an idea for AI, Expansion and Multiplayer threads.

How about the crazy idea of an expansion opening up the AI interface. Brad is always talking about tweaking the numbers for the various AI’s. Why not open it up and let people tweak the AI in an online "Gal Civ Manager" sort of way.

The idea being tweak your AI and set it up on-line against other tweaked AI’s. The game is then played out from a distance. Maybe allowing some fine-tuning to the parameters as the game progressed. That way people would be refining the AI continually to see what worked best.

What is more they could act as a library for players to download for the single player game.

If nothing else, it would be interesting and insightful to see what numbers Brad could play with. None of it is scripted but there are obviously a lot of parameters which need balancing to enable the AI to act as a human would.

This is probably a complete non-starter because of how the game is structured but it may be interesting to build it in as a concept for GalCiv3.