AI, Defend Thyself (mine question)

[Emperor's Child]

Is there any way to prod the AI to use mines defensively around a planet? Anytime I make them, they just apparently sit in planetary cargo warehouses until a minelayer takes them away.

Is this something that requires an enemy to attack, and then they will be launched?

[mottlee]

I have run into the AI using mines at WP but not around planets, I have attacted some and they have mines as cargo and they did not release them this was in both 1.49 and Gold

[Growltigga]

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Originally posted by Emperor's Child:
Is there any way to prod the AI to use mines defensively around a planet? Anytime I make them, they just apparently sit in planetary cargo warehouses until a minelayer takes them away.

Is this something that requires an enemy to attack, and then they will be launched?

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emporors child, you need to launch mines built on a planetary surface just as you do satellites or fighters - build the mines or ship them in and then just hit the "I" key and mark 'mines' -
personally, I like mines as planetary system defence weaponry - nothing makes me laugh so much as watching my hot seat chum running into a whopping big mine field with his troop transports just when he has withdrawn his sweepers back to base

[Emperor's Child]

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emporors child, you need to launch mines built on a planetary surface just as you do satellites or fighters - build the mines or ship them in and then just hit the "I" key and mark 'mines' -
personally, I like mines as planetary system defence weaponry - nothing makes me laugh so much as watching my hot seat chum running into a whopping big mine field with his troop transports just when he has withdrawn his sweepers back to base.

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Uh.. I think you misunderstood me. I'm talking about the AI here. Specifically, can you make the AI use the very effective tactic of defending is planets with mines? I've only seen it defend warp points with these things and can't figure out how to make them defend planets with them. Is there a way to make it do this?

[Tampa_Gamer]

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Originally posted by Emperor's Child:
Specifically, can you make the AI use the very effective tactic of defending is planets with mines?

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Currently, no. But this item is very high on a list of AI tweaks that we gold beta testers submitted to MM. So we will see what happens.

-TG

[Growltigga]

Oops, sorry emperor's child, I reread your post and yes, you were quite right and I got the wrong end of the stick

How do you north americans say it?

Doh!!!!