I just played elemental version 1.01. I found the ai to be very brainless when it comes to founding cities no matter what the difficulty level.
If they can't even found a good starting city they may as well be game over for them. The ai didn't build their city close to fertile lands so they city couldn't expend and their citizen are maxed to 10 for over 200 turns. I took out 8 Ridiculous level AI under 50 turns since they can't even do much against my one summon imp or familiar....
My screen 80% of the time become mess up when I'm in the main menu, creating a custom game or creating a sovereign. my whole display become so mess up as if the display connector is loosen and didn't connect tightly to the display port. I'm not sure if anyone else is having this problem, I'm using a XFX 8600GT