Terran AI works poorly in large maps

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I like to play gigantic galaxies with abundant planets. Now some AI's like the Arceans and Iconians are incredible in these maps and dominate. The rest are decent and can grab about half what the Arceans and Iconians can. The Terran AI is dismal in large galaxies. In a recent game I played where everyone was bright and the Terran AI was gifted (full AI + econ) and the Terrans had an entire corner to themselves with a juicy class 26 planet close by around four years into the game all the other AI's have between 50-100 planets and have colonized everything around them. The Terrans have 20 and didnt colonize the class 26 until 3 years into the game even though it was only 2 parsecs fron Earth and they had colonized a class 5 or something right next to it about a year into the game. They also have many other good quality worlds around that they could easily colonize but for some reason haven't while the other AI's quickly grab them. I don't know about smaller galaxies but please look into the Terran AI's performance in huge and gigantic galaxies since it lags far behind the others.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
AI has been heavily modified in 1.1beta versions
are you running the latest beta or 1.0X ?

if you are running 1.0X I would suggest you wait for 1.1 final to be released
(because beta are often not completely stable versions)
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I am running the latest beta. I did play vs terran in a smaller map and got stomped at intelligent but all the games I play on gigantic they play much more poorly than the other AI's. In fact I started to play against the terrans rather than as the terrans due to the fact that Frogboy said he'd heavily modified it vs the others. From what I've seen here is my take on the AI's on huge/abundant (yes I like 500 habitable planets and no I dont spend hours managing I just set an initial build and forget it until its all built that works pretty well and cuts down a lot of time spent managing planets I mainly focus on 10-20 production worlds) anyway

Arceans- way overpowered I turn them off since they ruin the game
Iconians- Overpowered but not as much as Arceans they seem to be stopped by the other AI's
Torians- Very schizo sometimes as bad as Arceans other times middling
Drengin- Very good ai best of the middle
Korx- Good at expansion absolutely terrible at everything else
Altarian- Good at influence and expansion but truly pathetic military (which is WAD I guess)
Thalan- Dont meet them much but seem decent enough
Yor- Can be middling but most of the times they dont expand much but they arent as bad as the terran ai by a longshot
Terran- Dismal
Drath- Race I usually play so I dunno what their ai is like now

Note that this is playing at the bright lvl so the AI's except terran arent playing fully but they still stomp the terrans who are at full+ an econ bonus
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
may I suggest that you set all races to intelligent (no random options at all) ?
and cheat your way through it (cheating will allow you to really see how things are going for each race
and will allow you to not focus on yourself and still not be stomped badly)

as random judgement errors are thrown into the equation at lower difficulties it's quite difficult to draw conclusions on those ... (terrans may have been very very unlucky for example)