House Rules against the AI

[JonBrave]

I'm deliberately reviving this thread!

When I first joined this forum, I tried to follow this guy's advice:

Originally Posted by Makinus

I nearly exclusively play single player against the AI and i use some House Rules to give a "fair chance" to the AI, i´ll post my house rules here and i´m curious to other house hules:

3. Only 1 researcher per lab.

And later he confirms:

Originally Posted by Makinus

My major gripe with the AI is that it´s incapable of keeping up in the research curve... it simply does not research fast enough.... thats the reason of my house rule of 1 researcher per lab... it´s the only way for the AI to keep up...

Now I'm still a simpleton a while on, and this is depressing. I don't know who this Makinus is, but has anybody actually tried beating some (Impossible) AIs with restriction of you can only have 1 researcher per lab all game? Because this has haunted me, I certainly couldn't achieve it...