This needs to be fixed for 1.01 proper, as it probably affects all mods too!

Ah - that explains something I observed a while ago. I had been playing fine and dandy, but then did something stupid and had to reload a saved game from five turns previous or so. When I did, I got the 'the AI completed the Great Mill' or something message; on the original go-through I'm quite certain that that had not occurred and I was a little confused as to why it happened after loading. This explains that.

This was on Easy (hey, it was my first actual attempt at playing the game).

I certainly hope so and this DOESN'T need to be fixed at all. WAD! This will teach those save scummers lol and a perfect balance to keep the AI fairly balanced vs the player.

I've seen an AI city pop five buildings in a single turn.  On Novice at turn 26.  Two other cities popped a couple of buildings at the same time.

And 2 more buildings were popped in the original city on turn 32.  I didn't bother to check the others but quit instead.  Sort of spoilt my day actually...

Edit: I'm sick of the whole savescumming tirade but to be clear-

 It did not happen to me with reloading but when I loaded up a save from the previous night and played on to the next turn for the first time.

edit: double post magic

I hope YOU'RE kidding. Real men play the game in a single sitting. And if the game crashes, it's your own fault for having a crappy computer stuffed with bloatware. RESTART!

Just loaded up my latest game on 1.0 I had been playing. Played about 100 turns earlier this morning. Saved and exited to take a shower. Logged back in and next turn 2 wonder complete messages from the other civs. 

Loaded up the cheat command and ctrl u. Looked at all the cities around the world. Most of them had 1-4 buildings queued up. Click next turn, and everything in every queue in the world that wasn't a unit completed. 

Certainly explains why my score / pop / production keep falling further and further behind every time i quit and come back to play (usually play 20-50 turns at a time since I have two kids, on only a newborn). 

Yeah, just checked and after a load all AI buildings are completed, don't really feel like playing now knowing that each time I load my game after a session the AI gets free buildings... ah ignorance is bliss!

Anybody know if its a line I can change in some file that's causing this, dont feel like waiting for a patch for this Bug the rest I can live with for now.

The AI cheats really bad. Been playing a default normal game and the AI regularly insta-builds buildings and armies at little to no cost to itself. One turn I'm leading the faction power rankings and the next the AI is suddenly kicking in my door and proclaiming "I'm here to chew salted pork and kick ass...and I'm all out of salted pork". The AI sends endless waves of armies and eventually wins through attrition. It's killing my enjoyment of the game. I don't mind losing but this is ridiculous.

I'm not new to 4x games either. Played Civ, GalCiv, Age of wonders etc... maybe I just don't understand the ins and out of the game yet, but my history logs at the end of the game show that the AI suddenly out paces me by a large margin in only a few turns. Even if I am giving them the smack down.

It's also inconsistent as sometimes the AI seems brain dead. For example the yithril in one game had almost 3x the faction power as the next highest person on the list, but the next game they were dead last and fairly flat in all their graphs. basically the ai is all over the place and very inconsistent.

Hopefully this will all get tuned up over the month into something more enjoyable as the game seems fun when it's coming together. Also it was my understanding that in Stardocks games that "normal" was the ai playing it's best without cheating.

Here's the save game I mentioned above in case you are still trying to reproduce. This is running version 1.0

https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0B4CeKgM0pvuyd2l0ZmRSTXdqN3M/edit?pli=1

I don't think that it is a rushing thing at all since the AI can pop multiple buildings in a city in a single turn.  Basically every building in the queue.

As a player, at least, I can only rush one item per production queue per turn.

Also there is never any gold deducted from the AI's treasury.

It cant be rushing because the units in the building queue correctly stay there disregarding queue order, its just all the building improvements that get built!

 Wow  

I'm starting to understand why people felt cheated by the AI. I save/load a lot when gaming, this and all the corrupt saves reports are major deal breakers for me. Hope they get fixed.