I've been running observer games (all AI, fastest speed) over the last couple of hours and over several sessions of various length (longest running being slightly over 100 years) I've noticed one common pattern: Machine Empires, regardless of their type or personality, never build any armies. No defensive armies, no assault armies, not even after researching more advanced tiers.
In fact, they don't produce armies even during war. Unable to occupy planets, they just bombard them forever, chase after enemy fleets or (in case of one Determined Exterminator I was watching) sit in spacedock twiddling their servos.
DLC: All of them.
Mods: Only cosmetic ones like Beautiful Universe, Reduced Aura Graphics and Clean Space. I did have some of my mods active in the first few games but I disabled them in later tests to ensure no interference. The results did not change.
Reproduction Steps:
1. Start the game as any empire (I used Earth Custodianship and X-something-Eliminators in most of the games, just to make sure there was at least one machine empire on the map)
2. Use the "observe" command to enter the observer mode and check Contacts to make sure there's a couple of Machine Empires to observe
3. Set the speed to fastest and periodically (I did it every 10-15 years) possess various machine empires to see if they have built any armies
4: Attaching 3 saves from my latest test (2200, 2217 and 2230).
By 2230 you can see that most organic empires have armies but none of the 3 machines (not counting the Fallen Custodians) have produced any armies at all beyond the homeworld garrison they spawned with (2200.01.01 save is included if you need to verify the initial conditions)
In fact, they don't produce armies even during war. Unable to occupy planets, they just bombard them forever, chase after enemy fleets or (in case of one Determined Exterminator I was watching) sit in spacedock twiddling their servos.
DLC: All of them.
Mods: Only cosmetic ones like Beautiful Universe, Reduced Aura Graphics and Clean Space. I did have some of my mods active in the first few games but I disabled them in later tests to ensure no interference. The results did not change.
Reproduction Steps:
1. Start the game as any empire (I used Earth Custodianship and X-something-Eliminators in most of the games, just to make sure there was at least one machine empire on the map)
2. Use the "observe" command to enter the observer mode and check Contacts to make sure there's a couple of Machine Empires to observe
3. Set the speed to fastest and periodically (I did it every 10-15 years) possess various machine empires to see if they have built any armies
4: Attaching 3 saves from my latest test (2200, 2217 and 2230).
By 2230 you can see that most organic empires have armies but none of the 3 machines (not counting the Fallen Custodians) have produced any armies at all beyond the homeworld garrison they spawned with (2200.01.01 save is included if you need to verify the initial conditions)
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