Anyone try repair ships for the AI yet?

Atraikius · #1 July 18th, 2001, 12:38 PM

On the bright side - at least we know there should be at least three attack ships to work with as (from what I understand) using boarding ships and Troop transports is exclusive as they both require the fleet strategy to be set appropriately, so by having AI build some cheep troops and ensuring that the troop ship has only one cargo, the troop ship can be used as a attack ship design.

Just a note on troops/planetary assaults - in my current game my Orks currently have SIX planets that they have captured and held long enough to build them up (there also in first place with 880K - captured planets making significant difference, with second place having 350K - I'm at a lowly 6th with 200K)

Atraikius · #2 August 23rd, 2001, 04:21 PM

***bump***

Rollo and MB - heres the thread I was refering to.

Rollo · #3 August 23rd, 2001, 07:44 PM

Thanks, Atraikius,
this is exactly what I had in mind

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Judging from the dates of the earlier Posts, this topic must have been just "before my time". Either that or I skipped it, because I was not interested in AI stuff a few weeks ago

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Rollo

Sinapus · #4 August 23rd, 2001, 08:57 PM

Well, I've been modding the Terrans a bit and added a repair ship in the design file. From what I can tell, they will build one, but haven't seen one go off and repair a crippled ship.

I have the same design in some files I made for Neutrals. They tend to build at least two repair ships. Haven't seen them go after any cripples that sometimes result in battles.

I'm guessing I'm going to have to set the individual ship minister for my own race and see if it will send a ship over to repair another ship.

Master Belisarius · #5 August 24th, 2001, 12:57 AM

Thank you Atraikius!

Baron Munchausen · #6 August 24th, 2001, 04:06 AM

I've never seen the AI use a space yard ship to repair other ships, even though it builds them. I think this is another area where the AI is not "finished" yet.

Master Belisarius · #7 August 24th, 2001, 05:09 AM

Nope, I saw an Ork shipyard, repairing the damaged engines of one ship.
The bad thing, was that I saw a Pyrochette shipyard, building a defensive base into the space! This was when I decided to don't build shipyards anymore!

I think that's more useful, make ship designs with Repair Bays.