New 2.8 game with gifted AI on a medium map. Default number of races. Am up to turn 71. Grabbed more than my share of the planets at the start and believe the game is won. Good starting position and initial push for ship movement increases.

Does the AI grab the capsules with their survey ships? Don't seem to. I'm getting tired of running 3 cargo survey ships and the initial survey ship around continually after them. They keep respawning.

Its a major effort to build a city on a planet. Guess this is a good thing.

Since I'm quite far in the lead with production, research and planets, no one has declared war on me. Kinda boring.

I'd guess that a large map would let the AI do more to be competitive.