2.2: AI not moving fleets at all?

[Xrybnix]

Hi guys,

so I haven't played in a while, got the Megacorp expansion for christmas and decided to give it a go.
I liked the new economy system. But when I attacked my neighboring rival wih "superior" fleet power, it was rather underwhelming. Their fleets were sitting around in spaceport not moving at all.

So I destroyed the small one, ignored the large one, captured my claimed planet and "won" the war with no effort at all. Is this normal in 2.2? Seems almost unplayable to be honest.

P.S.: 2.2 vanilla, no mods, no beta patch (I skipped it since the patch notes don't say anything about AI), grand admiral difficulty

 

[Dalwin]

I can tell you that in 2.2.3 the AI seems much more active with its fleets. It will actually attack with them after declaring war. It is also better about expanding it's borders in that version, though it is probably not any better about running its economy past the earliest stages of the game.​