What Weapons do AI-Empires use?
 

I like the SE4-demo very much and play it almost every day. Most bugs will surely be sorted out soon and everything's cool.
There's just one thing that somewhat bothers me: The attack ships my AI opponents (those without a special tech-tree like organic etc.) use always have the same three weapon types: depleted uranium cannons, anti-proton-beams and capital ship missiles. I can't remember any of them having used, for example, meson bLasters.
In games with all tech, it's mostly graviton hellbore, wave-motion-guns or sometimes shield damaging weapons.
I think I haven't seen plasma or torpedo after more of a dozen games. Is this because there's only 8 races in the demo who are restricted to these weapons? Is the AI still not advanced enough to use all weapons?
Even when I construct my own AI-opponents, they are restricted to these weapon types, again with the exception of organic, crystalline etc. races.
When I constructed races in SE3, I could choose which weapons they should use. This is not possible in the SE4 game setup menu.
I wish they would change that. SE4 should not give you less choices than SE3 in any area of the game.

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Trust me, you will see them. We are playing a multi-player game over on the beta side and the AI has ships that are pounding us to death with Plasma torpedoes. There isn't a weapon I haven't seen during the beta testing.

Remember, you may get what you ask for when you don't want it. :}

Re: What Weapons do AI-Empires use?
 

I'm playing a game now where the Eee Consortium are using Anti-Proton Beams, Ripper Beams, Incinerator Beams, Wave Motion Guns, Fighters and Carriers. So far I've been holding them at bay by sheer numbers and heavy mining of warp points. I'm now planning to steal some of their ships to get their higher tech and then go on the offensive.

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You can change which weapons the computer players use by screwing around with the AI ship design files. This is absolutely necessary if you are making a mod and change the family numbers on your weapons. If you don't, the computer won't have a clue what to put on its ships.

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I have also had the AI use torps and a variety of other weapons. Even seen them use mine fields, well they where going to but I (by chance) subverted the ship before it could deploy the mines. Have not went that deep into their territory since, so not sure it they built a new ship or mined any planets. Border planets seem to focus on fighters and WP's for protection.