Increasing AI difficulty

[Suicide Junkie]

The best way to increase the difficulty is to replace the AIs with humans on the PlayByWeb server

http://seiv.pbw.cc

[Q]

I made the same observation: The AI is extremely cautious or reluctant to attack if he is not absolutely sure to win the combat. And this seems to be true no matter what mod you use. Even in the AI team setting, where I am the only enemy, mighty AI fleets that could wipe out my warp defences stay just forever motionsless without attacking.
A human player would sacrifice one fleet to destroy the defences and then come back with another fleet to attack the colonies.
That should be one important point to improve in SE V.

[Xrati]

Your AI would have to be very complex to assess the attack potential of its fleet and the composition of the defense fleet. A human will just go on an impulse to attack knowing that the attack will weaken the defenses and allow future attacks to be more successful. Basically, a human will take a chance where the computer will look for certain victory.