question about techno's

[zoutzakje]

so it's been a while since i played. Noticed all the new changes and figured it's time to play a game again. 7/7 against an alarmist and techno homeworlder. 10-11 mins in i get a wave from techno, all Mk IV. cutlasses and a plasma siege. I destroyed the wave but aren't techno's supposed to start out with mk III? Or am i missing something from the latest changes? haven't played since 7.010 or so.

[Toranth]

so it's been a while since i played. Noticed all the new changes and figured it's time to play a game again. 7/7 against an alarmist and techno homeworlder. 10-11 mins in i get a wave from techno, all Mk IV. cutlasses and a plasma siege. I destroyed the wave but aren't techno's supposed to start out with mk III? Or am i missing something from the latest changes? haven't played since 7.010 or so.

Hmm.  I'm seeing the same thing:  The AI Tech level display on the GUI is showing III, but 100% of the fleet ships arriving in waves are Mk IV.

In the wave logs, I saw this:

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since technologist AI, AITechLevel = Min(4,AITechLevel+1) = 4
So it is behaving as directed...  However, when I set up a Diff 10 Technologist, it did the same thing:  Mk IV fleetships, with that same line in the logs.  This leads me to believe something went 'oops'.  Certainly the display and the actual do not match.

[zoutzakje]

yeah i don't think they're actually supposed to be mk IV. If the ships just said mk IV but had actual mk III stats it would be ok, but the whole waves are actually mk IV, from the very start of the game. Only had 3-4 waves from the techno so far but they were all mk IV. My playstyle involves taking a lot of planets, getting to high AIP a lot. I reach 210-230 AIP in just 2-3 hours which basically means that The Core would be easier to play in the long term than techno's for me atm. Not that it matters much for me since i just play 7/7 right now, but still something that should be looked into IMHO.