September 13th, 2002, 04:01 PM
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Re: Space Empires 2 and warp point defense
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Originally posted by Rollo:
Yeah, not with modding. But Aaron could teach them. The AI is supposed to use some percentage of its fleets for defense. These fleets could guard warp points between 'secure' systems and contested systems or try to cut of enemy reinforcements to contested systems. This would be a step towards a better strategic behavoir of the AI.
Rollo
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Makes you wonder if Aaron specifically chose not to set the AI up to defend warp points in SE4. Maybe it was an issue of balancing planetary defense and warp point defense.
I'd also like to see the AI build bases in "uninhabited" systems, i.e. build bases in asteroid field systems, nebulas, etc. As long as it knew enough not to build in a black hole system  But the AI has never been good at that, not even in SE2 or SE3 (at least not that I recall).
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