[raynor]

I just loaded up my turn 162 med bonus game with all of the TDM races and switched them all to human control. I must say that I'm extremely happy with ALL of the races. Their choices for what to build on a planet are EXCELLENT. There is about a one thousand percent improvement over the previous Version of the game. The computer made such poor choices of what to build on planets in 1.19 that it needed at least three times as many planets to equal my production. Now, that is no longer the case. A human player is still going to make much better choices. But I think the computer is doing much, much better.

Regarding the computer planets with fewer than the max facilities: Is it possible that they AI only colonized these planets 'N' turns ago and just hasn't had a chance yet to fill them with facilities?

The computer doesn't put anything in the construction queue until it processes its turn; unless it is building a facility that takes longer than one turn, you won't see it building anything when you switch to human control. Could you please see if maybe that's the case? I hope that it is! Please, make note of which planets have fewer than the max faciliites. Then, after you switch them back to computer control, let three of four turns go by before you switch them back to human control. I hope they will have built more facilities on those planets.