Strategy game doesn't mean that all the AI players have to take over all the city's
But they should be able to found cities at good city site near their capital, not burn 20 turns walking to the other end of the continent before they build a second city.
Nor should they not attack after declaring war.
Nor should they build settlers then not use them, or fail to repair pillaged tiles, or immediately give cities back in the once in a blue moon scenario when they do take them, nor build spaceports but then unaccountably fail to build the projects to achieve the space victory, or spam mech. infantry instead of doing so when they refuse to go to war in the first place.
The only thing I was impressed with was Brazil's megafarm... but I have no idea if it had sufficient production to go along with that.
Actually the only part of the game that looks to have AI interaction is Religion, maybe they wasted too much lines of code making the AI play that stuff.
Sadly, like the domination victory, that seemed impossible for the AI to win, especially with the two continents. They just spammed back and forth, and some civs got converted, then converted back, and converted again. It seemed like an endless cycle with no way of winning... except not to play.
Culture actually seems the inevitable win, as it is just a matter of accruing a numeric threshold. Any computer can do that- addition and subtraction is pretty much the basis of everything. Science is also possible, but it would require the AI to focus on that and be coded to build the next step in the chain. It looked like each project was disassociated and they'd have to reconsider the project from its 'natural' place in the priority tree for each of the 5 steps (not including building the spaceports in the first place, let alone doing what a player would do and build 3), which means long stretches of not pursuing the victory condition.
Also an AI delevoper should not be happy with the fact that when two civs declare a joint war no one attacks because they dont want to be first and peace gets issued 10 turns later, he even called it as soon as the joint war decleration happened
Out of everything, that gets me the most. They're perfectly content with how terrible it is, and can anticipate it
being terrible. Have some professional pride in public, guys.