Yep, I believe the CPU Usage feature is indeed the equivalent of that checkbox.
| Natural Abilities(What the hell does this one do?) |
Natural Abilities I believe will give them bonuses to (all?) stats such as Defense and the like over the player. The middle of the slider gives no bonuses.
| I thought these used to be tied to the difficulty setting of the AI but changing the AI difficulty doesnt seem to effect these sliders. |
This is intentional. Difficulty is separated, mostly, into Intelligence and "AI Cheats". Those two sliders are for adjusting that particular AI's "Cheats". I think eventually these two sliders will adjusted when you choose a difficulty over Tough, but I dunno.
| Also the 5 points they are given dont seem to be spent except for races that I had played previously. Does the AI spend these points when the game starts or are they simply wasted? |
No idea, but I always spend them for the AI, just to be safe.
| The aggression slider defaults to the middle for all races, shouldnt some races (like Drengin/Korath) be naturally more/less agressive? |
Each AI has its own little customized script (call it a "personality", if you want) that influences their decisions as well as these sliders. So... its likely that Drengin would be naturally more aggressive than a race with an equal Aggression slider setting.
Of course, from the description of the slider, it seems to only deal with the "expansion of their empire", whatever that means.
