Maybe they did something different than you did?

Nice bug report, by the way - especially the lack of information about what settings you used, what any race did in any game, or which structures were present on any planet. I'm sure Brad will get right back to you.

By the way, "Would have" is contracted to "Would've", not "Would of".

Would you like a hanky to cry into?

Because the AI is the game. Thus, (and here's the good bit) they KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE DAMN GAME.
You need to learn to optimise all your sliders, get some research worlds, get the infrastructure done. The AI will only cheat above at Incredible and above, where it gets a bonus to economy, nothing else. 148 turns is frankly terrible. If I leave till I have a supported infrastructure, enough research, economy, and factories to be competetive (if not in the lead), Planetary Invasion takes me an average of six weeks. 6 weeks of research. Admittedly not including getting stuff set up, but 30 is managable
The proffesionals who reviewed the game gave it very high scores, awards, and in some cases the highest scores ever, and they wouldn't if the AI cheated. It doesn't at most difficulties. It never gets tired or bored, and will keep optimising.
It also doesn't make forum posts complaining that since it thinks it's so uber it should win even when it obviously is doing something wrong, whoevers playing it is cheating.
Quite a few lessons you should learn from the AI

try setting it to a easier difficulty. Beginner is a nice challenge for a first gmae (i assume it's you first game), just keep turning down (or up) the difficulty until you like it

The difficulty was on normal and on a medium map oh and another thing the dregin empire had no more than 2 planets i think. So no matter how hard i try to get planetary invasion in 30 weeks with 2/3 planets is (i think) impossible i dont know. And secondly i dont care if the people think that im childish or a whiner, what is this high school? i dont care what people think about me im never going to meet them in person. Thanks for your replies so far.

I'm playing as the Torians right now. AI is set to Intelligent and umm.. I bee lined towards planetary invasion because I knew I'd be invading the Krox. I got it VERY quickly. Nothing even close to 123 turns or whatever it was. Optimize your sliders.

Build crappy filler units to get your military score up at the beginning of the game. Then you can tank your military slider all the way down and focus on research and infrastructure. Get your econ bonuses, buy constructors to make star bases.. and you can't lose. Honestly, I wish I was a beginner. I don't want to start playing against a econ buffed AI

The difficulty was on normal and on a medium map oh and another thing the dregin empire had no more than 2 planets i think.

The fewer planets they have, the more likely they will get Planetary Invasion quickly. If they don't have to build or buy a lot of colony ships, they can use their starting funds to build up infrastructure and crank the research. In a recent game, I invaded an AI with 10 transports and 6 small ships (and researched space marines) within the first 50 turns, and in retrospect, I wasted time.

Remember that each tech you acquire increases the research cost of all the other techs. Those military techs are a LOT cheaper if they are the first things you research.

Lets throw a pity party, and invite everybody! Life is so hard for us!

I'd really like to know a little more about how to analyze the debugg.err file. Is there a guide someplace, or is it one of those things that you have to figure out yourself? Is there a copy generated for every game, and if so where is it?

For giggles I played as the Drengin. Put my research 100% and full spend rate. Built a few labs. Got invasion on March 22, 2225. That's about 11 weeks total.

Took the Drengin 30 in your game. I'd say the AI not only wasn't cheating but could have done much better.

When I am playing them it takes me about 10 -25 weeks to get to Planetary invasion, depending on the map. but in the beta trying to run invasion fleets to pick off some worlds on the edge is borderline suicidal, since you need to husband your early pop so it will grow.

Most techs are relatively easy to get if you dedicate yourself to getting it. However, in doing so you sacrifice your progress other areas of research and colony development. It's a tradeoff.

I apologize EspoDude. What I really need to start doing is count to ten or something when I read a post like your original. Just really irks me when someone starts complaining about an aspect of the game that has been discussed probably hundreds of times and been shown to not occur.

Sorry for saying that the computer is cheating, i know it was not, i was just pissed, sorry everyone. Peace