I'm under the impression that the AI does not have access to the events system. I don't believe they trigger events, research anomalies, or get any of the benefits that the player gets from doing these things. Can anyone confirm this or show evidence that they do?
Does the AI get events?
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Yes.
AI's can unlock Colossi, which require you to pick a weapon type via event. Furthermore, the Ascension Path's (at least Synth and Psionic) are event based, and AI can complete either. As well, Glavius' AI mod mostly uses AI-only events to fix AI missbehavior.
However, it's fair to reason that there are a lot player-only events. The most obvious one (prior to 2.2) was the Piracy Spawning event.
So chances are the AI's can not gain the same amount of events as players can (and given the intent of the game to entertain players, that's reasonable to save on performance). But, strictly answering the original question, yes, AI empires can trigger events.
AI's can unlock Colossi, which require you to pick a weapon type via event. Furthermore, the Ascension Path's (at least Synth and Psionic) are event based, and AI can complete either. As well, Glavius' AI mod mostly uses AI-only events to fix AI missbehavior.
However, it's fair to reason that there are a lot player-only events. The most obvious one (prior to 2.2) was the Piracy Spawning event.
So chances are the AI's can not gain the same amount of events as players can (and given the intent of the game to entertain players, that's reasonable to save on performance). But, strictly answering the original question, yes, AI empires can trigger events.
If I remember right, there is also a set of AI only events that are not available for the players.