Does AI share core planet limit and sectors

[Agamemnic]

i.e. Does the AI hive off excess planets to its own sector(s)?

And if so, is the AI also observing a 25% tax (minimum) from sector contribution?

 

[The Founder]

The reports on this are conflicting.

Some AI planets do carry the "Managed by Sector" Divergence penalty in tooltips for pops. Wich implies they do.

Last time I took over a AI in a MP game, it did not have any preset Sectors. But that might be a "taking over" action.


However, it would make little sense for me to enforce sectors onto them:
The AI is already as dumb as the Sector AI on a Empire Level. And everything about Sectors is about helping the player/playflow with large Empires.

 

[Agamemnic]

The reports on this are conflicting.

Some AI planets do carry the "Managed by Sector" Divergence penalty in tooltips for pops. Wich implies they do.

Last time I took over a AI in a MP game, it did not have any preset Sectors. But that might be a "taking over" action.


However, it would make little sense for me to enforce sectors onto them:
The AI is already as dumb as the Sector AI on a Empire Level. And everything about Sectors is about helping the player/playflow with large Empires.

Confirmed. The AI is using sectors. Just scanned its planets and got a good number of "managed by sector" penalties. Good stuff. Dunno about the sector contribution tax though.

 

[Endless Rain]

Fallen Empires and Awakened Empires don't use sectors, but normal empires do use sectors once they get big enough to need them.

 

[Elothan]

Fallen Empires and Awakened Empires don't use sectors, but normal empires do use sectors once they get big enough to need them.

I suddently understood why the FEs fell in the first place
The seceords made them withdraw into a managable small system

 

[The Founder]

Fallen Empires and Awakened Empires don't use sectors, but normal empires do use sectors once they get big enough to need them.

They do have 5 of every repeatable technology. Wich propably includes the increased Core World count.
And they only start with 5 Systems (2 for Materialist). Wich means they can conquer 5 Systems (8 for Materialist) before they need to consider sectors.

 

[Endless Rain]

They do have 5 of every repeatable technology. Wich propably includes the increased Core World count.
And they only start with 5 Systems (2 for Materialist). Wich means they can conquer 5 Systems (8 for Materialist) before they need to consider sectors.

They do not use sectors even when they go over the Max Core Systems limit. I once used the console to switch to a Materialist AE that had conquered around 30 systems. It had no sectors, despite being at double their Max Core Systems.

 

[The Founder]

They do not use sectors even when they go over the Max Core Systems limit. I once used the console to switch to a Materialist AE that had conquered around 30 systems. It had no sectors, despite being at double their Max Core Systems.

I have to again point out that I did not see any sectors when taking over an AI in a MP game either. It could just be that the sectors are cleared when ownership of hte Empire switches.

If that holds true for AE: Very interesting.
I am not sure wheter that is a oversight (awakened and fallen empires are not of the type default empire, so they might have the sector code bug out).
Or intentionally - so they actually get slower at snowballing the bigger they get.

 

[MechaThumper]

I have to again point out that I did not see any sectors when taking over an AI in a MP game either. It could just be that the sectors are cleared when ownership of hte Empire switches.

If that holds true for AE: Very interesting.
I am not sure wheter that is a oversight (awakened and fallen empires are not of the type default empire, so they might have the sector code bug out).
Or intentionally - so they actually get slower at snowballing the bigger they get.

The sectors are not cleared. Not sure about how AI do sector management but switching to what was a player empire still had sectors showing.

 

[Agamemnic]

Or intentionally - so they actually get slower at snowballing the bigger they get.

AE snowballs like mad. Played on a huge map where FE awakened with no challenger. Took about a 3rd of the galaxy with just a few wars. +700k fleet vs the unbidden max 200k. Utterly rediculous.