Boy the Ai is Duuuumb.

[Randallw]

Right, I have my little colony. The big bad enemy attacks with about 60 ships but instead of the Planet being captured or glassed it is blockaded. I check the replay to see how the hell my colony survived. Things start normally. My drones launch, to be destroyed as usual. The armed vessels withdraw to allow the troop ship to move in.
now as shown there is a planet with 4 moons, and my colony is on the 4th moon.

planet
moon1
moon2 moon4
moon3.

Can you guess what happened?
The Ai moves the troop ship between the planet and moons but because 2 of the moons are next to each other it can't fit through. So the troop ship just sits there while the rest of his fleet backs off to let it do its job, which it can't do.
Perhaps in SE5 we could at least have ships that, if they can't fit, will at least take another route.

Edit: Obviouslly it ignores my spacing in the diagram.

[ May 11, 2004, 07:51: Message edited by: Randallw ]