Does AI use boarding ships

Q · #1 April 16th, 2001, 12:22 PM

I designed boarding ships for the CueCappa. The designs were created and the ships built. But the boarding ships just stayed in the orbit of the colonies and didn't attack any enemy ships.
Did I miss something or has anbody seen the AI use boarding ships?

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raynor · #2 April 16th, 2001, 12:31 PM

From what I've seen, the AI doesn't use boarding ships. To the best of my knowledge, this is something that the game just isn't programmed to do yet.

pathfinder · #3 April 16th, 2001, 12:36 PM

The EA in the game I am currently playing musst have, as they got Ice colonization from the Krill. They are at war with the Krill, so I don't think it was a friendly exchange

jc173 · #4 April 16th, 2001, 02:05 PM

You may need to fix the default strategies for that type of ship Q. I think someone mentioned it works out better if the boarding ship has some sort of weapon and is given a primary strategy of pointblank or short range and a secondary strategy or capture ships. I've done that but I haven't seen it work in combat with one of my fleets against the AI. Someone mentioned awhile back that one of the user created Borg races boarded ships, so I guess it must work for some people?

raynor · #5 April 16th, 2001, 02:32 PM

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Originally posted by pathfinder:
The EA in the game I am currently playing musst have, as they got Ice colonization from the Krill. They are at war with the Krill, so I don't think it was a friendly exchange

Take a look at the EA research file. They research Ship Capture *after* they research Ice Planet Colonization. In fact, as ironic as it may sound, the two entries come exactly one after the other in the Version of the ModPack I have installed on this computer. :-)

I'm guessing that even if the AI captured a ship it would not be smart enough to analyze it for the technology anyways.

BTW, the AI did once acquire one of my SM ships through an Intel Op. It was one heck of an expensive ship. Thank goodness I don't put shields on my SM ships. It was very easy to board and get back.

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Deathstalker · #6 April 16th, 2001, 05:27 PM

As to the Borg boarding, that was me. Happened and surprised the crap out of me.

. Never saw it happen again (in tactical, but it did happen it strat a few times again.) It was an old Borg race off of 'House of Style' I think. They used cap. Missiles and Trac beams with boarding parties/security on every ship. Never did well in the stat's section since the TONNES of pdc that was soon employed by the TDM packs but still a beautiful set.

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