Anyone try repair ships for the AI yet?

[Tampa_Gamer]

So do you think that their "willingness" to join a fleet may be based on their type of weaponry? If so, what layouts seem to be working and which do not. This is very interesting. This will definitely open up some new doors in AI design if this is working now. Cool

[Atraikius]

Oops on that Last post of mine - problem with going from memory at work.

Had the Boarding and Kamakaze ships flipped around, so it should have been 100% of the boarding ships are being included in fleets. I also had flipped the ship designs in the AI that was using the other type (Kamakaze)so it turned out they were also boarding ships.

Attack Ships, Attack Bases, and Boarding Ships are all included in fleets with no problems. Attack Bases just need to have the minimum size changed, and boarding ships can just be set for weapons as primary and secondary weapons.

Defense ships will only be included in defense fleets.

Carriers and Troop Transports can be made as attack ships, but they AI will not include them in fleets until they are at least partially loaded with the appropriate cargo.

Kamakaze Ships will be included, but from the times I've seen it, it seems as if there are some odd requirements. Each time I've seen them included, the AI was in a defensive mode had recently lost a significant number of ships, once it was included in a fleet it seems to stay in though.

Sorry about the goof earlier.

edit:
After observing how the AI actually uses repair ships in fleets, I noticed that it dosn't make a difference anyway. When a fleet has taken damage in combat, it always moves all ships of the fleet back to the nearest resupply base at each ships best speed - thus breaking up the fleet before the repair ship has a change to make repairs.

[This message has been edited by Atraikius (edited 18 July 2001).]

[Atraikius]

On the bright side - at least we know there should be at least three attack ships to work with as (from what I understand) using boarding ships and Troop transports is exclusive as they both require the fleet strategy to be set appropriately, so by having AI build some cheep troops and ensuring that the troop ship has only one cargo, the troop ship can be used as a attack ship design.

Just a note on troops/planetary assaults - in my current game my Orks currently have SIX planets that they have captured and held long enough to build them up (there also in first place with 880K - captured planets making significant difference, with second place having 350K - I'm at a lowly 6th with 200K)

[Atraikius]

***bump***

Rollo and MB - heres the thread I was refering to.

[Rollo]

Thanks, Atraikius,
this is exactly what I had in mind .
Judging from the dates of the earlier Posts, this topic must have been just "before my time". Either that or I skipped it, because I was not interested in AI stuff a few weeks ago .
Rollo

[Sinapus]

Well, I've been modding the Terrans a bit and added a repair ship in the design file. From what I can tell, they will build one, but haven't seen one go off and repair a crippled ship.

I have the same design in some files I made for Neutrals. They tend to build at least two repair ships. Haven't seen them go after any cripples that sometimes result in battles.

I'm guessing I'm going to have to set the individual ship minister for my own race and see if it will send a ship over to repair another ship.

[Master Belisarius]

Thank you Atraikius!