AI Use of Stellar Manipulation

[Alpha Kodiak]

How have you seen the AI use stellar manipulation?

I tried one game with no warp points, and when the various AIs built warp point openers, they started using them like mad. Now, in a an all-warp-points-connected game, the Rage built a warp point opener a few turns ago, and all it does is sit at the planet where it was built.

The AI is using planet creators consistently, and I have had the AI use a black hole crearor against me in the past.

Does anyone know if there is a way to get the AI to use the warp point opener in a game where everything is already connected?

[Tampa_Gamer]

Alpha - I played a game with the Last patch 1.41? and the AI races were using openers against me like crazy. Several races were using them (both default and mod) - this was a connected game. However, like you I have seen other games where the AI will build them and not use them at all. I do not know what triggers it, but they do use them.

-TG


[This message has been edited by Tampa_Gamer (edited 10 November 2001).]

[Atrocities]

Yes, I have, and it is chaos. I mean that, they open warp points all over hell and back and sometimes to the same system repeatedly.

I often disable that technology so I don't have to worry about it.

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[Deathstalker]

Anyone ever seen them use Planet Destroyers?? And as for star destroying/black hole creation do they do this 'smart' or do they blow themselves out of the water while doing it.

"Captain! We have done it! We created a Black Hole. Umm.....Unfortunately it was created in the middle of the fleet!"

I just have visions of the AI destroying perfectly colonizable planets and wrecking their whole empire by opening a black hole in their home system to destroy an enemy frigate or something.

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[Menschenfresser]

I have only seen them use Warp Point closing tech.

Was partnered with them and I didn't pay much attention to this lone ship floating about in my homesystem. They closed a WP which effectively cut my empire in two, and I hadn't developed any stellar manip yet.

Worst I have seen.

[Alpha Kodiak]

I did see one AI in v1.49 use a warp point closer to stop a large scale attack from another AI. In that instance, it seemed like an intelligent use of the tech.