Q & A AI

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by oleg:
[QBAnd this is the most annoing: AI also tries to refit ships to a "new" design. Since designs are identical, retrofit fails and ship just sit on the planet doing nothing. Next turn, and then another turn... When I test AI on auto run, I had ships going this cycle for dozens of turns.
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I haven't seen it do that as much as it used to, so maybe it is getting a little better. The thing that drives me nuts, though is when propulsion advances from, say, level 1 to level 2. The AI starts refitting ships to the new engines which give no benefit at all to it (other than perhaps a very small maintenance benefit) since speed does not increase. It's especially bad when it holds up a loaded colonizer for a couple of turns to refit its engines.