[geoschmo]

Barnacle, I totally agree with your ideas for AI diplomacy. They would be great if they could be implemented.

However I am curious sbout your assertion that single player is your only option since you are limited to only a turn now and then. It seems to me that would make you more likely to play against humans, not less likely.

The vast majority of PBEM and PBW games are exactly that, a turn now and then. Very few even attempt to play more than one turn a day, and 48 hour games are almost as common as 24 hour ones.

I am in the same siutaion as you in that I cannot sit for hours on end playing SEIV because of work and familiy responsibilities. But for me this limitation results in an inabilty to play long single player games against the AI. It doesn't typically interfere with the sporadic once a day or less nature of the average mulitplayer game.

Geoschmo