Detection of Weapon Platforms

Krakenup · #1 March 8th, 2001, 05:29 PM

How does the AI tell if your colony has a weapon platform defending it? I have had the AI zig-zag through my defended colonies to get to the one undefended colony at the back of the system, blow it up, and zig-zag back out. I have had the AI make a beeline for an undefended colony, and then, when I built a weapon platform, turn around and go back. How does the AI know? Can I tell if an AI colony has a weapon platform without going into tactical combat?

DirectorTsaarx · #2 March 8th, 2001, 06:20 PM

That's kinda weird - I haven't seen the AI do anything that intelligent. In fact, in my current game, the AI is sending ships against BOTH planets in the system bordering his empire; and didn't change tactics much when I built weapon platforms.

Suicide Junkie · #3 March 8th, 2001, 06:25 PM

With longrange sensors, you would be able to see platforms & anything else in storage.

Does the AI have these devices on board? Or on a cloaked Satellite in your system?

Krakenup · #4 March 8th, 2001, 08:08 PM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
With longrange sensors, you would be able to see platforms & anything else in storage.

Does the AI have these devices on board? Or on a cloaked Satellite in your system?

No, this was fairly early in the game - around turn 50. I switched to human control to see if I could see what he saw. He had no scanners or sensors in the system, and I couldn't tell what was on my planets. I thought maybe there was a capability that I didn't know about. I learn something new and useful in this forum nearly every day, and I was hoping that this would be one of those.

Suicide Junkie · #5 March 8th, 2001, 08:18 PM

I don't suppose that the platform icon is visible beside the planet pic, along with the race icon.

Krakenup · #6 March 8th, 2001, 09:42 PM

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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
I don't suppose that the platform icon is visible beside the planet pic, along with the race icon.

Not that I can find.