AI masses ships when planet flips - phantom AI rally point?

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Sometimes when you flip an AI world due to cultural influence the AI will send ship after ship, fleet after fleet to mass alongside the flipped planet. This happens if the planet had its own ships in orbit and they get dumped into real space when the planet flips.

The buildup continues for gameyears and the AI doesnt do anything with the ships/fleets if they arent involved in a war. Its like a phantom AI rally point.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
No, it's a real rally point, although why they're still using it is beyond me.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Have you had your computer crash to the desktop when a planet flips? This seems to be connected to that bug. I would speculate that the computer has established the rally point earlier and continues to use it after the planet flips just as it did before the defection. Of course, the ships cannot enter the planet's orbit anymore, and they get stuck instead.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had the computer keep rallying to a flipped planet as well. It did make it real easy to sucker punch about half of his fleets since he was rallying in my space...
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The AI wasnt rallying ships/fleets to the planet prior to flipping. And if you flip a number of planets you sometimes get multiple rally points.

Yeah, it does make it easy to sucker punch the AI, they can have as much as half their entire offensive ships at 2-3 of my planets, and normally they dont sort into fleets very well, alot of single warships. Makes for a very easy takedown.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
That's interesting. I have (had, poor Arceans) a really good example of this in my current game. I don't think he was rallying to that planet before, now that you mention it. Not 100% on that though.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In one game, the Arceans kept sending freighters to my homeworld and just leaving them there, because they had already maxed out their number of trade routes (that's the only possible explanation, anyway). It got so annoying--having several freighters clogging up my space for no reason--that I started buying them all up, and then used them to establish my own trade routes, or upgraded them to constructors. They never did stop building freighters and sending them over, either.

Hopefully the 1.3 update will fix up a lot of those weird behaviors.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have seen these sometimes and just role-played that it was a AI graveyard of old ships