0009102: AI Neinzul regen chamber causes really stupid behavior - DEV Arcen

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0009102	AI War 1 / Classic	Suggestion - AI Behavior And Tactics		Aug 2, 2012 1:45 pm	May 10, 2013 11:50 am

Reporter	martyn_van_buren	Assigned To
Status	considering	Resolution	open
Product Version	5.051

Summary	0009102: AI Neinzul regen chamber causes really stupid behavior
Description	So I just faced an early wave of about 700 Neinzul youngster ships, and I was dismayed that almost 200 got away to become threat. But then, a minute later, they started trickling back into my system four or five ships at a time, letting me pick them off easily --- which seemed like a seriously stupid use of threat ships until I realized that they were trying to get to a regen chamber on another AI world. Looking at the map, they could have got to the same place without passing through my space with three jumps, but they're evidently choosing to go through my space because it's only two. I think this pathfinding should be improved a little --- at least enough to let them attempt to convoy through my space, but ideally to go around it; if they're heading for a regen chamber they're definitely damaged enough not to be much of a threat to me. Surely, also, the AI could be a bit more clever about powering down its Neinzul ships. Anyway I think this could be exploited to remove a huge part of the threat from Neinzul ships; ideally now I want to keep a regen chamber on a captive neutered world and snipe any others I see near my territory, right? EDIT: I'm not sure if I made this clear, but I think the biggest problem is that fleeing ships have pretty much normally distributed amounts of health, so they attrition down to the regen-chamber point over a long time and they wind up coming into my system in a very spread-out, unthreatening way. Also, forgot to attach a save I made for illustration -- this is after about half of the threat has already been dissipated, but they're still trickling in.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Aug 2, 2012 1:45 pm	martyn_van_buren	New Issue
Aug 2, 2012 2:06 pm	martyn_van_buren	Description Updated
Aug 2, 2012 2:07 pm	martyn_van_buren	File Added: Golemite -- 5 -- Threat trickle.sav
Aug 2, 2012 2:12 pm	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0006527
Aug 2, 2012 2:13 pm	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0006529
Aug 2, 2012 4:58 pm	tigersfan	Internal Weight	=> Feature Suggestion
Aug 2, 2012 4:58 pm	tigersfan	Status	new => considering
May 10, 2013 11:50 am	TechSY730	Relationship added	related to 0011437