Hello im asking here since i dont know if this is a bug, im playing a game as the vodyani in very hard, i have sent 3 fleets of leecher ships to the united empire systems im making over 1500 escence per turn, i even raided and killed the inhabitants of two systems and the only thing the empire is doing is asking me politely to not eat their people, no war declaration, no attacks, nothing. I decided to declare war on them to have some action and they...didint do anything, its turn 112 and i sent one of my fleets 10k weapon strenght like 98k HP using full T2 laser weapons and i found that the empire that is larger than my tiny vodyani empire , and its supposed to be the industrial faction, only has a pity fleet of 5k and thats it and they didint even bother to sent their crappy fleet to attack the systems that were being devoured, its that okay ? it is a bug does anyone has the same issue ? i feel that my game is pretty messy honestly im playing in very hard im not a really good 4X player and i remember that before teh AI would build fleets of considerable power and i felt the challenge but now in every game even in very hard they just build T1 shit fleets that they dont use at all and its killing the fun out of my games. 

Yeah, the AI isn't very good.

Dragar wrote:

Yeah, the AI isn't very good.

Yes but i remember back in june that the AI would fight back i remember winning and struggling a bit in hard difficulty and the AI building fleets to counter my own which was fun because i had to adapt , demand techs from empires with low pressure, focus in military , but now the AI doesnt fight back, it sits with its crappy T1 fleets on their home system while i kill them and its really really reallyy boring that way. 

Maybe it was broken in one of the patches?

Perhaps the AI hasn't changed and you've simply improved to the point where it's not keeping up anymore.  It's a pretty natural phenomenon that comes with practice and study...

Daynen wrote:

Perhaps the AI hasn't changed and you've simply improved to the point where it's not keeping up anymore.  It's a pretty natural phenomenon that comes with practice and study...

 maybe but im not that good honestly and its weird that  the AI only has one fleet sitting on their capital world that they doesnt use my improvement has nothing to do with that :S 

There's also the possibility that the AI was fighting someone else and the bulk of their fleet was elsewhere. Odds of that though are unlikely based on what has been said. What I have found though is that the AI rarely upgrades their ships to something that would give Tier 3(Titanium/Hyperium) equipped ships issues. Meaning once you unlock and fully equip your fleets, much less get to Tier 4(Adamantium/Antimatter), you're all but assured to sweep their ships aside. That's where they need to work on with respect to the AI is to give their ships the best outfits possible rather than going with cheaper(and weaker) alternatives. The AI loves to equip their Coordinators and Dreadnoughts with aircraft and I've found aircraft to be not worth the investment(hence another area of focus with regards to balance/polish).

Barf wrote:

There's also the possibility that the AI was fighting someone else and the bulk of their fleet was elsewhere. Odds of that though are unlikely based on what has been said. What I have found though is that the AI rarely upgrades their ships to something that would give Tier 3(Titanium/Hyperium) equipped ships issues. Meaning once you unlock and fully equip your fleets, much less get to Tier 4(Adamantium/Antimatter), you're all but assured to sweep their ships aside. That's where they need to work on with respect to the AI is to give their ships the best outfits possible rather than going with cheaper(and weaker) alternatives. The AI loves to equip their Coordinators and Dreadnoughts with aircraft and I've found aircraft to be not worth the investment(hence another area of focus with regards to balance/polish).

I think is that, because every time i get to the lategame im the only one using antimatter weaponry, some times the AI will use hyperium but thats about it and they seem to spam fighters alot wich are meh in my opinion, do you know of any mod that improves the AI?