yor bad colony spam

Hahah, yep.  The AI is rather limited in their strategic decisions right now.  Also, more tweaks to galaxy generation are coming, though "the time ion drives were discovered" doesn't really specify anything because you could go through the whole game without ever getting ion drives... Try different galaxy settings, like having extreme planets set higher than normal planets, it may be more to your liking.

1) the yor get a little more use out of marginal planets then other races they dont need to build farms and instead have a fixed population cap based on tech that may explain why they are targeting low quality worlds

2) the ai isint really in yet so even with #1 its probobly just colonizing uninhabited planets atm

3) i know the devs have said the ai doesn't cheat in this manner it may simply be playing the same way i do which is use colony ships as scouts i can see the stars i send my colony ships out to the edge of my range passing close to as many stars as feasible if i bump into a good quality planet ill colonize it if its acceptable i will send another colony ship from home and keep my first ship heading outwards 

Yeah the ai is dumb as dirt still, in every aspect.  I'd personally like to have each race have a cap on the lowest quality planet it will colonize.  Like, Yor will colonize down to level 5 planets, Altairans to Level 8, etc.

Well, at this point, if you don't like their colonization habits, you can buy all their colony ships for about 89 credits each.

Quoting Franco, reply 4

Well, at this point, if you don't like their colonization habits, you can buy all their colony ships for about 89 credits each.

Ugh

Anyone ever wondered who lives on a planet that has been settled by a colony ship bought from Yor? I mean suddenly robots get hungry Because you don't need to load population into already loaded colony ship...

Actually, I can in fact confirm that the AI *does* cheat - the AI knows where planets are without scouting and it's easy to confirm.

I was curious about the current state of the AI, so I turned on the AI using the command prompt (` key), then started a new game. The AI sent several colony ships straight to habitable planets deep in the fog of war. Cheater cheaters.

Based on the AI empire rate of expansion, I'm also deeply suspicious that the AI gets bonuses to population growth, income, etc. Bleh, hate it when AIs are programmed to cheat to be competitive...

you do know that the AI isnt in yet?

All we have at the moment is a placeholder

Yeah, I know the final AI isn't in, just a basic placeholder. I was curious to see its current state and whether it was the cheater type though.

"The Yor absolutely detest organic life. It is their long-term mission to exterminate all organic life where they find it. There is, however, one other irony -- the Precursors designed the Yor such that they would use as their main energy source the same thing as the Iconians. The Yor "eat" in a sense; they have farming of a sort."

The advantage of the Yor might be that they can settle on sub-standard planets (?).

The disadvantage of the Yor would be that they spend time and resources exterminating organic life where they find it.  If they run across a Class M planet "Garden of Eden", they would -- if GalWiki is accurate -- convert every hex to a sterile heap.   No life.  All the lizards and trees and meerkats would be eliminated one by one.  Such methodical eradication of "organic life where they find it"  might slow down their colonization.  Alternatively, they may opt for sterile worlds to start with, given that they would not have to waste time exterminating all organic life.  

Also, the new planet options that gain benevolence, pragmatic, or badness often involve organic life. Such encounters with organic life would result in only one option: exterminate it.   

They could make a planet colonized by a purchased colony ship be the race from which the ship was purchased, unless, of course, the new owner decides to space the current colonists aboard and pick up new colonists from the purchaser's worlds.