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Originally posted by klausD:
... Do you have any explanation about this odd event?

It happens when there are many ships and/or any big object in the sector, such as a planet. It's a limit of the program that it doesn't place ships very fairly in all situations, especially with many ships involved, or if both fleets are travelling the same direction.

-other questions about some lines in the "AI-default setting" file.
what does that mean? And which effect do you think have these lines to the AI behaviour?
-Turns to Wait until next attack

I think it means turns the AI will wait before ordering another attack on an alien location. The lower the number, the more frequently it will order new attacks on enemies.

-Maximum Systems to Defend at a Time

The AI makes a (lame) attempt to protect its systems by assigning a fleet or some ships to some of its systems. But it won't try to defend all of them at once. This tells it how many to try to defend. I'm not sure what the other limits of the algoritm are, but it never seems to do a very good job of defending anyway.

-Get Angry Over Allied Colonizable Planets

Determines whether an AI gets mad at allied empires when it sees that they have colonized planets which it could colonize. I'm not sure if this is based on colonizer tech or breathable status, or both.

-Get Angry Over Enemy Colonizable Planets

Same thing, but referring to enemy empires it is already hostile towards.

-Percentage of Allied Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger

Again, a measure of how many of the allied planets should generate hostility for this AI. Implies it may be related to the field for anger from attacks. I.e., if the AI is set to get mad at allied colonizable planets, it sees 10 such planets, and this is set to 20%, it might get as mad as if it had been attacked twice but taken no losses. At least, that's my guess at what this means.

-Percentage of Enemy Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger

Same but for hostile empires.

I have a question for you, if you're in Vienna. How's "Damage Unlimited" doing? Has to be my favorite name for a game store that I've ever seen.

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