First I have to say thank you guys for Glest and all the mods it's hands down one of my favourite Linux games. I have been playing Glest for a while now and I was searching through the mods for some more factions and stuff... I found the Glest megapack_v4.7z it contains some really good mods. I guess my first comment is why can't you guys have an in game menu that links to a page of mods. I would put the menu on the victory as a treat for the first time you beat cpu.
(for two reasons a reward and so you don't get killed on bandwith)
Cpu might be better divided into three or four divisions something a little easier than cpu regular would be nice and maybe something between regular and ultra. I often played with a cpu team mate when learning the game initially or trying new factions and that is where an easy would be nice.
The last thing I want to ask is there a way to get the cpu to go after gold and build castles on new resource sites. As a human player I understand that if I find a new pile of gold that's the place to build a castle but the cpu lacks that.