(The AI tends to simply buy it's ships/techs/improvements if it can afford them.) If you're not colonizing at all within the first few turns, your rival civs may gain a considerable lead with regard to its population growth. Had built a factory, 2 research labs, another factory and then two other structures on the homeworld in this time.Īre you building your initial colony ships instead of buying them? If so, you could be giving the rival civs an advantage in that you're allowing them to colonize faster. In my last game, I encountered the first AI player when I had just finished my 2nd colony ship (3rd if you count the starting one), and I had built nothing in between.
But how the heck does the AI manage to get so far ahead in tech so quickly?
