Thanks for working on Sins 2 and especially its AI.
I played a brand new match today vs 1 aggressive Hard AI on the small map Lithor Cluster for about 2 hours where i just built up my 10 planets while the AI did whatever it wanted with its 10 planets, and occasionally it attacked my side of the map.
Towards the end of the match i just steam-rolled over the AI who has not built any defenses and had almost no orbital structures and was overall quite weak.
The post game score board was very telling and quite shocking, revealing that the AI has pretty much stopped developing their empire, perhaps even at the 20 minute mark of the nearly 140 minute match.
The AI did not upgrade the Logistics on their 10 planets - at minute 20 it had a total of 3 logistic upgrades (i had 4) and at 129 minutes it had only 5 logistic slot upgrades across its entire empire (i had 43).
No wonder it can not do anything when its planets literally have no Logistic upgrades for 130+ minutes!
As expected from above it was already using only 11 orbital logistic building slots at minute 20 (i had 21 used) , and at minute 130 the AI used only 16 orbital logistic building slots (i was using 137).
It had spent a COLOSSAL amount of money on the market (in 130 minutes i spent 6,000 credits on the market while the AI spent 70,000).
It has done zero planet Surveying in the two+ hour match (not a single planet survey, while i did 26).
It had done 4 Mining upgrades at minute 6 , and at minute 128 it had upgraded a total of 6 planets for Mining (i did 35).
No wonder it had to spend so much money on the market when it is refusing to upgrade Mining on any of its planets!
At minute 55 it had completed 20 Research, and at minute 136 it had completed 21 research (only one more research in over 60 minutes).
At minute 30 it had 4 military labs, and at minute 126 it still had the same 4 military labs - it did not build a single new military lab.
Overall this is honestly just tragic, that the hardest AI (without cheats) is incapable of interacting with core game mechanics like the Planet Logistic Slots and Planet Mining upgrades and Planet Surveying and building orbital structures...
Please look into these issues and fix the AI.
Here are the images and the save game.
https://limewire.com/d/D5AoI#ZJDW24lm0p
