What Keeps Neutral AI from Exploring?

[Q]

Originally posted by Andres:
Q, wasn't that before this fix:

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from history.txt
Version 1.44:
7. Fixed - Neutral players would sometimes leave their home systems.

IIRC you would jump WPs most times accidentally from time to time before that.

CNC, like Rollo said, make sure that AIs can design and do build some "attack ship", "attack base" or "carrier" early in the game, since only those design types will explore.

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You must be right. It was a long time ago I observed this and I did not remember the change in Version 1.44 (and the fix is not explained in much detail, isn't it?). As it is now it seems really impossible for a neutral empire, even if completely under human control, to warp.

[Loser]

Originally posted by Rollo:
The AI does not use Attack Bases in fleets. Instead it sends them out alone. So they fullfil the role as scouts quite well.

If you put a Colony requirement on these Attack Bases will they use it?

Can this be done to make the AI explore with its Colony Ships?

Is it advisable for the AI to explore with its Colony Ships (cancerous expansion!)?

[Captain Kwok]

I think the idea of a neutral race using a star destroyer is to further isolate themselves from the rest of the galaxy by eliminating the systems around them and making them worthless and unoccupied.

Perhaps they should also use Warp Closers to cut off warp points into their system too?

[Puke]

Geo ran a game called the Neutral Challenge, a while back. Everyone played a neutral race and had to go out and meet the galaxy. Trouble was, when they converted the players from AI to Human, the hard code limits didnt let them leave their system.

I think they worked around it by copying each neutral into the regular RACES folder, so that they could be added to the game without the hard-coded "dont warp" restriction.

[Hugh Manatee]

this thread reminds me of the Krikkit kinda....

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