fighter supremacy in solo play

[Master Belisarius]

Originally posted by oleg:
The single worst AI problem is its inflexibility. It is very easy to make AI that will be almost invulnerable to Fighters, but then human will use normal beam ships and walk over it. Most AIs are made to be (semi)efficient against average, generic opponent.

Mostly agree with you. Does exist a few near to inteligent reactions: lay mines inside the suns if the AI know the opponents is using sun destroyers, and research mines more fast (to get mine-sweepers), if the opponent was using mines (although I'm not sure if this Last feature was not removed).
As AI modder, always wanted to have a way to MOD some triggers (for example, if the opponent is using many fighters/seekers, include PDC ships in the fleets, if the opponent is using claked ships research sensors more fast), and for this, I suggested some kind of languague to "program" the AI behavior... My wihs/hope is that for SE5 (or SE6?) we could have something like this!