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When I play a game of GalCiv, inevitably at least one of the AI's will get weapon tech's super fast, like Laser I, II, III, and IV after six months or so of game time. That's barely enough time for me to get to level one of a weapon. How is this possible? I play on 'tough', so the AI shouldn't be getting bonuses or anything...
If you watch your graphs you will see the AI focus everything on research from time to time. Same goes for industrial production.
You could do the same thing, and achieve the same result.
The thing is, we human players tend to set our sliders and then forget about it for a long while. But the AI sometimes will change those settings every turn or two, depending on what they want in the near term.
Try it sometime. Set both production and research values to 100% (so social and military spending are at 0%) and see how quickly you can research a tech. If you have several factories and labs, you might research 1 or more techs (along the same branch, of course) every turn.
One thing to consider...
I have found that if I set research to 0%, a crash is likely. So I never set it below 1%.
The same might be true for the other sliders.
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I may try that...