Frogboy

Ouch you scared me, first word i saw was "court" while seeing the thumbnail, it didn't sound to be a good news.. rofl

sounds like you have created a very smart UI.  Not everyone realizes that frivolous lawsuits are often incredibly profitable, and detrimental to your opponent.  Next thing you know it will be applying for welfare.  Perhaps it's time to add <Ethics></Ethics> to the xml UI file?

No more drinking before breakfast Brad....

I had never, ever thought of it from that standpoint.

I imagine there is also a difficulty in managing the A.I. for the wide spectrum of skill levels among customers.  What is difficult for the average player is a piece of cake for some who pore over every detail and min-max every facet of the game.   Some folks attempt to play each turn to perfection and some (me) just want to roam around and do cool stuff.  While difficulty levels or sliders and disabling/enabling features certainly come into play, managing the A.I. to accommodate all of these factors must be a herculean task.  At what level do you let the A.I. cheat if at all?  Will your hardcore/loyal customers be happy with or not happy with your decision?  How are you sure you are making "the mostest funnest" game?  The openness of the Beta program and receptiveness to customer feedback probably answers a ton of these questions.  Also, you guys kinda know how to make games.

Based on all that, I fully expect this to be the mostest funnest game ever.

Just coming up with everything that goes into it makes me tired and then there is all the stuff I have no idea about (that list is probably immense)... I just don't know how you guys do it.  Now I need an Advil. 

Can you post a larger image, so we can read the complaint? Or it's confidential?

Be sure to leave that stuff in for modders who will want to use it for their campaigns! We can't rewrite the C code ourselves. : ) We have no shame about cheating.

The AI in Elemental is a Turing test?

I concurr.  

Or maybe this world is round.

For "general direction they should explore",  there maybe another factor you want to tinker; which direction the 1st (2nd, 3rd...)  opponent scout the AI first met.    Or when it meet the 1st opponent city, will the AI consider rushing it (or take up a protective stance instead)?   Or if the first opponent scout is an opponent Sov, does the AI think about to assassinate him when he is relatively alone?  

At in the beginning of the game, make the AI act like how a human act.    Again, what I've mentioned is just one of the play style human uses,  I recalled AI will have different personalities so this kind of aggressive play will only be deployed by some of the AI personality, if not the majority.

Right now the AI is still an idiot.

Woohoo!! I have a chance

Man, I even fail at quoting on this board.  See, I need the handicap.

If you say such things, there might be another complaint against you 

I'm assuming there is nothing we can do to help the AI along ? 

Man does that mean the game is going to get delayed? If that is the case, I can take care that the A.I. never reaches the courthouse if you know what I mean.