I notice military rarely seems to get placed in the 3 discount tech choice.Maybe the A.I always chooses those techs.

The one most people find rarely selected is the Government branch.

I get military quite a lot with all 3 sometimes being ship techs, Offense, Defense, Logistics, Ship Consruction, ect. 

guys I just won 1v5 on godlike in early game ^^

In addition to what already have been said, I would add that I haven't seen AI use higher tier doctrines (like assault\scirmisher) and all these new modules, like nano-repair, scramblers, etc.

I imagine if AI was trained to build their fleets in pyramid structure, with big\huge hull ships always being a priority and cruisers\frigates supporting them it would make the game more challenging\interesting.

I think the belief that bombers are somehow good has to go, They are not, especially not in the mid\late game. Even in big numbers and even with cheesy tactics like shield bubble (which AI doesn't use of course). Especially given that only 1 tiny ships can be produced each turn and high difficulty AIs waste a lot of production on them. Bombers\fighters could be somewhat relevant if there was such thing as tracking in the game, when bigger ships with bigger guns would have a hard time hitting tiny ships. But there is no such thing, so they become useless almost from the start of the game, when you can build frigates. 

I really hope Stardock addresses AI issues, because as soon as the game stops being challenging, it soon stops to be interesting to play.

I wouldn't say small ships are useless. The small ship with the massive accuracy bonus can get pretty jacked with shield bubble covering defenses.

They changed armor so it loses 5% every hit. They changed shields so they only take the square root of damage (seems to be per weapon but I've struggled to verify exactly how it works). Accuracy doesn't impact evasion as far as I'm aware.

Are you sure you are speaking current information?

The bombers should shred the armor away completely in a single round. I've found armor to be completely useless. 

Instead I have a mix of ships all with no defenses what-so-ever flying with a big ship equipped with nothing but shields and the bubble shield that extends it to fleet. The shields inherently mitigate all incoming damage by the square root and every ship has the same shield value regardless of size or build.

Honestly, at this point I'm more concerned with how not to use certain modules\tactics to give AI a chance and make the game more interesting... Ideally on highest difficulties this shouldn't be the case - AI should keep players busy looking for new ways to defeat it. I think it's not that hard to achieve actually: just make AI prioritize big\huge ships and pyramid sctructure fleets without tiny ships, high tier doctrines and balanced defense\offense modules including warlords ones. Also it is a good idea for AI to have at least several fleet composition and doctrine\targeting priorities combinations so that players can't adapt easily.

Here is an example of how "good" AI on godlike: a player destroys several fleets with just one ship (frigate).

https://youtu.be/VS13iS1fnps?t=1434

armor lost 5% every ROUND not every HIT 

combat lasts 20 rounds

how do I know? cause my dread vs 42 bombers got hit for 0 dmg in round 2 3 4 5 etc from hits and if I have rly bad rng I get hit for full hp from hits but armor still worked after round 3

you can get hit like 50 times in one round and you lost only 5% this time

the only thing bad about armor you can get kill if you have bad RNG in absorb

for example if you have 100 dmg on any weapon you roll dice every round 1-100 damage

if you have 100 armor you roll and dice 1-100 absorb from armor

so if you have bad rng you can get armor penetrated, shield don't have RNG thing shield is just bonus hp

but in % of probality armor still wins 

in turn 120-130 I already have max fleet limit, dreads best weapons and win a game and almost all techs researched, so gl with this xDDDDDDDDD

turn 215 are you kidding ?

I probably just not as good as you lol. I play with like 20 aliens on biggest map but lower difficulty. My last game I went up to like turn 600 lol. 

fleet limit is how much ships you can make in one stack, cmon I play on godlike after 3 day when I bought this game, 

4k games like stellaris is much harder 

Im pointing the team towards the feedback provided here for Godlike A.I so we can take a deeper look at it.

Battleships should be built on all levels.Godlike A.I is just cheating and not better A.I.