I have waited 2 days but so far no answer. Let me restate my question:
SE4 Gold will support TCPIP and will otherwise add a couple of more gimmicks to an already very feature-rich game. However, I think I am not the only one to feel that the biggest disadvantage of SE4 in single-player is an AI that... well sucks (erratic diplomacy, bad pathing, bad choice of battle, bad "strategy",...)
So each time a new patch comes out, I am hungrily looking for significant AI improvements (except for one of the first patches in vain so far). The announcement of SE4 contains a claim of improvements to the AI. However, reading the history file in this threat, I can only find some very minor tweaking of minister behaviour. Is that all, or were there major AI improvements in 1.50 (the gold Version)? If yes, great, that would be a real addition to gaming fun. If no, oh well, buying SE4 gold is more of a charity (for a good and committed programmer and company, certainly) project than paying for value...
