Even so, the AI needs to build a factory before it builds anything else. I usually get max espionage and look at their planets and they are almost always building the terraforming tiles first. |
He did, look in the upper left corner.
Maybe the AI was concentrating on Research while these were being built, or military for that matter, or didn't have the cash to build. Doesn't mean its bad planetary development, just means you bought several structures instead of waiting. Have you ever looked at the build times for a factory? Sometimes it takes 25-35 weeks. Thats why players buy their first factory on many if not most or ALL of their planets, to jumpstart production.
What AI level were you playing, that would also show how (in)efficient the AI was in building.
Point is, this isn't obviously a real good example of poor AI without knowing more about it. An obvious example of poor AI would be a starport built on a 700% manufacturing tile.
Cheers,
Reaver