Normal difficulty is really easy difficulty, right?

[The Last Monke]

Because the Ai is very stupid in normal difficulty games.

[PlutonArioch]

Yep.
Normal difficulty is only marginally better than "Idle". You could say the difference is negligible, sure stuff is moving on normal, but thats about it.
It was lobotomized because oh so many people have been complaining it was too hard.

I would suggest to play on at least Relentless, or to get the Queller AI mod. If you are playing Galactic War though, it may be that mods dont work or break the game.

[The Rifleman™]

Normal difficulty aint worth the time setting it up to. The AI only poses a little bit of a challenge, if you give them time, alot of it.

[LAG]

Originally posted by Someplace named Bluntland:

Normal difficulty aint worth the time setting it up to. The AI only poses a little bit of a challenge, if you give them time, alot of it.

that's the problem really, the ai takes to long.

In a game where everything is about expansions and conquering being late is being dead.

[The Last Monke]

Originally posted by LAG:

Originally posted by Someplace named Bluntland:

Normal difficulty aint worth the time setting it up to. The AI only poses a little bit of a challenge, if you give them time, alot of it.

that's the problem really, the ai takes to long.

In a game where everything is about expansions and conquering being late is being dead.

Yeah, so normal difficulty is only good for new players wanting to figure out how everything works. It is useless for anything else.

[LAG]

Originally posted by Darth Jar Jar:

Originally posted by LAG:

that's the problem really, the ai takes to long.

In a game where everything is about expansions and conquering being late is being dead.

Yeah, so normal difficulty is only good for new players wanting to figure out how everything works. It is useless for anything else.

this is why i struggled with normal in my first games.

i simply spent 10 minutes turtling until the AI attacked.

also why the ai tends to go a bit overboard once it gets a planet on its own to use.