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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: AI Ship Hoarding
« Reply #15 on: November 30, 2012, 03:59:03 pm »
Would moving to the threatfleet actually make those ships end their siege? By the sound of it they're camping in front of the only accessible human planet. Where else should they go?
The threatfleet hangs back a few hops unless it actually intends to attack a planet, at which point it goes and piles up on the target wormhole, waits until enough of the gang is on hand, and goes on through.  If the balance of power changes such that it no longer thinks it can win it pulls back to a waiting planet again.
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Re: AI Ship Hoarding
« Reply #16 on: November 30, 2012, 05:07:28 pm »
Would moving to the threatfleet actually make those ships end their siege? By the sound of it they're camping in front of the only accessible human planet. Where else should they go?
The threatfleet hangs back a few hops unless it actually intends to attack a planet, at which point it goes and piles up on the target wormhole, waits until enough of the gang is on hand, and goes on through.  If the balance of power changes such that it no longer thinks it can win it pulls back to a waiting planet again.

I am not too sure about that. I often see at least half of the threat in my games, only some 10,000 ships or so, just sitting at the wormholes waiting to attack, were the other half is just flying around and then get redeployed quite often. I think something is bugged in that chain somewhere.

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Re: AI Ship Hoarding
« Reply #17 on: November 30, 2012, 05:20:01 pm »
Would moving to the threatfleet actually make those ships end their siege? By the sound of it they're camping in front of the only accessible human planet. Where else should they go?
The threatfleet hangs back a few hops unless it actually intends to attack a planet, at which point it goes and piles up on the target wormhole, waits until enough of the gang is on hand, and goes on through.  If the balance of power changes such that it no longer thinks it can win it pulls back to a waiting planet again.

I am not too sure about that. I often see at least half of the threat in my games, only some 10,000 ships or so, just sitting at the wormholes waiting to attack, were the other half is just flying around and then get redeployed quite often. I think something is bugged in that chain somewhere.

This combined with the strange behavior on reload mentioned above lend to the theory that something is fishy/buggy with threat, threat fleet, and maybe special forces is going on.

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Re: AI Ship Hoarding
« Reply #18 on: December 02, 2012, 05:24:24 am »
I was testing some stuff and now there's 9469 firepower camping next to my home planet (thank you Super Fortress). Cheats are enabled cause I just wanted to try stuff. All of that would be possible to reproduce without cheats. Building the Super Fortress without cheats would probably take 15 hours though.

The question is: will they ever attack?
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