useless combat AI

[Nova]

everytime i use the combat AI, because im more interested in the ship designing aspect, the i always lose because for some unknown reason my ships are so incompetent that they almost always end up doing circles and my carriers barely even seem to know they have aircraft, they never launch airstrikes, while my enemy seems to actually have some common sense, all in all its the worst AI i have ever seen

[bgp_spook]

Are you certain that your carriers have planes? Do your fleets have scout forces? Can you find the enemy before they are on top of you? Have you checked the post battle information to see if the ships are doing circles because their rudder is damaged?

The AI is not perfect, it does seem to be more passive at times than I would like, but it is very far from the worst I have seen.

[Nova]

Originally posted by bgp_spook:

Are you certain that your carriers have planes? Do your fleets have scout forces? Can you find the enemy before they are on top of you? Have you checked the post battle information to see if the ships are doing circles because their rudder is damaged?

The AI is not perfect, it does seem to be more passive at times than I would like, but it is very far from the worst I have seen.

Firstly I'm always stacking my carriers with planes, before I end my turn i get a notification that a carrier has no planes and then I just stack it, I've also had several instances when i manually called one or two carrier strikes than gave the AI full control and no more strikes
secondly i would expect the AI to use some kind of search pattern much rather than going in circles
thirdly, it actually depends on day or night but when i get radar they seem to struggle with recognizing a radar contact
fourthly, this behaviour frequently starts at the very beginning of a battle with no specific objective, so thats not even really a possibility

[Andrew Cree]

Unless I missed something in an update, I don't think the AI can organise air strikes for you.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Only AI can auto-airstrike. You have to manually launch them.

[ZE DUCK]

I have felt that the AI is pretty weird, i've seen enemies just loop around nonstop, and i havent even damaged them yet

[ZE DUCK]

I have also noticed very damaged ships being more aggressive than non damaged ones

2 of my old BBs which got heavily damaged are just homing into the enemy fleets aka practically suicide

[Fox23]

Can we get some AI rework? The combat AI if used in partial with only a few divisions or in total, our AI can't do basic things but the Enemy AI is somewhat competent. It would be nice to have the option if one could play out battles they don't want to micro manage.

[Primus Pilus]

Originally posted by Fox23:

Can we get some AI rework? The combat AI if used in partial with only a few divisions or in total, our AI can't do basic things but the Enemy AI is somewhat competent. It would be nice to have the option if one could play out battles they don't want to micro manage.

Are there any particular situations you've noticed where the AI performed poorly?

[Leisen]

Originally posted by Primus Pilus:

Originally posted by Fox23:

Can we get some AI rework? The combat AI if used in partial with only a few divisions or in total, our AI can't do basic things but the Enemy AI is somewhat competent. It would be nice to have the option if one could play out battles they don't want to micro manage.

Are there any particular situations you've noticed where the AI performed poorly?

Generally there is nothing we really can tell AI formation to do. Most roles are just "stay near the flagship" in different fasion. I really wish we could ask our formation to pursue a specific enemy formation or any command we can tell our formation to do in relative to enemy fleets' position.

[ThatZenoGuy]

Originally posted by Leisen:

Originally posted by Primus Pilus:

Are there any particular situations you've noticed where the AI performed poorly?

Generally there is nothing we really can tell AI formation to do. Most roles are just "stay near the flagship" in different fasion. I really wish we could ask our formation to pursue a specific enemy formation or any command we can tell our formation to do in relative to enemy fleets' position.

That's one thing which bothers me. Enemy AI can operate every single squadrun 'on the fly', utter micromanagement every single tick as needed.

Player? Unless you intend on micromanaging a battle so much that it takes IRL HOURS, you're inherently at a disadvantage.

There really should be a setting that, if turned on, causes all non-selected squadrons to go to player-faction AI.