[Bakunine]

Isn´t the problem that the MM want to make a AI that doesn´t cheat?
Well if he does that I think he will make history.
Until know I never played a 4X in which the AI doesn´t cheat at least in the higher levels.
I´ve seen here Posts saying that if computers can beat man in chess than it would be "easy" to beat us in a game like this.

1- Chess rules contain little number of variables. SE4 contains thousands.

2-Others say we would need a Deep Blue to run the game to make the AI really clever. Well I think that there´s nobody here, unless there´s here a really good chess player that would win a chess game in my old 48K Spectrum.

Others (very few) complain that they were fooled and bought a incomplete game. Well it was easy to avoid that.
Download the demo (a really good to evaluate tool since it´s not a tutorial, it´s not a mission, it´s a game with some limitacions) and try it.

Being a somekind of BetaTester isn't in my wishes but to many who bought the game is. So it's a think that everyone should respect.

I only started contact with SE series in SE4 and by seeing that MM released the game earlier by request of the long time Users only show the respect he as for the long time supporters (one think that is very rare). In a purely marketing and bussiness way of view it would be much more profitable to wait a few months and launch a much more perfect game.