Did they come at you with Large Hulls with 8 dmg worth of lasers equipped while they have/had the resources to waste on useless crap?
I swear when they did crusade they borked something that made the AI play awful. But since crusade is much slower grindy game compared to gc3 the average player probably doesn't even notice it.
I am at 300 turns all godlike and even trying to mod the game so the Ai cannot build garbage they still are making garbage. I think since the AI absolutely needs to spam ships it will make the cheapest crappiest ship all game just so it can spam ships.
Sorry i sound like a broken record on this complaint but im glad it isn't just me noticing when i step back this game is very broken.