Burgeronian

I have experienced this lack of AI expansion wth the TOA expansion but did not have the problem in Dreadlords. I have played several games with confirmation that all AI playsers were set to Challenging. In one game the Drengin and Alterins had this problem. Dregning maxed the orbit of thier two planets with conony ships but would not expant to the many unused planets right next to their home planet. The Alterians surendered to the drengin after a while due to

Monclova34 is partially correct but in the example given you would have to research Medium Scale Building before you could find out what is missing for your ship design. If I am trying to begin research on turn one of the game that will expidite my progress towards a specific design that is listed under a technology that is three layers deep in the tech tree, I do not have a list on turn one which tells me what to research first. If you are researching plasma weapons for example but you need a

I know that the tech tree descriptions give a list of ships that each research item makes progress towards but it would be nice to have a ship catalog of all the player designs. I have specific attack and defense designs for different stages of the game and I somtimes have difficulty identifying which technology is still not researched to access a specific ship design from a previous game. The catalog might list the information shown during ship design but it would also show what technologies