Well, if you send your own scout ship out, the auto-explore or auto-survey will deactivate once it has nothing left to explore. It too will just sit there from then on unless you set the auto-pilot or destroy it.

So it ignores it. Big deal.

Sometimes they just accumulate their old ships at one point without making fleets. Once the Arceans had more than 100 olds ships at the same place and I had to destroy them one by one, which took me several turns. The Arceans didn't move those ships, they just sat there waiting for their turn to be destroyed. I could have ignored them, but that was a gig galaxy and my system is not to good, so that having so many ships on the same spot was affecting perfomance a lot. It was making the game lag so much that it took me about half a minute to destroy each ship and it was a pain in the butt to scroll over that area.

One thing to keep in mind is that the AI does not cheat. This is relevant in that the AI does not know where your ships are unless your ships come within sensor range of the AI ships. Having scout ships parked all over the galaxy is one way of implementing a sensor net to see what your enemies are up to.

Perhaps I am just justifying the presence of enemy scouts all over the place, and those ships are just sitting there because there is no more space to explore. However: you know how when you have multiple scout ships set to auto-explore, and they all rush for the same piece of unexplored real estate, even when much of the galaxy has yet to be revealed? The AI ships probably use the same algorithm. I would expect the AI ships to accumulate in one part of the galaxy and not be as evenly distributed as they throughout space if they were "stuck" after autoexplore found no more area to discover. Hence, I think that the AI is intentionally leaving its ships in your space as a sensor net.

Yes, that would explain the scout ships, but the ships I was talking about were war ships. The AI just accumulated more than 100 of them at one spot next to one of its planets, without stacking them in fleets, and without moving them for the 7 or 8 turns that took me to destroy them. It's like they were just sitting there wating for their turn to be upgraded or something, but they never had enough cash.

I don't know if the AI is programmed to eventualy destroy its own ships instead of upgrading them, being the first generally a much better option even if you have the money for the second one btw. I've actually seen this behaviur more than once, but never with so many ships.

I, like always, was playing with very slow tech, and I guess that could be causing the Ai to be producing too many ships, moreover when they have an inclination to produce cheap ones.


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Maybe they were left there just to use up your movement points as the AI was building better ships?
A lot of ships cost a lot of money, so every ship you destroy also improves the AI's weekly income. Again better for building better ships without the bother of the upgrade time or the time to destroy them. Maybe the AI figures it is better just to abandon them.

I could have ignored them, but that was a gig galaxy and my system is not to good, so that having so many ships on the same spot was affecting perfomance a lot. It was making the game lag so much that it took me about half a minute to destroy each ship and it was a pain in the butt to scroll over that area.

In the "Interface" options screen you can click between "Full Battles," "Normal Battles," and "Instant Battles." "Instant" skips the animation entirely and just subtracts a move point and hit points. It would probably let you eat those hundred ships a lot faster. (I use it when I'm destroying 0-power defenders for forty turns in a row.)

In the "Interface" options screen you can click between "Full Battles," "Normal Battles," and "Instant Battles." "Instant" skips the animation entirely and just subtracts a move point and hit points. It would probably let you eat those hundred ships a lot faster. (I use it when I'm destroying 0-power defenders for forty turns in a row.)

Thanks I didn't think of that. I always have quick battles on, which us pretty "quick", but not as much as instant, I'll do that next time.

to the OP: yes, i've noticed this on larger maps too - they do the same with the flagship once the anomalies are gone - just sit in a corner somewhere...

Glad to hear that too... well kinda glad. I wish we could get a developer or someone to say that this is either a bug or just not something they were worried about in the game.