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AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta

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AI really loves to send out unescorted troop ships in 1.1 Beta

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Seriously, in two games, both the Torains and the Arceans have declared war, and come after me with nothing but a half dozen or so unescorted troop transports. Something is very, very wrong with the new Military AI for at least those two races.
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The AI in "The Godfather" does learn. If I kill too many of a familys members they declare war on my family and come bombing my stores and rackets.

The AI in Gal Civ 2 learns, too, in that sense. I've got fleets of missile/chaff ships hovering near the Drengin border guarding my influencer starbases. Gradually, I get to watch the Drengin's missile boats being replaced by beam/chaff ships. It warms the heart.
Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I've lost a planet or two to this tactic, but I quickly learned to not leave my planets undefended. I hope the AI gets better on protecting it's transports when there are clear threats in their flight paths.
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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Has anyone experienced a bunch of unescourted transports come at them if they had a huge military? Perhaps the AI sees that it has an overwhelming military relative to you so it doesn't feel a need to protect its transports as much. Just a theory.
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, in my case, the AI had a higher military rating at first, but it's ships were no match for mine. I had large hulled destroyers with specialized attack and defense, against fighters and heavy fighters.
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Something else I'm findout out about the Military power rating is it isn't tied just into how many ships you have, but, how much power those ships have as well. In one game the Drengin had over 240 ships to my 120 or so and I moved ahead of them into first place with just 28 more ships at 148. I had been building up medium hulled ships with heavy lasers and fast engines, no armors of any type. When I went to war with them it was a massacre. They had all these small hull ships and my mediums just slaughterd them a about a 7 to 1 ratio every battle. I destroyed 7 of theirs and would lose 1 of mine.