I am afraid yes, it's a MP game now. The AI is completely inept , yes it was bad before but now its worse cause the high pop growth eventually was able to hide it shortcomings . It was able to get its ressources by sheer pop number, that without counting the massive bonus on harder difficulty. Now its building following a preset plan but never able to adjust , remove and rebuild something it needs. So their fleet power is pathetic , if we can even call them fleets , with a terravore race + calamity origin you roll over everything as the crisis with like 20X more strengh well before 2400. Nihilitic aqcuisition , barbaric despoilers and necrophage puriifiers completely bypass the pop limitations too, the Ai of course cant cope nor play that.