AI not surveying

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I'm just posting this in case the developers haven't noticed yet. As of beta 3D, I have never seen a computer player actually build a survey ship. Before respawning anomalies, that was largely irrelevant, but now it gives the player a large advantage, because of the slowly accumulating stat boni. If the AI continued surveying as well, the fun of anoms would remain while not being lopsided
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
They only survey with thier Flagship, and they only mine with thier space miners.

Bug, probabaly, or feature, im not sure.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yes, AIs definitely need to build survey ships. Currently, if you bribe various civs to go to war, they will generally kill off each others' flagships, leaving all the anomalies for the player. Respawning anomalies only makes this worse.

Of course, we also want to avoid issues similar to the current TA miner-spam, but programming moderation is apparently not even as easy as it sounds (and it sounds like a real pain in the ass).
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