Fortifier AI is broken

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I've had this problem for a while but since i normally play with random enemies, I wasn't sure which kind of AI was the problem. After some testing ive figured out that it is the fortifier AI. at least on hard difficulty, it seems to never want to leave its home planet ever. It builds several colony frigs but never sends them anywhere. As an ally i told them to go attack a militia own planet one jump from their home, and while they sent combat ships to wipe out the locals they then left without colonizing it. Is this a known issue?

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Strange, really strange.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The fortifiers I've played (specifically set to) have ranged from superweapon turtles as intended to indecisive "almost" attackers. Generally it's the latter of the two and they'll mass a medium-ish fleet with a titan then just hop between gravity wells and maybe attack if I'm already steam rolling someone.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Scudhawk, reply 2
The fortifiers I've played (specifically set to) have ranged from superweapon turtles as intended to indecisive "almost" attackers. Generally it's the latter of the two and they'll mass a medium-ish fleet with a titan then just hop between gravity wells and maybe attack if I'm already steam rolling someone.
End of Scudhawk's quote

What difficulty lvl? Im playing against hard AI, so I would be curious if its contained to only Hard fortifiers.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

90% of the time it's unfair, 10% hard. Depends on the map, this activity is normally observed on unfair though.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Fortifier AIs will tend to turtle but this sounds pretty strange.  If you have any save games that repro this behavior, can you send them to rebellionbeta@stardock.com? 

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

OT. But why would yow want to no which ai your playing?

I always set to random.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting wbino, reply 6
But why would yow want to no which ai your playing?
End of wbino's quote
Well it is helpful for reporting AI issues (knowing whoich AI types cause which strange behavior is going to help the dev's a lot more than encountering weird behavior on random AI's and not being able to tell the dev's what sort of AI you were playing with).

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting wbino, reply 6
OT. But why would yow want to no which ai your playing?

I always set to random.
End of wbino's quote

 

I normally play with randoms as well, but for purposes of finding this bug, i tested all the AIs by choice