what happens when a Planet is Depleted?

Over-colonization is ruining my current game. I colonized only 7 systems and over-colonization is already triggered. I did an extensive search and I found that I need Autonomous Administration to be built in a system that provides a cap of only one extra system. I however need colony development 4 to build this building. That however needs colony development 3 and 2. This requires lots of luxury resources, namely 125*3+75*2+25 (if I am not wrong with the numbers), namely 550 different resources. This is re...

horatio AI. they are somewhat strong at this

I have seen this in several playthroughs. Basically, the types of luxury resources are limited to a couple. This makes the game unplayable and one just notices this after enough expansion! I played the current game for a few hours and just noticed that so I have to restart which is very annoying. I was wondering if you have the same problem and if there is a fix for this....

What is the proper way to use projectile weapons? I went through a lot of reading and I really cant think of a reason why kinetic would be better than beam/laser weaponry mainly due to range, flak, and delay. - Cross fire makes long range a much more common than other range regardless of tactic cards... -This renders pure slug unrealistic... - And the only long range projectile weapons (missiles/bombers) are often countered by flak and has a delay... The delay makes them a bit worse for match ups as enem...