firstly, the general post
"so you want to know the basics huh?
you should start by downloading the ini editing guide
http://www.deezire.net/modules.php?n...op=getit&lid=4
and incase you didn't notice, this place is dead, if you want meaningfull healp, with fast replies, you should try
Renegade Projects,
Revora, or
Project Prefect Mod."
now to answer some direct questions.
making the AI build more than 1 factory can only be done using clones. to make it not messed up for the player, you want factories that only the AI can build.
to give them more money, there's a tag, something like AIVirtualPurifiers=, this holds 3 values in order of dificulty, and is a multiplier of what money they get from an ore load. try something like AIVirtualPurifiers=8,4,2.
and an AI editor, DCoder wrote 1, try looking at renegadeprojects.