Just finished a really disappointing game. It didnt take to long because the AI just didnt seem to kick in and I kept playing just to see if it ever would.
My settings were Huge/Abundant Everything/Painfull with no restrictions on the AI intel/No Tech Trading/Max AI and Minor Races/Normal Research
I had a good initial setup and progressed quickly through the colony rush stage. I noticed that the AI just was not expanding. I kept playing but it was obvious that something was not kicking in. Occasionally you will find that one AI or another doesnt seem to do much but this was pretty much all the AI's were sitting on their thumbs
They were not generating ships for expansion or doing any but the very basic builds on planets.
Just for kicks I did a econ treaty with one of the AI's and checked it later on. It was storing all the profits from what I could tell. It had a bankroll of close to 200000 but yet didnt have more then one or two ships. No combat just a couple mining ships.
I kept playing just to see what would happen rolling through the turns without really doing that much except sending out colony ships. Even when I started attacking the various AI's they would not make the first fighter to combat me. After a year or so I finally saw the AI produce a defender that had 0's straigh across the board. To give you an idea I was already with black hole technology, max warp, logistics, etc.
I doublechecked my settings as I was thinking I might have set it up for cakewalk by mistake but its at painfull.
Anyone else see this sort of effect?
