I was trying to kill the PP AI because it kept spamming packets at my new colonies and killing them

the AI will just keep spamming nubs at uninhabitated worlds to try and kill the 1 nubian i have there so that they can colonize it. The AI will never get bored of doing this but I will get bored of having to send 1 ship to every single world and replacing them constantly to stop the colonizer spam.

Im not finding normal stargates to be much of a help really, given that bombers/loaded freighters automatically prevent you from using them and you need those to take out enemy worlds.

beams actually take more resources than torps/missiles

A orbital fort with a mass driver is pretty cheap and the AI will just keep re-building them so you need to leave fleets on EVERY single one of his worlds to stop them from rebuilding it.

A single frigate with 3x mine dispenser 50s costs about 100 resources when you can first build them, and only dispenses 150 mines a year, which is easily swept away by a single destroyer with beams. Its not cost effective by any means.

Manually intercepting every AI fleet in range will drive you crazy because the AI will spam dozens of 1 ship fleets at you

Even a super mine layer that can lay 4k+ mines a year is easily negated by a beam cruiser that is a fraction the price of the mine layer.

Im not racing with them in the first place because those arent worlds i can colonize anyway...

The game doesnt seem to allow you to contro lwhere the center of the minefield is.

5 turns of factory buildinng still leaves you with insufficient resources to start terraforming. Thats with HP settings of 1 res/2500 pop and 15/9/25.

Yes, but i meant for a race that uses factories. For example the planet is at -5%, when do you try to terraform it to green status?

it would have been great if the help files had said "decrease inaccuracy" instead of increasing accuracy...