Recently colonized a world only to forget I had left my Novalith cannon in the other star system on auto fire.Had the last AI on thier last world with no ships bombing them. I then donated 10,000 credits to them. The AI response? "Thank you, is there more where that came from?"
owned

large-single system 8 players:
i controlled over 75% of the map, 1 ai and 1 active guy stil fighting,
when suddenly AI responded that my economy was to sucky and he didnt want a trade alliance with me
"censored"
after that i happely made a draw with the other guy