Ships in Fleets - Old Bug?

God Emperor · #1 September 16th, 2001, 09:58 AM

I have been playing around with the Fleet.txt file lately in an effort to increase the number of ships that the AI assigns to fleets.
Modding the number of fleets and the ship setting seems to work ok, but, modding the % of ships that the AI maintains in its fleets does not - I've been trying numbers like 80% and 90%.
Is this an old bug? Or is there something I have missed?
Regards,
GE

Q · #2 September 16th, 2001, 12:55 PM

At least this was not known to me. Did you wait a couple of turns to see if more ships join the fleets? The new built ships need some time to get to their fleets so the % number may temporarily be lower than defined.

God Emperor · #3 September 16th, 2001, 03:19 PM

Q,
Have observed it in several games I have played. In my current game at turn 61, the Borg have 81 ships (71 warships), of which 32 are in 4 fleets (11,9,7,5)...
The current fleet setting is 90% so they should have 63 ships in fleets but are only half way...
I stop every ten turns to check my races and none of them have got anywhere close to 90%...
Regards,
GE

God Emperor · #4 September 18th, 2001, 02:35 PM

Q · #5 September 18th, 2001, 06:04 PM

God Emperor you may have indeed found a bug. Mail it to MM with the savegame file. They are working hard on the next patch so they could correct this too.

Rollo · #6 September 18th, 2001, 06:13 PM

I am not sure it is a bug. I think percentage of ships in fleets means maximum percentage. Because the fleet minister breaks up fleets quite frequently numbers like 80 or 90 will never be reached. Have you tested with low values like 50 or even 10 or 20?

Of course the minister could need some improvements

. Like not breaking up a fleet after a planet is captured or looking for repair bays in the fleet rather than breaking up for repairs.

Rollo

Q · #7 September 19th, 2001, 06:46 PM

I checked several AI empires in my current game and indeed the percentage of ships in fleets is much lower than it should be according to the race fleets file. Usually about half of what it should be or even less! No matter what the reason is; if the ministers break the fleets up: this is a bug IMO and should be corrected..