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Old March 23rd, 2001, 03:56 AM
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Default AI ship names

I was looking at the Enemy Ship Designs after a battle against an AI fleet with seven or eight different ships in it, and noticed a pattern. Going down the alphabetical list, the ships had progressively more advanced tech installed.

Does the AI just name ships in the order it finds the names in the design names file? If so, does recognizing that give a human player an unfair advantage over the AI? i.e. Does it help to know that the Last ship in alphabetical order is the most advanced? Maybe the AI should pick names randomly.

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