One reason for strange AI attack behavior

[Alpha Kodiak]

Ok, now I observed another interesting quirk. This one is probably related to the situation raynor was asking about. I set up a one-on-one with the Earth Alliance to test some tweaks I was making to my AI. There happened to be a nebula system between the two empires, so it was interesting watching both sides and seeing ships passing each other without seeing each other. Then, my AI sent a satelite layer to drop a satelite on the warp point leading into the nebula system from my side. An EA destroyer popped through and destroyed my ship and the satellite it dropped, but it took moderate damage in the process. When my turn came around I watched one of my destroyers approach the warp point, and I was thinking, "Now you'll pay!" Unfortunately, I guess the destroyer was under orders sending it through the nebula to hit something on the other side, so it wouldn't attack the EA destroyer on the warp point. Instead, it did a little side-to-side dance in front of the warp point until it was out of movement points. The next turn, the EA destroyer disappeared back into the nebula system and escaped.