It could just be co-incidence, but a number of times now i have observed something interesting about AI behavior.....
You know how the AI often seems to ignore nice worlds away from the players area.... and the game can be very advanced and it still ignores them....
Well strangely, whenever i finally decide to send a colonizer there, all of a sudden the AI wakes up and grabs those worlds before i get there? Its as if the AI somehow knows my colonizer is heading there and is reacting to that?
I wonder if i reloaded an old saved game before dispatching my colonizer, would the AI have still grabbed those worlds just the same or continued to ignore them?