Anti AI tactic that feel like cheating |
Esp. in BM (where ship capture comes earlier and AI is more active)
Early game, research ship capture technology and put "theif" class frigate on warppoints to your systems (+ some defense). Later add something to down shields/slow down target ship.
If there are planets colonizable by AI, they will eventualy send colonizers. So you can gain different breathers/colony techs. One colony tech pays research into ship capture.
If there are asteroids, AI will send remote miners.
(+ you will probubly capture frigates and freighters too, so you will get other techs too).
Only way i managed to stop AI from suiciding civilian ships was to colonize all planets + convert&colonize asteroids.

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Imo they should not ram planets. Its bit futile.
No, just dedication to completing there task 
Was that in the same turn or on a subsequent turn that the colonizer rammed the planet?

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I lost a new colony when an AI colony ship rammed the planet.

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There's no way to differentiate ramming ships from another vehicle type...
With the switch to smaller CQ/LS, inner slots on some ship sets are too few in number, so I had to randomize their placement between inner and outer slots. Since CQ/LS are added prior to most other components, there's not really any way to know if their will be inner slots available after some of the specialty components are added. However, I do have some revisions planned to make sure small ships always have at least one of each placed on inner slots.
There's been a couple recent bugs with emissive armor stacking when it shouldn't, but a 50-50 mix is usually sufficient. I'm currently make a few revisions to how armor is added, so you'll see a bit more of the emissive armor in future versions.




). TC were reunited with UEE and first scout ships were sent to peacefully exploit (eh. explore) universe. But they met Enemy Life Forms (Elf
Re: Anti AI tactic that feel like cheating
Are you noticing if the AI Colony or Resource ships are trying to ram your ships?
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