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Originally posted by raynor:
I don't think the AI gets extra resources as part of the bonus level. Rather, I think they get a faster production rate. An easy way to test this is to start a high bonus and high tech game. Take control of an AI player and start building a ship with a SM component. Shift control back to the computer for a couple of turns. When you take control of the empire again, you should see that the ship has much less time until completion than you would have expected.
They do seem to get a bonus for their Research and Intel production. At least checking on one of my AI's on low bonus shows that under the research and intel project allocation screens they are getting twice as many points as listed on their score. It doesn't seem like their getting any resource bonuses though. The amount listed under score seems to be match up with the amount listed on empire summary. Each individual colony seems to be producing the same as a player colony would. I check a 99% mineral world which had two mineral extractor III's on it, with a 5% population bonus and 20% happiness bonus, it was producing about 2.3k worth of minerals.