Hey, I've been having a issue where everytime I start a standard game on anything above the standard diffulctly, with more then 1 CPU, they ALWAYS teamup IMMEDAITLY and kill me! I am sick of having to build these bigass walls, with towers, then hiding like a little dog inside of them never comming out because there are 40 thousand people outside attacking me! PLEASE HELP, i would LOVE to have a ally for once!

Oh yes, and when I start the game with teams, and I dont lock the teams, my alley switches to neutral, demands resources, and then when I send him the resources, he STILL dosn't join my side or help me WHAT SO EVER!!!

while i'm not too well versed in the game mechanics, have you ever considered that that is how the difficulty levels above standard are supposed to play out?

like you already mentioned, just lock the teams.