I decided to build nothign but pioneers to start a game just 30 minutes ago. I expanded and maybe 20-25 turns elapsed. During this time I think I was able to build 3-4 pioneers and I was working on a monument. I ran into the kraxis. I went directly for the first city I saw and it had 77 population vs my 63, it had approximately 8 buildings built in it. It became very obvious to me that the computer is given a major advantage over me and i'm playing on easy ffs. Oh it gets better. They had built 4 outposts, 2 miltia units (not the kind you get for free, and their second city had 35 population. My second city had 11 population and was working on the first building still.

Oh it gets even better. Emperor kraxis had 19 attack and 21 defense already. I understand he gets bonuses defensively, but where the hell did he get gear like that this early in the game.

Why is the computer getting such major advantages over the player? Why aren't they playing the same game I am? This is on easy.

In another game I ran into an altar player that had 240,000 gold and the gold per turn they were making was 12,000. This was revealed in the diplomacy window. Have you even bothered to play the game your developing? How are we supposed to give feedback when these kinds of things are going on?