[PeterD]

Master Balisarius suggested I try a game in a
small galaxy against 3 or 4 good (TDM) AI's.

All of them against me, something I hadn't tried
before. I can report its pretty good.

I used to play with 10 AI's in a large (250)
galaxy and I've found the AI stumbles around a
bit. It also takes a lot of time to manage an
empire that size and its possible to get worn out
before the end game.

Giving it less systems to worry about seems to
make it more of a challenge.

Perhaps smaller is better!