AI war commands - future patch?

[Jerev]

In the stream yesterday @Wiz said that at war the AI would send their fleets to strengthen your efforts and I am glad that we have such a simple but good solution. Seeing how the two shipyards were destroyed I wanted to ask if there could be a patch that enables us we to give our AI partners a war goal or command?
That could be defend the borders or invade that system. Border defense in particular would let the weaker AI partners manage the micromanagement that only requires small fleets so that the strong members could focus on the actual combat.

 

[Kliwarrior]

At least would be nice to "suggest" to allied AI a strategic stance, like "offensive" or "stay & defend" or "join your forces with mine".

 

[Borgrabbit]

In EU4, There was such a option to choose Vassal forces stance. I really hope they add this feature in the future.

 

[Kliwarrior]

It was exactly was I thinking of (it went from AoW dlc if I remember correctly )

 

[doomdude1]

I hope they expand on the ally AI until release, since at the moment it's not independent at all.

 

[Jerev]

AI may not be independent but it is useful and I really like the attention the developers are giving their AI.
In many 4X or 4X-like games I played the AI was merely a buffer and trading partner but nearly useless in war.

 

[999realthings]

Maybe even the AI reinforcing or joining different fleets, so we can focus on multiple things as a quick and temporary solution but yes, I hope we can give commands/suggestions to allies on how to act during a war. Perhaps we can partner weaker AI together so they don't get overwhelmed.