Nice feedback.  I think it's a great help to hear feedback from people who haven't been in the beta process for the better part of a year.  

I don't know if this is coupled with the higer difficulity settings, but it should always be standard behaviour except for the sub-"normal" levels. At difficulty levels where its not possible to "rush" your opponents you usually try to stay on friendly terms with them as long as possible. Then finally you get over the top with city development and the final gets suddenly boring. If your weak in the beginning and they take advantage of it from early on, the game gets more interesting even on lower levels. You have to change your strategy, you constantly have to switch beetween development and troop production. I don't mean they should always attack on sight, but even on expert level they often only try to retaliate when it's much to late.

You would be surprised what people think are overpowered and not. There is a lot of strategy with each of these skills and people have been rather successful in making civs overpowered without the traits you pointed out.

Post them anyway. You'd be surprised what gets through. Not everybody is a grammar nazi and so a lot of these errors slip by. It's always best to post a screenshot showing the spot you noticed it. That way the devs can fix it. But I'd wait for the .984 build today

The AI has been updated for this most recent build. As to aggressiveness, the appropriate balance to look for is playing on Challenging. That is where the AI should make the best decisions without getting any bonuses. Under challenging difficulty the AI is specifically making mistakes. I do know if you want to give an in depth analysis of the aggressiveness that frogboy would love to read it. As he reads all of these with such delight, as do a lot of the players.

Keep up the good feedback here and PLEASE catch and tell them the fix of all those grammar mistakes.

I agree.  I made a custom sov the other day that I thought would be weaker (was testing a "gimp" soverign).  So I went with + accuracy, and also the + accuracy per level and that warrior career (forget the term) and some initiative.  GOOD LORD!  I made this chick an assassin, with a specialty of basically hiring and maintaining large armies.  The fact that she NEVER misses is so tactically valuable that I can't even describe it.   Her initiative (which I raised as she leveled up) is high enough that I can even run in, attack (hope for crushing crit) and withdraw before monster attacks.  Thus the armies (or tank champion, though you always need some amount of fodder to keep the mob from running around and past your "tank."). 

But it took me a game or so to figure out that she can't be alone.  You need someone to take the hits, then you guage when you approach and lay down the smack and kill.  Frequently she will get two turns to the enemy's one, and more if you cast slow on it.  Add that to the aforementioned fodder to keep mob from getting through your lines (tactical ZoC), and this is some powerful shizzle.

I was surprised at the viability of this sovereign, and I learned that, while I am sure there are some more overpowered builds than others, if you suit your strategy to your sovereign, you can probably make a great many things work. 

edit:  Funny, after thinking about it for a bit, the "jump in, strike and retreat" is a assassin move.  Since there is no sneak/invis to do a classic sneak attack, this may be the true identity of the E:FE assassin.  Again, you need others to make it viable.  Can't stand toe to toe unless you max dogde, but that would be at the cost of her initiative or attack power.  Hmm, a dodge/evasion based tank?  Wonder if that is viable?  Oh crap, got a mind flare going here, wish I was home to play and test this.