Why the AI builds the Ships it does

[Atraikius]

Miss-read post first time -

1st part - yes I have observed that.

2nd part - as my earlier post - when AI has ships with different weapons combinations it seems to evaluate them in some way because it does not neccessarily build the first one in the list, or the most recently designed/newest tech one - in the attack ship/tender example I stated previously, when I switched the tender strategy to optimal/short - the AI switched to building the attack ship although the tender was both a newer design, and had newer technology components on it, while the attack ship came before the tender in the design file.