GOLD A.I. vs old A.I.

[steveh11]

OK, this is just by tuppenceworth of ramblings:
Poor me, I play exclusively single-player, i.e. against the AI. I still have enourmous fun, since I can set up the game to give me a "fun-and-winnable" game, in much the same way as Civ and it's siblings do.
I have installed - and removed - a couple of mods, and gone back to the 'vanilla' game. Use of the mod-picker *may* make using these simpler, so I may have another play-around with them.
As a single-user only player, PBW, PBEM and TCP/IP are unnecessary frill *for me*. A more interesting AI is much more in my interest. I gather it's not really been tackled, but nevertheless I'll probably get the Gold Version - eventually. EUII will get it first.
Steve.