What are exit conitions for an Unfair AI?

Strange, I've never seen anything like this. Last Unfair AI I played against held on until the bitter end--his Home "Planet" was an asteroid by the end.

It's been happening in almost every game I play now. Granted, it usually only happens when they are down to 2 or 3 planets left, this was an extreme case. Anyone have any ideas? Perhaps I could get a replay of that particular game.

Additonally, it usually happens after I have decimated their fleets/capital ships, although on one occasion it happened after I retreated out of a computers home system and he still had over half of his fleet remaining.

Probably their planets got neutralized by influence.

Probably not, since they were still very much under their own. So much their own that in one case, after he had been eliminated, I had to station 4 capital ships over a planet for over 30 minutes to be able to colonize it.

I suppose the part of the original post that said he had only lost a single planet was in someway unclear. What I meant was, he had only lost one planet, and he still had five planets under his control.

the AI can and will surrender when it decides it's had enough. I usually find this happens much later than i'de like. Interesting that it's happening sooner to you. You must really be getting ahead of them before coming with the stompy stompy.

I'm sure if you just hit Keep Playing after it gives up you can keep batting it around like a cat with an injured mouse. And i think it will keep trying to fight, it won't just like there like my ex-girlfriend.

^damn, can't edit.

That should be:
It won't just LIE there like my ex-girlfriend.

Interesting, not terribly surprising but good to have it confirmed by another person. And really, they do just lie there. They don't move their fleets around or build new ships. I just send one of my weak fleets after them so they can get experience.