AI is broken

Maybe you reached the point where 1 Ai just isnt a challange anymore.

There are many people that need at least 2 brutal Ai's and maybe a challenging map to have some difficulty in such games.

So what you can do is:
1. Go for brutal Ai.
2. Choose a very hard map, many people play on Comet Catcher Redux, because it is very big and you need to defend alot of ground.
3. Dont use the "easy way" when you say you used gs, you probably had many nimbus. Thats probably the easiest way to beat AI's. Try to avoid units like that. (i personnaly try to not use mass snipers, mass heavy tanks, any strider or superweapon, any porc that goes beyond stinger, Slashers make it also very easy to controll large areas) basically all units that make cost without any effort...
4. You could give the Ai an inactive Ai as a support income.
5. Fight 2 AI's at the same time. They expand faster and you need to counter more different units. Carefull when you fight 3 ai, 1 will be air or gs.
6. Avoid hard eco. only solar and wind?
7. Give the ai an headstart. Start the game and wait 1 minute before you start playing.
8. Try to do certain challanges. Beat brutal ai without any porc on Comet Catcher redux.
9. Do an only glaive game against two Brutals on Melange (24x24 map) thats not easy either.

I guess you got some choice now.

links to replays please

Remember that the AI doesn't cheat - if you are playing against any difficulty but Brutal, you are infact playing against Brutal with brain damage.

edit - AI winning a FFA today: http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/740601?ShowWinners=True

Let me amend my observations on Brutal AI statement. It SEEMS like brutal is unaffected. However some might have found otherwise, since I haven't played against it much.

Where do I find the replays for single player skirmish games?

if your enemy is using heavy arty you already did something wrong. yes you can win with things like bertha because the ai has no idea how to counter it. if you just want to win go for it. i think anir assumes you want to improve. if so, you should learn hard raiding first. it´s possible to win the game in 5 min. but as said, if you just want to beat the ai, do what works.
oh and btw if you are playing against brutal that has about 10 times your income AND YOU SURVIVE, then brutal really is broken.

I think non-cheating AI that beats most meatbags is achievable goal in zeroK. Circuit still has a lot of low hanging fruit type changes or additions that could be made

I can confirm, that the AI got buggy.
I used to play a slightly older version, maybe like half a year old.
the Normal AI was enough to keep me struggling, i was winning 70% of the games.
I remembered to check for updates and installed the new version after i lost. Suddenly after the Updates the Normal AI was like braindead.
it send just some few raiders at the beginning and then is was just building mexes, sometimes a laser turret.
I can confirm, that my abilities have increased since my first game. But within half an hour? No.