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[quote who="GoaFan77" reply="6" id="3186367"]The reason defeated players sort of stay on the map is for team games. Think of what would happen if you were playing a competitive team game if you immediately got all the planets of a defeated player.[/quote] I get what you're saying. It still seems like there are other ways to handle this -- like the idea of a resistance used in other games. You wouldn't have to get all of the planets but they could be easier for anyone to

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Thanks Sakhari. I bet that's what is going on. I stand by the earlier comments though. It seems to me that more should happen if you manage to "decapitate" an opponent. I really did not appreciate making the big push to knock the first AI out and then finding that they weren't really knocked out in any meaningful sense.

I am relatively new at Rebellion, although I played Sins long ago. I was excited about the capital planet victory condition and I decided to try it out. I made a 5-player random map with 4 hard AIs as opponents. To set myself a goal I figured I would try for a capital planet victory against all of them. I also like the idea of a capital planet victory because I find the planet-by-planet nutcracking to be tedious at times. The First AI was in my star system and he