I caught the AI cheating red handed!

[Mephisto]

Just let the human use the "Intercept" button with his own ships. Easy to use, easy to understand and IMHO easy to implement.

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Originally posted by Baron Munchausen:
Isn't that something we requested? Ability to use 'merge with fleet' as an order? We've know the AI could do this for some time, I think. Being able to set a fleet as a 'destination' might do the trick.

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[geoschmo]

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Originally posted by [K126]Mephisto:
Just let the human use the "Intercept" button with his own ships. Easy to use, easy to understand and IMHO easy to implement.

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It may be easy, but it wouldn't result in the ships all arriving at the same time. They would arrive during the same turn, but not at the same time. You would end up with ships not attacking in a coordinated manner.

I tried that once to coordinate attacks with an ally against a third empire. You can give the "attack" order and point to yoru allies ship. Any time your ally moves, your ship will follow. But only afterwards, and the attacks don't happen at the same time. If your ally and the enemy both have ships remaining after the initial combat though, your ships will arrive for round two.

Geoschmo

[Cylapse]

I can't really explain the nuiance of both ships arriving at the same time, although I wager good timing could have made it happen... as for the fleet, perhaps they werent really a fleet, but simply an attack formation, per the In-combat order menu? Err, but wait - I recall that in Simultaneous, Tactical isnt allowed, so a human player couldnt have set the order for 'Group Leader and member', so its still kinda cheating...

Damn...Good eye, I figured I had it nailed down, but it eludes me still... Looks like the AI was cheating...LOL