It seems the major problems that remain after Bhruick's patch all involve the AI's mishandling of the "corporation" aspects of the game.

Could I just switch the corporation stuff off somehow, so no one can build them? Or alternatively somehow rewrite the AI (is that in a DLL or what?) to make it never do anything having to do with a corporation?

-Kris

There's not a game option to switch it off, but I don't think it would be too hard to just mod them out. You don't even need to take out the code for corporations - just delete the buildings out of the XML I think should work.

Maybe I'll do that when I get BtS. It doesn't seem like that fun or interesting of a feature anyway.

-FrL-

You might want to increase the maintenance cost for environmentalism a bit, and decrease it for free market, to accomodate for taking out corps as well (since they effect corp maintenance cost). You may also want to make the corporations tech slightly cheaper (or maybe not, the trade routes effect is probably still worth it).