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Originally posted by Omega:
The AI has some truly odd production limitations. The number of ships that it builds is limited directly by the amount of storage that it has available. Even if the AI has massive amounts of minerals available, it will still stop production when some arbitrary ratio of ships vs. storage is reached. This is hard coded into the game. This can be circumvented by raising the Minimum Empire Point Storage value in the settings.txt file to an astronomically high number. Mine is currently set at 5000000.
Is this still the case with the new patch? I know that the patch was supposed to get a line in the ai files working that went something like this:
Max percentage maintenance over production
or something like that anyway. The line is supposed to tell the ai to stop building ships if it's maintenance costs exceed x% of its resource production.
I'm guessing that the storage ratio thing you found was a stopgap fix for the ai until he got the % thing fixed. Sooooo, now that it's fixed......
just my overpriced $0.02