SEIV is my first shrapnel game and overall I am quite impressed. However I have a few questions (hopes) about the AI and plans for a patch. If these have already been covered please forgive me - I read some of the Posts, but there are too many to read entirely.
1) Does the AI ever make fleets?? It seems that the AI will attack me piece-meal even when the odds are clearly in my favor.
2) Does the AI ever use stellar manipulation? I had planned a game where we started in clusters without warp points, in the hope that I would have a nice build-up before battle - the AI never seemed to have left a rather limited system time and time again.
3) Does the AI ever attack planets in order to occupy them?? I have never seen it use ground troops, just wipe a planet if it is able.
This game is SO CLOSE to being ideal - that I really hope they will patch the AI. I realize there are a ton of issues to cover, but combat tweaking would seem to make the most difference in terms of difficulty.
Finally, I am not a technical person - so would someone be willing to step me through improvements to the files if needed?
Thanks
Jason2