I've noticed in the new beta that AI players completely ignore colonization range.

Is this by design?

Thanks for answering.

Character management seems quite important and rewarding, therefore it would not hurt if the algorithm asked the player about this action? Suggest rather than immediately execute?

The game painstakingly asks about every single new mining station to be built, but dismisses ...

As the topic suggests, is there a way to stop spies being dismissed by the automation algorithm?

I thought I had a decent grasp of the game, but this one thing infuriates me to no end where my best spies just get dismissed without my input.

I can confirm that AI has plenty units and continues to produce more, but is seemingly incapable of moving them away from the city hex.

It seems like a pretty major AI bug in the latest beta

I am not sure if I understand correctly what your problem is.

Have you tried to:
1. left click on the hex where you created a new zone
2. press 'Z'
3. left click on hexes directly adjacent to the new zone hex

If the above does not work, it may be worthwhile to post some photos, maybe it is a bug.

5.5.2.2. areal
Open Farming has a big advantage over Domed farming in that it will expand
its Areal to neighbouring Hexes. Although a single Hex (200x200km!) is
more than large enough to support a very large number of farmers the choice
picks of land are always rare. That is why, with time, an ...

During my playthrough I noticed that AI was unable to expand their territory at all from the start. The below screenshots are from round 61.

This is likely dictated by the following conditions:

Difficulty: Normal
No starting armies (not sure if this condition affects AI?)
Aggressive and numerous ...

Hello,

I've had 1607hrs spent on the game so far and many of my complaints have already been raised and are getting or seems like will be addressed.

However, there is something that's annoying me a lot and I do not think this was mentioned by anybody yet.

Open farming spread is just stupid, both ...