I want to have more fun, but I can't.  Aaaaaaarrrrrgggghhh.  They made the AI too dumb. 

Then what's going to happen is I'm going to choose Malevolent and invade their planets before they're ready.  

With the constructor into colony ship trick, and Malevolent free frigate and free 5 transport ships, I can begin invasion preparations by turn 15.  All I need is enough colonies to get 4 ideology perks and I can get 7 colonies by turn 10.  

I would also change out the Patriotic super trait with something else, like zealot or "more extra colonists upon colonization."  

I believe the intention of this game is to be a space empire sandbox, not a competitive strategy game, so try to learn to relax your strategies and roleplay a bit (ie don't prey on weak neighbours, don't colonize in their space, and actually try using treaties and trading etc) If you absolutely MUST exploit the game mechanics (you must be a munchkin) then it sounds like you really need to mod the game, which is absolutely ok. Nerf the hell out of the ideology traits you've been using, and buff the AI.  

He said he's playing against AI Godlike all Synthetic...  My question is why are you only playing against synthetic races?  There are many types of games you can play against, try playing against Godlike factions and at the same time fill the galaxy with factions, so on a tiny map I believe the cap is 20, medium 40 Large 80, and stay at whatever the maximum races are for the map so you really only have your home system maybe one other before you can no longer colonize anything, then see if you can beat the AI quickly.

Otherwise, I would suggest creating a ticket to Stardock outlining how you have exploited the game to make it too easy so they can fix it in a future update to make the game more fun for you.

At least 3, I would suggest to Stardock that they lock 2 of them as they are all on the same topic about the game being too easy and full of exploits.

Actually, I think some good could come of this. Please consider sending your saved games and whatever exploit you used to the developers so they can close the hole. Good for you for finding the problem. Now please help the rest of us by letting Stardock know what you did.

The rest of us don't give a rat's ass if you can cheat at a single player game and "win".  We don't care how you did it. But Stardock might.

I think you're missing out on the point of a game like GalCiv3 if you're looking for an automatic win button. You lose the immersion and the fun gets sucked out of it. That being said, you can still contribute to the community by sending the information privately to Stardock.

I'm sure it's very possible to do all the things the OP is claiming. God like AI can't get close to a minmaxing human, even with all its bonuses.

That said I don't think the OP is making a fair comparison. This is still literally the first release build (with a few tiny updates). Let's compare to 2 games with a great reputation for balance - sc2 and dota2.... Both of those had big balance issues during vanilla launch. Give the devs some time and the benefit of the doubt. 

I don't think the point of this game is microtuned balance - it's a space empire simulator, not an esport. Although that doesn't mean they shouldn't fix the biggest issues and improve the AI!

Quoting Frogboy,

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What's your Metaverse URL? I'd love to see some evidence.

He claims that he gets so bored that he just quits. Hence no evidence.

Only 0.7% of games are completed at the highest difficulty level, most of which are defeats for the player.

Someone saying the AI is stupid or easy on a forum requires no effort.  The stats, however are the stats.

I agree would be much harder without a custom designed race. 

Terrans are a particairily poor choice - their racials aren't very strong, although their tech tree isn't bad!

But I can easily see how exploiting a long list of bugs or "unintended features", and designing the "perfect" race, etc can lead to some silly outcomes. 

ie, the whole take the 3 constructor and upgrade to colony ship thing is clearly an unintended exploit. Just by doing that you are already "cheating" so to speak...

I can't count the number of times ive given up on insane maps! The amount of micro required after a while gets out of control. Also you are screwed without patriotic if you go for military victory.

Started a medium map the other day, much more fun. I colonised about 1/4 of the galaxy and while I am miles ahead, it's still very interesting.

will probably start a godlike game on the weekend, and play without any of the blatant exploits. Although I might use a custom race. see how the AI stacks up.

Overall though it's a great game. 

Actually, Frogboy - you should make a challenge based on what you said above! set some rules like:

1) large map

2) all 8 predefined races

3) godlike

4) you must play one of the predefined races

5) min-maxing is ok, but no cheese - ie sensor buoys, 3 constructor exploit, carrier spam, etc.

You'd either be proven right, or you'd get a ton of valuable balance and AI feedback!

Synthetics are slow to get started.

by attacking them so early you are taking advantage of a situation you created.