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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
There's one more quirk to the AI design process, Mephisto. Each of those Misc. abilities is looked for in available components and added SEPERATELY without checking if the ship already has the ability. If you created ships with inherent stealth abilities (like the "Super Stealth" races in Stars! have) then the AI would still put a cloaking device in them even if it was no better than the hull's inherent ability. ...A simple loop. 
I'm not sure how you would fix that. It looks for the _best_ available ability each time, of course. It would have to do some sort of check of the ship in each go-round, I guess, comparing the ship's current abilities with the component.
Yep I can vouch for that having tried to design expensive components that combine ecm and combat sensors. Sure enough the AI stuck two modules in the ship which really jacked up the price and maintenance cost. Should be easy enough to nest a search loop inside the construction loop to check if an ability exists already. I'd also like for them to add in a flag so certain components only end up on warships, not every support ship in the fleet.