Help: Early Game Yor Producing 1 frigate per turn at planet?

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I'm in a early game, medium map, all set at genius.

The Yor have 2 worlds, and are producing 1 frigate per turn at one of them, PQ=18. The Planet is spending 69bc per turn, and my spys say the total Yor allocation is 14bc military, 60bc social, and 96bc research. The Yor's total cash balance is staying constant at around 1200bc. They just popped out frigate #6- there is no way this is normal... :notsure:

Is there some known random event that is driving this, or is this some kind of bug?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
It could be that they are "Buying" these ships, just like you can at the production prompt, where you have the option of getting it really quickly for way more than it should really cost. I have seen the same effect you are talking about many times, I just always make sure I can overwhelm ANY force prior to getting my invasion forces into range.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
More, they could also used some bribes from others races to get enough cash to rush buy the frigate without impacting negatively their treasury.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
You don't say what level of difficulty, but the higher the level of difficulty, the more "cheats" the AI employ so that they can do things that you never could by following the rules. It may be that their production rate is high enough at the difficulty you are playing that they can crank out a ship per turn with the same cost it would take you over several turns.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
You don't say what level of difficulty, but the higher the level of difficulty, the more "cheats" the AI employ so that they can do things that you never could by following the rules
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This is only true at the two highest levels of difficulty. At normal difficulty levels (which is to say, anything below Genius) the AI is penalized in one or more ways.

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