Better AI Idea - modders please read

[Master Belisarius]

Vrlen: I can see your view. For this, still my AI races have minesweepers... But you will see that the more sucesfull AIs, have minesweepers included into their attack ships also.

Jourin: I like your idea to separate the queues. But I can see a problem: we never know in what state is the AI (well, except in the starting game, when occur the Exploration phase). And also, we never know how many time the AI will be in the same phase, and we're unable to change the AI phase (hard coded).

I had the same idea than you, when I started my first attempts to do a decent AI: I did the Attack queue with a low number of items, and removed the Colony ships from this queue. Big mistake! The AI was a loooong time without build Colony ships... and then, died very fast.

After lots and lots of hours testing SE4 AI scripts, I prefer to use looong queues.