the AI is not all that great i have put the AI intelligence on godlike and it seems to be the same as having it on beginners i was fooling around with the console and unlocked all researches as soon as i built my first ship i went to war with all AIs to see what would happen and it just became super annoying having to see them beg for peace every turn...........
another thing i notice is that playing as terran alliance no one will go to war with you i have gone over 600 turns with all AI and no war but if you play as yor singularity all AIs will declare war as soon as they find you but wont attack.....unless in thier area...now i know that ships have certain range and can only move so far but at this point in the game that shouldnt be a problem especiallly on godlike
to have influence as a victory is pointless since you have to infuence 95% of the map to win but you can do that very easily since no one will go to war with you just build abunch of star bases and turn AUTO on and wait for about 500 turns to win ...also find it pointless since you can just infuence the entire galexy in conquest and win that way with no war ...but it should be that if you are influencing another AIs space they should not be happy with that....i do look at the AI relationship with the player and shareing a boarder is bad and the AI does not like it but they still dont act on it.. even when your ships are in thier space.....i think if you have a ship in someone elses space you have 3-5 turns to get it out of there before they declare war...
sorry if my grammer is not correct........but you get what i am saying:)