Investigation of AI reassessment upon reload

[therother]

Over the past month or so, a new game mechanics issue has arisen: does the AI reassess its actions after a reload of a saved game?

This thread is for investigating that issue, with the eventual aim of understanding the observations already made by many of the community. To be most effective, especially reading some posts from CA staff members, the thread must be as concise, relevant and conclusive as possible. Please try to be as complete and accurate as you can be before posting.

Also, take some time to familiarise yourself with the posting guidelines for this forum. Any post, or part of a post, which is not related to research of this issue will be removed from this thread.

Edit: In answer to Pode's first post, the sort of things we are looking for are: detailed observations, repeatable experiments, community attempts to gather large datasets, analysis of that data, and hopefully possible workarounds.

Which is a very long-winded way of saying, yes, that's fine!