AI Production Halted Abnormally

[Omega]

Well, I’ll be damned. It would seem that there is some type of ungodly relationship between the amount of storage space an empire has and how many ships it will produce. That makes absolutely no sense.

I had set the Minimum Empire Point Storage line in the settings.txt file to 500,000. Apparently this was not high enough. I was able to get my AI to resume production by upping the storage to 1,000,000. The AI is now producing 150 new ships. It does not appear to be producing any new mines.

This has to be some kind of bug. There must be some type of logic in the build routine that is meant to cap production before resource exhaustion. I wonder if the routine looks at mineral storage capacity when it should be looking at net mineral production. Even then, the ratios of mineral production vs. construction make no sense.

I recommend that everyone set their Minimum Empire Point Storage to 1,000,000 or higher and remove all storage facility building from their AI_Construction_Facilities files. This will result in more robust AI players.

Oh, and a hearty thanks to Q to pointing me down the right path.