I was trying to create a new faction for my own entertainment, and an idea came to my mind.  In my custom faction, I was duplicating the food generating tech in the Adventure tree, so that when I researched it, three food tiles would spawn and the tech was repeatable.  It was entertaining to slowly fill the terrain around me with food tiles.  [e digicons]:grin:[/e]

But my thought was, how about creating a custom faction specifically for the AI to use that had techs like these?  Techs that gave them a unique advantage, but not technically a "cheating" advantage (although it could be argued).  It doesn't have to be as crazy as a three food spawning tech like mine, but it can be as simple as recreating their tech tree to have a unique tech tree that may be more beneficial to them.  Factions are planned to have their own tech tree anyway, right?

I realize that people probably want to play against an AI that plays by the rules, ie, the same rules as the player and play well instead of a "cheating" one, but I hope this suggestion might be a little helpful to those who want a different challenge.