Dealing with the four mkV simultaneous counterwaves got a bit hectic.
Yea, maybe you even had to give some of the FRD defenders direct commands!
Congratulations on conquering the galaxy, I'm sure the 5 people left will enjoy your overlordship
much more than the previous one.
I should mention that the AI apparently no longer considers fabricators a valid target. Even if AI ships happen to be within firing range, they don't bother to kill fabs.
Yea, there's a bug in the recent thing I did to try to get "pop golem in, wait a few seconds, pop golem out" to not be such an effective "distract just about any AI attack ever" tactic. I've got a fix for that but the AI code's currently all over the surgery table with the revisions to get it to consider nearby mobile human strength. So looking to get that fix and the other stuff out on Monday.
This nearby-mobile-strength thing has some amusing side effects. I'm using the battle-of-midnight save for primary sanity testing and not currently getting a lot of sanity. Basically that mega-death-fleet on Midnight is providing effective "coverage" to all the outlying human systems (all within 3 hops) and thus the AI CPA launches and... sits there, scared
stiff of the fleet on Midnight.
But it's not such a bad play, as when the synchronized exos come in (and they never wait for anything) and start engaging the Midnight defenders the rest of the CPA typically gets the message and starts attacking because the amount of "nearby mobile strength" a planet contributes to the others within 3 hops is (allied_local_mobile_strength - enemy_local_total_strength). It's debatable whether the AI should wait on those outlying attacks (as they can quickly reduce the energy available to you _before_ the exos hit) but I'm guessing that it makes sense assuming the player's actually controlling their mobile units.
Still a bunch of strange behavior to work through, but the whole thing's shot through with logging code so I should be able to figure it out.
