genocide vs ground assault

[jc173]

Recently I captured a really well developed alien world with about 2000m population. I left the world a bit prematurely to hit an enemy fleet and the AI snuck in a dreadnought and glassed its former planet. It might be just me, but shouldn't the AI try to recapture one of its own planets probably. Especially one that has full facilities and a huge population?

[Noble713]

Yes, it should. Does it? No. The AI almost never invades a world, even if it has troops and the ships to transport them. This is related to the AI not having any memory, so it isn't aware that the planet was once its own, or that it just glassed 2 billion people of its own race.

[jc173]

Wish they'd change that. It would make more sense for the AI to wait a few turns to gather forces for a planetary assault rather than just glass the planet and recolonize it. Should be able insert a routine into the attack targeting algorithm that looks at the size/value/population/facilities on the planet and decide to assault instead of vaporizing if the value is past a certain threshold. Add a higher weight to the population if it's the same as the AI's race.

[mottlee]

I have had the AI drop troops 1 time this was on a world that I had just taken,(was a 1 sided fight) tho I have yet to have them do it again (KILL KILL)

[Triumvir Emphy]

The question i have is did the AI have the forces to hold that planet incase you came back, if i didn't have the power to hold that territory i would have glassed my own planet too.

[Jason2]

Always glass planets - always It is too much of a pain IMHO to keep other races - often makes it more confusing (although that might just be a comment on my own grey matter abilities...). By the time I'm conquering the whole galaxy I almost always have all 3 techs for colonizing... so I just send ships with transports full of my own race....


Jason2