AI barracks and carriers

[Collic]

Just a quick question. Are these intended to appear in the base game, or is this just something for the expansion packs? I haven't seen the ai build any of these as yet, and I've played a game through to its conclusion since the 4.0 release. Sadly, i'm currently very poor and can't pick up any expansions at the moment - i intend to when I'm able, of course. (when i say poor i mean, can barely pay my rent poor before people tell me i should buy them! ).

[Lancefighter]

these are a late-game, almost 'stalemate breaker' units.
The general idea is that as a planet reinforces, it will decide to make a barracks. After a while, if another barracks is supposed to spawn, it will spawn a carrier instead, which basically is like a (beefy, with guns) AI transport.

[keith.lamothe]

Yea, they're not expansion-specific, they just aren't part of the AI's normal tactics but rather based on reinforcement saturation.

[orzelek]

And I don't think I seen one of them in almost 20h game. I'm not sure but devourer maybe quite good anti-barracks measure. Planets bordering me that are left for long to reinforce are getting to around 500-600 on low caps and not barracking anything yet.

[Winter Born]

If the per planet AI ship caps / baracks caps dont scale with the ship cap modifier then I would expect to see them only late in  High cap games and never on low cap games.

could be breaking the mechanic for most players.

[Collic]

Hmm, is their appearance based on reinforcement saturation across all planets?  If so perhaps that's why I haven't seen them.