Kanerix

Are the harder AIs more difficult to scare?

Well I basically had the fleet cap... in a single fleet. Plus all the capitals. Did I miss a message somewhere though about them surrendering? It was just so unexpected... So assuming I'm playing with players or an AI that doesn't surrender, what are the victory conditions for the game?

[e digicons]o_O[/e] I scared them to death? That is very... unsatisfying...

I've been playing this game for about a week now, off and on. It's a Huge map, 5 stars, and about 5 AIs and myself playing as TEC. I had fully researched everything, and two star systems all to myself. I start bringing my Big Fleet of Ultimate Doom around to mop of the rest of the AI. I'm about two thirds of the way through a third star system, with three enemy AI left and a friendly AI, when BAM! I won the game. I still had two full star systems left to conquer. The friendly AI didn't do any