I've also noticed that one civ that I set to aggressive went to war with me and all of a sudden made peace and was neutral. Now I don't know if this is a huge leap or it's realistic cause it never happened to me before.

Well, I hate replying to my own post, but the opponents are definitely reverting to default AI profiles. The drengin, whom I had switched over to "Super-Warrior" as I dislike the "Super-Dominator" ability, are still getting loads of "Super-Dominator-Free-Experience-For-Any-Half-Decent-Ship-Lets-Slow-Down-The-Game-To-A-Crawl Corvettes".

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OK, I just confirmed part of what you're seeing. I made a customized race called the Ur'Quan and set all their stats and made them a member of the War Party. When I played in a test game I set cheat parameters so I could see their stats. Instead of being a War Party group, they were Federalists. I went back out and confirmed my custom race was saved properly (they were). I also went and tested the Sentient Data Network, and though they are Technologists in their settings, last game they were War Party instead.

I'll let Stardock know about this, and ask them to read the thread.

As I noted on other threads, the AI picks its own party and spends its own unused ability points. Those two particular things changing is not a bug. Counterintuitive perhaps, when you have the option to futilely set them, but not a bug.

Wait...so are you saying, the much vaunted ability to "create your own opponents" in DA is actually a waste of time? It doesnt matter what abilities you pick for them, they are going to pick their own anyways?

I haven't checked if the AI will re-pick abilities if you've spent all the points already, I only know from my own experience that they do appear to pick abilities when you set none at all.

I'd probably chalk the political parties being overriden myself as a holdover from the DL behavior. AIs have always picked their own parties (even in DL), but now that you have the option to set it yourself in-game, this behavior makes a lot less sense (but still some, since you don't always set it manually). The question then is, how can the AI know whether it should pick for itself or not? Might have to see if the devs could add a checkbox to let the AI pick or force it to use what it's given.