I am playing a game of 'accelerated start' on normal difficulty. I've noticed that every planet I've conquered lacks any manufacturing buildings. How the heck is the AI building anything? If they are buying all their buildings and ships how come I can't get away with that? Is the AI cheating or do they have really big treasuries? Maybe I just haven't found their production center planets yet. It is annoying conquering a world that I can't do anything with (I have a small treasury ).