Sapphiron

A problem I've noticed with the AI is that they seem to give up after a while. I think that this is because of its inability to assess the situation. For example, if you beat down a player's fleet, he's probably going to spend the next few minutes focusing on rebuilding his fleet and ramping up his defenses, especially if it was mostly just the fleet and not infrastructure. The computer on the other hand doesn't do that. The computer just sort of keeps on playing at the default rate of

I don't agree entirely with the OP, but here's my take on it: The game doesn't take too long, but it could go faster. Is it that much harder to add in a "faster" speed mode for the people that want it? People that want to have the epic feel of the game can play it at their pace, and people that want to play it at a quicker pace can do it that way as well. I think that something great about this game is its playability at different levels. It gives you choices. You can place all your str