Stock AI Question: Ship Analysis?

[Captain Kwok]

Well I think it would analyze the ship to gain potential new technology and not in the sense to counter with new designs.

[Zereth]

Yeah, using the "Analyze Ship" option under the recycle menu, not "Oh he's using missiles time to roll out mass quantities of PDC'. And I know it turns on more ministers rather than actual skill, I'm just wondering if one of the ministers does this.

[Kamog]

That "analyze ship" window is sometimes misleading. If the captured enemy ship has racial tech like crystalline or organic components, it lists the research potential to be big but of course you can't get those techs if you didn't pick that racial trait for your race. So you analyze the ship and get nothing.