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Originally posted by Krakenup:
How does the AI tell if your colony has a weapon platform defending it? I have had the AI zig-zag through my defended colonies to get to the one undefended colony at the back of the system, blow it up, and zig-zag back out. I have had the AI make a beeline for an undefended colony, and then, when I built a weapon platform, turn around and go back. How does the AI know? Can I tell if an AI colony has a weapon platform without going into tactical combat?
I have seen something like this. I played a sequence of games where I started with the complete tech tree. If I didn't defend my planets, the first AI ship in the system would glass them.
Then I changed my build pattern to:
1st turn, emergency-build small mines.
2nd turn, launch the mines and build yard-bases.
I have never had an AI step on one of these planets until much later in the game. Even if I don't build any ships, they don't attack the planets.
Maybe it is just chance.
Maybe the AI is looking at the difference in our scores and deciding to leave me alone.
Maybe the AI knows somehow that the planets are defended.
Miles