i just finished a very fun FFA game, was 6 people, 2 left soon after the game started so we had 2 ai floating around.  about midway through the game i noticed both ai were focused solely on me, ignoring each other and everything else, it wasnt too big a deal, i lost a couple outlying asteroids but nothing serious, and my cap ships were getting good xp, however, while i was defending my edges against one particularly large attack i suddenly get a huge fleet from one of the players flying in from the other side and he takes out 3 planets before i can get my first response to him.  he later told me he had allied with both ai's and had ordered them to attack me and he timed and planned his attack to coincide with theirs.

now that sounded pretty cool, i know that AI in multiplayer do offer you missions to do to get rep with them, but how do you order them to attack someone, i havnt seen that anywhere in the diplomacy screen, either way it was a pretty nice tactic, i just figured both ai's didnt like me for some reason, i didnt think they had someone manipulating them.