The ai is definitely playing the game better. They are definitely making better decisions in unit selection department. The ai still needs some help in the city building department. I conquered an empire and ended up demolishing half of the structures due to the fact that they had an insane number of monuments on a level 3 and 4 city and no room to build more stuff. At that point the ai should start scraping structures that aren't necessary for the city to expand so it can expand. 1.1 made the game playable, this update just made it a lot more fun.

Most of the problems i have late game come from me getting the out of memory error and the fact that there is a 5-10 second delay every time my turn ends. the game runs fine in the beginning but really starts to stutter as the game goes on.

edit I just witnessed the ai kamakazee his sov against my army controlling his city, causing him to lose the game.

Yeah, Brad needs to fix the Kamikaze SOV's along with the civilization-wide disappearance of every citizen and town if the SOV does happen to die.

This might be a bit late but here's how I personally fixed the 1.91GB install thing in my case.

I had the 1.91GB download thing initially.  The issue seems to be that Impulse wasn't detecting my elemental 1.10 install, so to fix it.

1.  Use the "detect application" (in the menu button to the left of explore).

2.  In the dropdown boxes: Product Category -> My Games.  Product -> Elemental: War of Magic.  Click Import.

3.  Right click elemental, update it.  It will turn into a 9.08MB or so patch because the game will be detected as version 0.00 instead of 1.10.  Once its downloaded, you will be updated.

For those who are still having the 1.9GB update problem with Impulse, we have just released a new build of Impulse that should take care of the problem.

If you have any more problems once you have updated to the latest Impulse, please let us know.

Once you open Impulse, it should prompt you for the update.  If you have any issues getting the update, you can always get the latest public release from http://impulsedriven.com/download