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I appologize if I made an impression that I do not like SE IV AI or consider it inferior to any other computer game. On the contrary, my major point was that in contrast to almost any other TBS game SE IV DOES NOT CHEAT. It plays exactly by same rules as human player, excpet that you can set up challenge by giving it a production/research bonus, which I personally do not consider as AI cheating. IMHO, the good example of AI cheating is MoM at impossible level: Every time I clear a node, it works as a night lamp for all magic spirits butterflies. Every single AI sends it representive even if it was on the opposite side of the world and supposedly never ever even know about this node existence !! Nothing even remotely close exist in SE IV. It has an honest, non-cheating AI. Unfortunately, it needs some numerical boost to kick your a..., and so be it !

A lot of efforts have been made to optimize SE AI research and in fact almost every race in TDM-ModPack follows its own unique path. What I refered to was that when you start the new game, AI will repeat itself, but it is propriety of your computer architecture itself and not SE IV.