Next Upgrade/patch

[Phoenix-D]

"What will happen to smaller ships (after MC tech is researched) if they are retrofitted. Will a MC integrated automatically into the ship designs, too?"

If the AI is still using the smaller ships by that point, yes.

Phoenix-D

[Rexxx]

Thanks, Phoenix-D.
Wow, that was a quick answer, it surpassed my editing easily.

[Fyron]

I thought AIs didn't retrofit ships?

[Mephisto]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I thought AIs didn't retrofit ships?

Sure it does. When there is a valid not obsolete design at hand and the ships have nothing do to, they will either retrofit or train at a training centre. Unfortunately, the Ai keeps its ships busy moving from system to system so it rarely retrofits or trains.

[Q]

The changes made in the next patch concerning master computers are important and I changed my mind about eliminating master computer completely from my games.
That the AI uses master computers now is great if the cost of master computers are reduced. Otherwise the construction time of small ships like colonizers increase too much. But this is very easy to modify.
My second change should prevent the doom of psychic races (the master computer makes the allegiance converter completely ineffective): I plan to make the master computer a racial technology and give it only to few (anorganic/mechanoid) races.

[mottlee]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
I thought AIs didn't retrofit ships?

My AI has a lot of 2 name class ships

[Rexxx]

Originally posted by Q:
That the AI uses master computers now is great if the cost of master computers are reduced. Otherwise the construction time of small ships like colonizers increase too much. But this is very easy to modify.

Well, that's a big "if". If not - just as you said - the "X" for expansion will getting very very small.