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Originally posted by HreDaak:
Ok guys, just modify your vehicle construction files and watch the AI kick some major butt 
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1. Do not let the AI build defense bases!!! I think that there is some sort of conflict between defense bases and colonizers, this conflict (when it appears) can cause the AI to get stuck on its build queue.
2. Avoid filling planets with stuff. This concerns especially weapon platforms as they take HUGE amounts of planets cargo space. I suggest not to build more than 1 weapon platform per planet. If you let the AI build all/almost all of it planets full of stuff it causes AI to get stuck on its build queue when it is building things that use up planetary cargo space.
After these changes i am pretty sure that the AI will never experience building problems, unless ofcourse its running out of resources...
Some time ago i was talking about changing construction.txt file so that all the AI states would use the same build list. I was using the default (malfadors) construction file. In this construction file there are defense base calls only in infrastructure AI state. When the AI changed its state to infrastructure state it sooner or later caused that conflict between colonizers and defense bases. This in turn caused the AI to stop its building...
I've known for a long time that the AI doesn't check if a planet has cargo space for what it is building. This results in loads of satellites being built and then LOST with nothing to show for the allocated resources. I have asked MM to let satellites (at least) be automatically deployed when built if there's no cargo space. But the defense base thing is odd. I can't imagine what might be going on there. BTW, the AI _does_ build colonizers even if it doesn't know of any colonizable planets. The "must have" entry in the queue works for colonizers. I've seen every "Neutral" I ever invaded keeping a colonizer at its homeworld even though there are no planets left that it can colonize. Too bad. This is also a useless drain of resources.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 05 February 2001).]