Sledgehammer AI Type

[SenorPez]

What is the AI Bonus for the Sledgehammer AI Type (and, by extension, Technologist Sledge)? Does it reduce the time between waves, or make waves stronger, or both? How does this interact with the "the longer it's been since a wave, the stronger it'll be" mechanic?

[keith.lamothe]

What is the AI Bonus for the Sledgehammer AI Type (and, by extension, Technologist Sledge)? Does it reduce the time between waves, or make waves stronger, or both? How does this interact with the "the longer it's been since a wave, the stronger it'll be" mechanic?

Looking at the code, Sledgehammers send waves as if AIP were 30 higher (you can see that in wave calc logs as "aiTypeBasedAIPIncrement : 30") and... actually, that's really the only difference I can see in here compared to Vanilla (originally I think they tried to route all their waves at the same planet, but that was removed early on).  The fact that they have standard (rather than reduced) initial defensive levels is notable, too, but not really a bonus.

And the technologist one is the same except it has the stuff all technologists do.

[Minotaar]

Looking at the code, Sledgehammers send waves as if AIP were 30 higher

Looks like we've just found Wanderer's ultimate nightmare 

[keith.lamothe]

Looking at the code, Sledgehammers send waves as if AIP were 30 higher

Looks like we've just found Wanderer's ultimate nightmare 

No, he met that during one of his attempts on his last game: the Zenith Descendent (and a few others) get +40

[Coppermantis]

Does Spire Hammer get + anything? Or is over 2,000 ships at 140 AIP "normal"?

[TechSY730]

Looking at the code, Sledgehammers send waves as if AIP were 30 higher

Looks like we've just found Wanderer's ultimate nightmare 

No, he met that during one of his attempts on his last game: the Zenith Descendent (and a few others) get +40

Is there a list of these increases, or at least an easy to query property or function?

[Hearteater]

Is there a list of these increases, or at least an easy to query property or function?

Keith posted them here.

[PokerChen]

They are now wiki-ed.