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This may be different on higher levels, but so far it's proven true on "Normal."
When the AI is beating on a starbase that it expects to destroy (I'm not talking about hitting a starbase with 80 HP left with a battlecruiser), it should bring a constructor along, or have one not too far off.
One reason I'm doing well in my current game is because the Drengin and the Torians are in a war, and they're both my neighbors. I'm playing ethical ferengi, staying out of the wars as best possible, but if a starbase gets weakened, I'll get several constructors in the area so that when it goes boom, I can get a starbase with fully upgraded defenses on the resource within a turn or two. It works because the AI never brings constructors along in the assault force.
In the current game, this saved my but because I snagged two econ resources and upgraded the mining on them just before a chain reaction war caused most of my trade routes to shut down.
Funny, a good person suddenly being at war with the other good and neutral AIs and his only trade partner being the Drengin
When the AI is beating on a starbase that it expects to destroy (I'm not talking about hitting a starbase with 80 HP left with a battlecruiser), it should bring a constructor along, or have one not too far off.
One reason I'm doing well in my current game is because the Drengin and the Torians are in a war, and they're both my neighbors. I'm playing ethical ferengi, staying out of the wars as best possible, but if a starbase gets weakened, I'll get several constructors in the area so that when it goes boom, I can get a starbase with fully upgraded defenses on the resource within a turn or two. It works because the AI never brings constructors along in the assault force.
In the current game, this saved my but because I snagged two econ resources and upgraded the mining on them just before a chain reaction war caused most of my trade routes to shut down.
Funny, a good person suddenly being at war with the other good and neutral AIs and his only trade partner being the Drengin
