You could try the TDM-Modpack. It was made a while ago by some very talented modders who tweaked the AI's to get the most of them. It makes them...quite a bit more difficult in my experience. Especially play against the United Flora Empire or the Tessellate. You can get it
here.
Enjoy and welcome to the forums!
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Nosral Confederacy (a shipset based upon the Phong) and the
Tyrellian Imperium, an organic looking shipset I created! (The Nosral are the better of the two [img]/threads/images/Graemlins/Grin.gif[/img] )