Some suggestions for improving SP (and perhaps to a lesser degree MP)

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OK.
Taqwus, +/- gold and gems would be a neat idea too. Is all of this hard to do?
I think one could at least encourage the AI to build fortresses with a simple algorithm. Forget indy troops, bottlenecks, etc. for the time being and let the AI at least try to build 1 simply for the gold, the supply, and the chance to build more troops. I am sick of fighting starving AI troops!
But it seems this is hard to do. Thanks for informing me Wauthan about the difficulty in programming, I didnt know that. That is too bad, since I sort of like the maps and the unmodded games, but I will give it a whirl....