I'm playing on Normal/Excessive and I'm getting destroyed in every game I play. I usually go for research on my planets. I usually building something like 2 farms and a hospital, 1 or 2 entertainment buildings to keep 100% happiness, 1 factory and/or 1 solar power plant and the rest is research buildings with a sprinkling of economic buildings. By the time I meet a civ in the 2nd year they are usually ahead in power if not nearly double my power. I usually wait to build ship technologies, but it doesnt seem to matter how many ships I have. I'm always "ripe for conquest" It seems the computer thinks its 50 tiny ships are this force to be reckoned with or something because they always, without fail declare war on me. All of the AI players are always at war with me every game. To me that seems a little dumb. Anyway, not sure where to go from here.