AI War Beta 6.024-6.025 "The Squeaky Wheel Gets The Buff (or Nerf)" Released!

[TechSY730]

Removing AI engineers entirely?

That seems to be a bit...extreme way to solve the problem...

I mean, with the last change the AI engineers went through, the AI actually uses them pretty well; using them to repair more often than not.

It was just in a few cases that they didn't for some reason.

Granted, there wasn't much left that they could repair; fleet ships, starships, hybrids, and I think AI command stations are pretty much the only things left that the AI still has that they can repair.
But still, the AI using repairing those could really help the AI in a fight, or recovering from a retreat.

[Bognor]

Drone health from 2000*mk => 40k*mk (so about half a fighter, now)

Typo there, *2000 --> 20

I'm not sure I understand, their previous hp value was 2000*mk, not 20*mk.  Nor 20k*mk if that's what you meant

Sorry, I was reading the hp of the Enclave Starship.  Which is 20M, not 20, so double oops.

[Lancefighter]

If you remove engineers, how am I supposed to capture them as a champion only player ? It would ruin my strats of being able to do nothing with them !

[ussdefiant]

my current nagging mapgen bugs of the moment is summed up here:http://arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=11091 The +lvl guardposts have already been mentioned, but i'm also pretty sure that Spireling AIs aren't supposed to have 3 Mk IV counterattack posts full of Blade Spawners and other Fun Things 2 jumps from my HW, Diff 8 or no. The NCB, while apparently quite behaved in the guard post department, could probably stand to have the HP on its clusters buffed a bit, as even a moderate sized attack force could blow one away before the inhabitants could do anything to discourage it.

[TechSY730]

Just so it doesn't seem like I whine all the time, I'm very glad to see many of those long-standing AI bugs finally fixed.

[Kahuna]

http://arcengames.com/mantisbt/view.php?id=11091

I get "APPLICATION WARNING #2702: Your session has become invalidated." when I click that link.

[MaxAstro]

BTW, Keith, I'm still getting that issue with the Spire Corvette's Plasma Cannon graphics being missing.

I made a mantis issue (here) and attached a screenshot of the error that displays when I first try to zoom in on a Corvette.

[keith.lamothe]

New one

I didn't get to adjusting the nebula rewards (to address those parts that don't scale with champ count) or the advanced-hybrid mobilization stuff for this one, but there's some interesting stuff in there.

[Valorian_Nova]

I think I will miss not having an Enclave ship able to produce Mark IV ships.  Although I admit that I usually only use them when I don't have access, at least not easily, to an advanced factory so I kind of liked another route to get it even with the knowledge cost involved.  Guess I will just have to make due.