I have not seen a single defeated empire retire.
Right now I am about 2/3 done with a gigantic game and enemy empires will not surrender.
I have 400+ planets and some of my enemies have less than 5 planets and 0 ships and they will not surrender. They don't surrender to me or to their neigboring nations.
I am just wondering if this is unique to my experience?
I now realize that I have not seen a single surrender in any of my DL games.
- Livonya
PS: Also, have you noticed that the number of enemy spies increases each time you load a game? I have had a could of turns that took more than 1 hour to complete, but had to save and finish later. Each time I load the number of enemy spies on my planets increases even though I am still on the same turn of the game.