Hi,
thanks for playing and testing out our game! As you noticed, the AI is quite passive in the current version. We prefer to finish all basic features first before we properly implement AI. Writing a decent AI takes a lot of time, and we'd rather not spent our time rewriting the AI over and over again. :)
The AI will come soon enough. But first we will have a couple of versions without a smart AI. I must say however, the issue is less visible when you use 'start with start data' when creating a new game. (if the AI has startdata defined).