If you use circuit, people will play like they're against circuit, ignore the inevitable resign fortress the AI builds, and kill your human ally repeatedly

dyth68, I'm curious, how would you see the situation turning around at the point of resign?

IIRC there were three small forces rotating around the map to shut down expansion efforts. I think I'd done an okay job of shutting down rebuild efforts and killing Sortale's constructors, even if I was slow on recapturing. Was there anything that could have turned the situation around that I'd missed?

Would there be anything I could have done differently (recapturing aside) to better secure our position?