in single player, after losing, the speed options become unavailable.
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In single player, if you are playing a game, and you lose, but want to see which AI wins... you have to watch on whatever speed it was on last, and you cant just speed up the game and watch it at "blazing" for example.
Also. being brought out before founding a colony..... You cant drop the colony to the planet. or at least the AI cant. Weirdness anyway.