The AI managed to surprise me

[Shark7]

I bet you are wondering how. [;)]

I design 3 types of resort bases. 1 plain resort base, 1 with a mining engine, and 1 with a gas mining engine. This is so I can take full advantage of those scenery places that also have resources.

Imagine my pleasant surprise when the AI was able to choose the right type of resort base to build at a gas Giant. Yep, it built a resort base with a gas mining engine on it, without any input from me. The AI is good enough to pick a base that takes full advantage of the resources and scenery, so long as you provide the designs to do so.

I never expected it to be that in depth. [:)]

[Igard]

I'm amazed about that. However forgive me for being slightly sceptical, but are you sure it builds the correct type of base all the time and it wasn't just random luck that the AI chose the correct one?

In any case, I'll need to start redesigning my resort bases now. They're one of the few bases I usually leave to the AI to design.

[Shark7]

Well, I know I didn't build it. The reason I found it was that I was going to handle it manually.

Did it just choose it because it was the newest design? If that were the case it would have built a regular mining resort base, not a gas miner, because the gas miner was designed before the standard miner.

I'll just keep an eye out and see what happens in the future.

[Igard]

Interesting, I'll certainly adopt this and see how it goes.

Quite astonishing really. Here we are awaiting an expansion with a whole bunch of new features and we're still finding out things about this game.

[The_Great_Mustachio]

Are you sure it's not just trying to "mine" the gas giant?

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: The_Great_Mustachio

Are you sure it's not just trying to "mine" the gas giant?

It could have just built a regular gas mining station then, since those are readily available. The resort base with the gas miner is still ID'ed to the AI as a resort base, that is how I designed it. Is it possible the AI is set to look for a station that has as many of the components it needs and chooses the best match? Very possible...only Erik or Elliot can tell us for sure...maybe they will.

I have the following station types:

Mining Station
Gas Mining Station
Resort Base
Gas Mining Resort Base
Mining Resort Base
Fleet Depot (big refueling station with a gas miner, lots of storage and 8 docking bays)
Monitoring station (small station with a Long range sensor)
4 Research Bases (4 of each type of lab on each...each set as one of the 4 types and labaed E, W, H, I)
Star Ports of all 3 sizes

The AI has no trouble building any of them, I was just surprised that it could pick the gas mining resort base out of the list for the appropriate planet...Gas Giant with 3 gas types and a 39% scenery from its rings. If it was just picking a gas miner, it would have picked my Gas Mining Station.