I think we all know by now that the game is unplayable with the new in game ai, if you really want to keep playing you're going to have to run a better ai yourself unfortunately.
Please recommend a new ai, that is accessible to the masses, or point to the thread that has some decent suggestions. I guess the dev got sick of paying for the ai or some such, but they won't be getting many new players with the current ai as a model because it really shows how appalling ai can be.