[Gandalf Parker]

The AI is one long sequential run. To improve it would take many many IF statements.

To fix it to a more updated tree-structured AI would take a major rewrite of the code which is not going to happen.

So we are left with what is at our disposal. We have found game settings (such as resources and indepts) that improve the AI. We have found MAP commands which improve the AI. And we have MODDING which can improve the AI. The maximum of all of these tends to me more AI than even the solo lovers can wear out.

Its still not equal to a Human player in an MP game that goes all the way to EndGame. But for a thread that started out asking if the AI was adequate to Solo play, it is an answer.
IMHO of course.