some questions about SEIV

[klausD]

Hi all,
I would like to ask you some questions regarding SEIV, if you dont mind. Many thanks for answering.

-recently I attacked an enemy AI Fleet per tactical combat in a sector with an empty planet. The sizes of both fleets have been large. (I had 120 ships in wall formation and my enemy in about 55 in a kind of spider formation)

But what I do not understand is why my fleet was already in the center of the tactical screen beginning from the first turn of the combat. And the weird thing was the enemy AI fleet was in the center of the screen too. So both fleets began the combat partially intermixed and in close combat range of 1-5 squares from the first turn on. Normally the fleets starts at the outer edge of the tactical screen and not in the center (except warp assaults) Do you have any explanation about this odd event?

-other questions about some lines in the "AI-default setting" file.
what does that mean? And which effect do you think have these lines to the AI behaviour?
-Turns to Wait until next attack
-Maximum Systems to Defend at a Time
-Get Angry Over Allied Colonizable Planets
-Get Angry Over Enemy Colonizable Planets
-Percentage of Allied Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger
-Percentage of Enemy Planets to consider as Attack Locations for Anger

Again thank you in advance for your time.
bye
Klaus