Mines, Cloaking, Stars, and the AI

[Mayaca]

Heya...

I've discovered the AI still isn't too bright. Like most, I mine all of my warp points. Heavily. I had an AI empire keep trying to go through the same Warp point for an entire game, 4 hours worth of real time, and it never once created a mine sweeper. It just kept plowing into my mines, losing ships, and I kept putting more mines there. I certainly don't mind it didn't get some mine sweepers, but tis a tad silly for the AI not to realize it would be the only way to get through.

I played a game with max tech level. I made some "Star Destroyers". Light Cruiser Hull, computer, cloaking device, reactor, max engines, and the star destroying torpedo. The AI had no cloaking detecting satillites. I cloaked my ships into 6 systems, went to the the star, decloaked, destroyed the star and system.. my Empire won in the amount of time it took to build the ships. I did notice one of the AI empires destroy a star too, so watch out.

And this one is just a bit off kelter... my homeworld, Huju II, Gas Giant, Huge. The quote: "Tiny planet inhabited by water consuming microbes." I'm sorry, but a Huge Gas Giant isn't tiny.