Does the AI use mothballing?

raynor · #1 February 5th, 2001, 07:56 PM

Has anyone ever seen the AI mothball a ship or base? Or, does the AI just scrap ships when it starts running low on resources?

HreDaak · #2 February 5th, 2001, 08:47 PM

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Originally posted by raynor:
Has anyone ever seen the AI mothball a ship or base? Or, does the AI just scrap ships when it starts running low on resources?

I am 99.9% sure that the AI never mothballs its ships. If it has problems to maintain them it just scraps some...

Q · #3 February 5th, 2001, 08:59 PM

Never seen the AI use mothballing and I controlled them quite a bit as you may know from the other topic.

raynor · #4 February 5th, 2001, 10:11 PM

That's what I thought.

Yet another ability *not* to use if you want to play a fair game against the AI...

Right now, I think I have more ships in mothball than I do active...

WhiteHojo · #5 February 5th, 2001, 10:36 PM

W/o some means to filter all those mothballed ships from the ship report window, doesn't sorting thru the rows & rows of mothballed ships drive you crazy?

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raynor · #6 February 6th, 2001, 10:39 AM

quote:
Originally posted by WhiteHojo:
W/o some means to filter all those mothballed ships from the ship report window, doesn't sorting thru the rows & rows of mothballed ships drive you crazy?

I don't know why I was so crazy as to increase the number of systems to 254. WAY too many systems, planets and ships. All the displays become pretty useless without filtering--mothballed ships or not.

Hopefully, that will be something they add by the 1.50 release.