Planetary bombardment(genocide)

[Tomgs]

Those of you that want to know if the computer will use troops to invade you I at least know that they do load troops into transports. I captured an enemy troop transport in one game using the intelligence operation. It only had 6 troops on it but I then used it to capture two of the enemy planets and gave myself a nice foothold in the system .
I haven't seen the AI actually using the troop transports but that is probably because I usually take the fight to their systems so they don't get much ofa chance to fight in my teritory. My guess is that if I just waited and didn't attack them first maybe made treaties with all of them till they turned on me that could happen.

[ashbery]

I still havent been invaded with ai troops,i dont think the a.i build them enough if ever.I wiped out most of an empire with a 1 troop ship,it was quite funny aswell because i invaded a a.i planet then left and invaded another and of course the a.i would wipe out the planet of there own people i did this to 10 planets in there own territory,so they ended up destroying there own empire when then only needed to invade.I think this bombardment problem needs sorting out with a patch so the a.i doesnt rely on just mass genocide.And like james said there should be diplomatic Penalties for destroying a planet population.

[Noble713]

Take a look at the Default_AI_Construction_Vehicles.txt file.

Of the 6 or so entries, only 2 of them even have transports listed (infrastructure and defense). For infrastructure, it is set to 1 transport per 10 planets and 1 troop per planet. Minimum requirements are 1 transport and 0 troops. For defense, it requires at least 1 transport no matter what, and 1 troop per planet with a minimum of 2 troops.

First , that's nowhere near enough troops to accomplish anything, and probably not enough transports either (not for the AI anyway, a human could probably do ok). Second, these things are so far down the construction queue the computer probably doesn't get to them anyway. Third, neither of the attack AI states has troops or transports listed. THAT's why they just come in and glass our planets. What's the good news? Each and every one of us can play around with this file and report his or her findings (HINT HINT).