Does the ai cheat?

[Ludens]

my treasory is high enough to triger those bad traits, but there only four or five of them that comes with high treasury, and my generals have more than five bad traits. i usualy have above one million denarii after 50 or so years of game, so money isnt trouble, just u have to hate that kind of things.

I think it is far more than three of four traits, and several "ordinary" bad traits have increased likelyhood of occuring as well. Remember that all three triggers are activated: that's a lot of bad traits. I usually spend all my money on construction projects or armies; I don't know where you get these amounts from.

[dkdnt]

money come and goes, on very hard it is hard to have such treasory but not imposible just need to manage resources carefully. so i dont have large armies, or too many of them, garison units are cheap but high xp becouse of weak rebels, and in most cities i have only stone walls, and i dont have last level barracks and stables in every city, it is good enough to have few cities of different types(for example one with stables, other with baracks) i build blacksmith only in cities with one kind of temple(with seleukids, in those with hephestus temple, cuz this allow +3 on armor and weapons). and lot of things like that.

i use money to suport weak factions(somewhere i described that i dont like to destroy factions) against some other strong faction while i dealing with others. and i try to play with barbarians few times, but it was boring(to me ofcourse) so i quit, and dont know how they can get money.

but fact is that i save money, i try to manage as few armies as i can to uphold empire and to conquer new regions. its not that hard, esecially if u played civ as long as i had. and while im doing this, ai gets free bonuses, to suport whole bunch of armies. better challenge would be if ai build its armies in better way, not like this, creating armies of only infantry, that as good as it is(for example, full stack of urban cohort) is not to match full strike of cataphrakts and companions, not to mention when they are engaded with silver shield pikemans or just phalanx pikemans. they are easy prey, even stronger units that are all alone cannot beat well combined army, that is alpha and omega per tactics.
all im saying is that if ai use similar tactics like combining and training high xp units it would be much better than stupid cash bonuses.

[Ludens]

My point was: I do have large armies and developed cities, as to prevent my family members from becoming corrupt. Money itself does not interest me (when I am not tottering on the verge of bankrupcy, that is ~:D ).