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Originally posted by Alpha Kodiak:
Look in the ai_design file and see if there are multiple attack ship designs for the Piundon. See if there is a ship class that maxes out at frigates. Gold may be cycling through the designs in a different way than earlier Versions did.
I'm afraid I haven't been able to explore too much of that myself, as I was doing all of my Gold work on my laptop and it is still recovering from my 20 month old daughter's little milk spilling incident. 
Yes, they do have separate design entries for each ship class. That explains it. Still, pre-Gold SE IV would ignore smaller ships and this situation does not happen.