Bah, Need some kind of big flashy indicator that they did so. Also the worlds of the surrendering AI should turn over control to the faction they surrendered to.

You dont even have to take out their homeworld.  I was playing a huge(multi) 5 galaxies and the AI gave up even though they owned an entire galaxy....  Of course me and my ally did own all of 3 galaxies.

Iv'e actualy did it with Advent to using thier super weapon as well.

I don't suppose there is any way to keep them fighting to the bitter end is there? As it is on a lot of the games I play have locked teams. So the games will end with a whimper because the survivng members will surrender but the defeated teammates wont for some reason. So my games usually end up with me just bombing a bunch of planets that wont buld or destroying fleets that wont move.

Yeah I probably should have paid attention to the post in the first place, I missed that part.

   I'm seeing a similar, though slightly different, trait in the AI right now as well. Up until the most recent planet (asteroid, really, but whatever) I went after, the defending fleet would run home to the next planet in line, so to speak. I finally hit thier Homeworld, and the AI pulled a new strategy on me... it was Advent, so it made use of thier 'temporary invulnerability' powers from thier cap ships (the actual name escapes me - I'm more of a casual player) to basically keep every one of it's fleet from being damaged. There were six Capships of three different varieties, so I'm not sure which ones were pulling it, but it basically used it every time ANY of thier fleet so much as got it's paint scratched.

   I ended up pulling in every ship I had in my fleet, which with full tech development is quite substantial as I also had Large Fleets enabled, and even then after three hours of fighting IN THE SAME SYSTEM, none of thier Capships were so much as damaged, and my fleet basically spent the time just sitting there, wondering if the AI would come out to play eventually.

   Think 'Brave Sir Robin' using the mentality of a turtle. I KNOW they have other systems, the asteroid itself had already fallen to me (and most of the infrastructure was already built as well), and yet they still haven't pulled out... but neither will they fight. Can't imagine this should be possible for the Advent to basically play turtle like this, but there it is.

So what?  TEC player captures Advent shipyards and can build Advent ships?  I would actually like to see that in-game.  My Kodiaks would kick ass with Ilums beam-spamming from behind.

that would be cool, capturing the AI gear.

However I think you need to actually send ships to the planet you want to capture and dock or something.

That way other players who hear the AI has been defeated can race to take a cut, after all somebody may already be attacking from another angle when everything goes your colour.

Things like occupation take time.

As for the AI surrendering early, often this is good as it saves a shizza load of time when they have no out. However I think their should be other diplomacy options instead of surrender.. Like they should negotiate a peace treaty and become a vassal or annexed nation. Something like protection money that they can break from later. However it would make it hard to break from as it would allow the aggressor to build say defence and war factories in the vassals territory. That way you could save your friends from being enslaved.

Offcourse if the vassal attacks its new king their would be trouble, This would mean if u had a vassal you really would have to occupy territories.