When AI scrap ships ?

[oleg]

I do not understand it. Full coffers, positive income, AI plays with bonus. Yet, at some moment it decides to scrap quite a few ships. Few turns later it start to build ships of same class. Normally it is not a big deal, ship here, ship there. But I saw several times how AI scraps base space yards ! Now THAT is a problem - in Proportions most shipbuiding is done by base space yards and AI can sometimes become completely stagnant I use a very high "percentage of income for maintanence" in AI_settings, like 95%. May be that is problem. Would it help if I make it lower ? Once again AI has no resource shortages

[ March 02, 2003, 07:11: Message edited by: oleg ]

[oleg]

All right. I asked this question long time ago and apparently nobody have any ideas.

Why AI scraps ships when it has no problem with resources ?? I was hoping 1.84 fixed this problem
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2. Fixed - Computer Players which had a "Computer Player Bonus" set above
None were not using all of their bonus funds.
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But now I think not. AI is still scrapping ships even though the net income is possitive.
It really ruins Proportions game when AI scraps all orbital shipyards.

[Taz-in-Space]

This is just a guess:

Perhaps the AI is hard-coded to scrap and rebuild ships and bases rather than refit old ships and bases. This would require less decision making on the AI's part. Perhaps this is a question for Malfador.

[oleg]

Originally posted by Taz-in-Space:
This is just a guess:

Perhaps the AI is hard-coded to scrap and rebuild ships and bases rather than refit old ships and bases. This would require less decision making on the AI's part. Perhaps this is a question for Malfador.

No, AI refit ships very happily. That should not be a problem. However, it is possible that some ship/bases designs have not been improved for long time (no relevent advances) and AI scrap very old designs. But I am not sure about this. Of course MM can answer this but I did't have much luck communicating with him (no replays)

[Q]

Oleg how did you observe this?
Was the AI empire temporaryly switched to human control? In this case the computer bonus would not be granted anymore and if the maintenance costs exceed the production the activated minister will scrap ships.

[oleg]

No, AI scraps ships still under its control. I keep track of save games (classic turns) and then take look back into them, switching AI to my control and checking the events log and statistics. Really puzzles to me.