szulcek: The longer story for the curious: during the testing, I found that when the AI is on its last legs, and has its last Capitol surrounded with Priest towers, with no other buildings or citizens left (map revealed), it will regardless keep on creating citizens in that Capitol until the very end of the game. What is more, it will also quickly follow the player in advancing to the next epoch (which is a general rule). Because of the unlimited resources, it can and will dot the whole map with its buildings, and swarm the player with the units that it creates in those; rinse, repeat. Setting the difficulty to "Easy" changes nothing in that aspect.

szulcek: The AI will always follow the player shortly on advancing to the new epoch. The "story" mentioned in the preceding post is either made up or taken from a game with human opponents. In a Random Map game with the original AI, it will never be possible to witness "twists of action" such as Bronze-Age Short Sword infantry being attacked by Digital-Age Reaper Gunship helicopters, as the AI will always be at most one epoch behind the human player (and not for too long), "thanks" to its unlimited resources.

szulcek: There are still people who love this game, and there is the Save-EE community (just google it), so let's hope that a mod will be created—better late than never!—that successfully replaces the original AI.

One of such projects is discussed in the Save-EE forum thread "NEW AI for Empire Earth" (google it again). I would love to see this made possible, so fingers crossed for the capable folks out there.