JMayer70: I already guess that minor factions cannot have any of their assets stolen from them due to high influence - their planets definately won't subvert, but it what about their asteroid mines won't subvert niether. Normally these are very easy to steal from major races, but minor races asteroid mines also seem immune to influence. I assume this is as intended?

Then there are starbases. I'm sure I saw one switch sides from one AI to another AI player due to influence, but try as I might even with several influence starbases of my own, I just cannot capture any starbases (major race or minor) through high influence. There is also no information given (unlike as with planets and asteroid mines) as to how much influence is affecting starbases. So, are starbases also immune to influence factors?

As for minor races again, you can get up to "advanced" level espionage stages with them, just like with the major races, but what is the point? You can't view their planets at all even if when you do get to "High / Advanced"! I think that's a little bug that's been missed all these years! Also many of the empire statistics you can easily see once you've even got to "Medium" stages with major races, just cannot be viewed anywhere with the minor no matter how high an espionage level you get. "Number of ships" is one example. Minor races never appear on any of the various graphs and bar charts neither. I think more functionality should added for minor races!

Do minor races ever, under any circumstances, get to have more than one planet? I gave one several fully loaded troopships, but they never used them, even when a colony of a race they were at war with was undefended, and they had these troopships right on top it, they never even attempted to use them.