Hi again,

One more thing, which may or may not be working as designed.  I've been away from GalCiv for some time, and I'm recently dipping my toes back in with Crusade.  Since I'm just having a look in and figuring out how everything works so far, I've been playing a bunch of early game with AI players set to "Beginner" so I can see how all the moving parts fit together without too much hassle.    And they've been really outpacing me in nearly every game.  

But then I was setting up my last game and found something.  I set up my AI players as "Beginner" then popped back to a previous tab in the game setup.  When I came back to the players tab, some of them were no longer beginners.  They were back to normal.  In digging around the settings more, I found a "galactic difficulty" setting on another tab.  That was set to normal.  And when I changed THAT to beginner, it said something like, "All AI players set to beginner."  And in that game, I'm drastically outpacing the AI.  

So does one of those take precedence over the other.  Does where I manually set my AI players take precedence over "galaxy difficulty," or does it work the other way around?  Just curious.  And no idea if this is a bug, working as intended, or just too many levers operating the same settings.

Thanks again, 

Erf.