AI fleets will try to destroy drones endlessly ignoring other nearby targets

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I have noticed in a few games since 3.5 that the AI fleets will nearly always focus on destroying drones surrounding a planet, ignoring other nearby targets of interests (fleets it can defeat easily, shipyard, etc).  The AI fleet always try to destroy drones, it will wait there forever until it is destroyed.  It is the same strategy the AI uses to invade a planet, send a fleet, destroy ships&drones, invade the planet with a transport fleet.  Except in this case, there is never any transport coming.

Has anyone else ever noticed that too?

I have created a ticket #AJZ-662-10426 for this behavior with a save game.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Yes, as soon as you research the tech to put drones automatically in your planets' orbit and you are at war enemy fleets show up to besiege those planets and do nothing else but shooting down those drones when they respawn. Sometimes the AI follows up with an invasion fleet, but most of the time not.

The AI ignores shipyards and starbases nearly entirely, at very rare occasions they shot down one of those, although shooting down undefended shipyards is quite easy (apart from the start of the game).

Reply #2 from Stardock.net Forums Top

Sounds like the priority is skewed. I'll make a note of this.

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