First off, I love this game. Yesterday I played on "normal" and beat the game. One of the things that impressed me most about the AI is that when I massed my ships against two planets for a final attack, the AI contacted me and TEASED me about how stupid I am and like this would never have happened on "inteligent" setting. This message made my game.
That said I am having a few problems with some of the game features:
1. Even after I controlled more than 3/4 of the galaxy, my "win conditions" showed 0% on all sections. What's up with that?
2. I could not group ships into fleets in some cases. I had a logistics of 16 and had three ships valued 4/4/5. Defect?
3. One AI race which was allied with me suddenly attacked me. Why?
Aside from these small issues the game rocks!!!!
I am bumping the difficulty setting tonight!