[Dion]

Interesting comments and I thank you all. From my experience, the AI plays good, in fact quite good at times, but it's so easy to predict, it's just a machine. Maybe I should look into playing by email instead, then I'll get some real competition, against real people! I've played so many games against the AI, I probably picked up all sorts of bad habits. A human player will probably kill me.

I never played with timed objectives. That sounds interesting.