Why does the AI build ships it builds?

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Ok, so i have noticed this a bunch..

 

Game is going along, most planets are colonized that can be with out terra-forming. Yet Civ's with no tech to colonize extreme planets, still build colony ships, and constructors to do nothing but sit in orbit.  I always wondered why it did not put more emphisis on small ships, that could attack/defend..

 

*edit..

After later going back to these same planets, they now have all been upgraded in to higher level ships.. most are these things called "spore" vesseles..

 

perhaps the AI uses the production to build ships to upgrade later on purpose?

 

Looks like my research has come in just in time.. My fleet of small vessles is just coming in..  (should have 12 for the invasion soon.. as i am going to take 3 resources and build a military starbase right near his home world..)    and they say the Korath are Evil...

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Are you sure they were upgraded?  Could they not have been decommissioned and new ones built of bought instead?

Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

ohh that i do not know...

all i know is when i checked the planets early, and was making a fleet, it had colony, and constructors..  By the time i got around to attacking, which i made take way way to long, they had spore ships, which i just assumed they upgraded.  Basically because i think they had about 5-6 of them, and that was about what they had for colony ships

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Do spore ships use the same hull size that the constructors and colony ships did?

(I have never built a spore ship, so I don't know.)

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting LTjim, reply 3
Do spore ships use the same hull size that the constructors and colony ships did?

Yes, they use Cargo Hulls.

Quoting LTjim, reply 3
(I have never built a spore ship, so I don't know.)

You're missing out. Spore ships are superior to troop transports in almost every way.

Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Probably true.  I just have never played the Korath or a custom race with that super-ability.  You're right, though, I probably should.

Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

If the AI abandons shipsd, it should decommision them, like players do.

Decommisioning gives money, players do this fer the BC they get out of it, so should the AI.

Having a ton of ships sitting somewhere seves no one.

Not the players, not the AI...

In some cases it's a SAI: Silly AI.   XD

Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I've seen the AI get rid of ships when it is in dire straits financially, like when it has been building ships during an economic boom and when that ends it suddenly hasn't got the money to support them.