All I want is to be able to complete one match with my friend. We usually get to about Turn 100-ish (might be more, might be less, I can't remember exactly) when we first experience a desync. So what we usually do is "resync", which then sort of reloads the game before the desync happened. It opens up a lobby and I join this lobby (my friend hosts, as he has more DLCs than me) so we can start it up and play on.

The problem is that no matter what we try, it always ends up in some AI taking over my Empire. Well, it's more complicated than that. I can still try make my own decisions and stuff, but I now have an AI co-running my empire with me. As soon as I try to do anything this AI immediately overrides my decisions with it's own. It changes what techs are being researched, what buildings are being built, how my population is arranged, controls all my units anywhere on the map, etc. So we DO get to resync, but this AI taking over is the problem.

So are you saying to me that this problem has been fixed? Cuz that is my only problem. Like you said the desyncs can sort of be ignored, as resyncing isn't that hard. But if that problem with the AI taking over has been fixed, it would be absolutely awesome!

PS: Thank you for replying! :-)