Was going to buy the game and then!

[Cainehill]

Not to mention that the ... insanity of the current AI mechanism essentially completely ruins the SP game for many of us. The way AI nations declare war on the human player, for no reason, while they're on the opposite side of the map with no contact, is ludicrous, especially when it happens even when the human player has the smallest, most backwards of nations (it'd be a little different if the human was in the lead and could possibly be perceived as a threat by the AI nation).

Add to this the way the AI gets to cheat by lobbing remote spells when they should have _no_ idea where the human player is, and you have a situation where it's way too frustrating to consider even a test game involving Caelum, Abyssia, Man, or other nations with easy access to seeking arrow, fires from afar, etc because even on a 300+ province map, you're getting mages killed remotely by turn 10 or 15.