ya i made a game today vs a bunch of ai and they are a pretty big joke. all 5 of the ai i had in my ffa are unfair ai and they just let me walk over them. they build less ships now then before the .880 patch, which was bad enough before already!

hopefully they can get to the bottom of it and get those ai up n running again to challenge us!!

I don't know. I'm playing an 8 player map against 4 hard and 3 unfair AIs. Don't know about the hard AIs but the Unfairs are giving me a good run for my money. Sending large fleets to wipe all my defenses on border planets while my fleet is tied up somewhere else. Finally making some headway though

The funny thing is that in 0.79 I played against a TEC Rebel Unfair AI which actually spammed massive fleets at me. I also noticed that the Advent are becoming nearly unbeatable in late stages of the game on huge maps. In one battle I fought an Advent fleet that whas composed of a Titan and 8 Capital ships, while my own fleet counted 14 capital ships and a Titan of my own. Due to the Advents extremely high shield mitigation levels (a level 10 Radiance Battleship even had 79% shield mitigation and 20 Armor! ) I ended up victorious after having lost all but three capital ships and nearly my entire supporting fleet. It was a tough battle.

To return to the OP: I have also noticed that the AI seems to be using even less frigates than usual. Definitely something that needs to be adjusted, preferably before the next patch is released.

Anyone want to bet that the next patch the AI is too hard. Wait, there is no such thing as a hard or insane AI.

I noticed in the 2 singleplayer games I've played so far, there were only like 2 out of 10 AIs that bothered to make frigates.  I kept encountering titan/capitol ship only fleets throughout the entire game...

are you guys playing FFA games or something like 1v8 melee games? 

Lethargic, what type (aggressive/defensive/resercher/economist) did attack you properly?

I've had inconsistent results with the latest patch. Some of the early battles have been genuinely good and have caught me out, requiring me to react to the AI for a change. This isn't always the case though: as the last game they became relatively brain dead after about 90 minutes.