In my current single player TDM game with high (or was it medium) AI bonus is going well. In fact I am only secoond place. keep in mind I have 4 conquered races in my federation each of which breathes a different atmosphere. Additionally the ONLY reason I am still alive as the second strongest empire is that I decided to leave tactical combat on for this game and there seem to be an abundance of nebula, asteroid, and black hole systems on my border. If not for these the much superior Jraenor would overwhelm me. They have about half of the Universe under their power and the other half is united with me against them, for the most part they have even stopped fighting each other. If things keep up like this I might actually see an AI get MEE for the first time. Has anyone else ever seen this happen?
PS: I have no idea how far ahead of me the AI #1 is. But I am exponentially stronger than anyone else and from the short time I had a trade treaty with this guy so was he with about a two times greater than me margin.
PPS: I recently used intel to subvert some of his ships. One of them was in a massively scary fleet that happily was on the far end of the universe from me.
PPPS: Note that I am handicapping myself in a few ways. No mines or satellites for static WP defense for instance. Though if things keep up I may change that. Specially since in that fleet of his he had PD and Mine sweeper ships along with carriers and mixed weaponry on mixed hulls. Compliments to whoever altered the TDM races.
