OK -- I used CTRL-N quite a bit until I get a good galaxy to start in... I've noticed this before - but this is the first time it's happened in a game I want to salvage...
The AI does NOTHING - no building, no researching, no exploring -- nothing. I've played about 40 turns, and while I'm tucked in a corner and have made no contact - the 9 AI 'spheres of influence' are still perfectly round, they definitely have colonized no further worlds... and I've gotten NO indications of galactic wonders (and playing masochistic - SOMEONE should have been something by now). I've tried restarting from a saved game (I almost always save promising looking galaxies on turn 1 for possible later play if it turns out to be a fun map) - but still no AI action.
#1 - I think I had seen this reported before - but searches turn up nothing... Is this a known issue?
#2 - Is there any way to salve this game? Is there something I can change in the saved game file? I really would like to play the galaxy I generated...