Maybe the AI is smart enough to know that it's not smart enough, and just runs if the numbers aren't highly in its favor. That's the developers being smart!
jreichman1
small typo to fix: cruisers sheet, support, vasari overseer, abilities: "b7" -> "by" Your charts are superior by far to Kruelgor's. He's effing retarded. Keep up the good work!
"spamming" means focus and build as many of one thing as possible. With TEC, building a lot of Javelis LRMs (only tech level 2 = 2 mil labs) is an easy strategy to start learning how to play the game against the AI. Research those first; don't waste time immediately at the beginning with the hull upgrades. You're only going to have a handful of ships. There are LOTS of threads in this forum with procedures on what to build at the beginning. Figure a few of those out and it'll
Boy, are you going to smack your forehead hard. Third research tab, left hand side of the research screen. Fleet logistics (or something like that...)