A.I is pirate retarded he places bounty on teamates

why anyone fears pirates in a.i matches is beyond me

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Ok this really makes pirates usefull only to the player .When playing against the computer. it will never put bounty on someone with 0 bounty if there are other choices.
seems logical at first.I tried this with teams locked and unlocked. works both ways .
I just played A medium map with 3 opponents and only once when i went afk for a sec did i have bounty on my head ,simply by keeping at least 2 peoples bounty positive besides me. i never get targeted.

I took A screenshot of the timeline to show you ,although the bar is rising .the bounty is actually zero for me all the time except one in the middle of the timeline it went to 500.(I had to drop the kids at the pool)I went afk for 5 mins .
either way this current situation basically makes it so I and I alone have control of where the pirates go in single player matches
which is kinda cheesy.

The A.I should somehow notice this tactic .or the A.I should pay bounty more often ,rather than wait till a raid is immenent
it just detracts from the intended purpose of the pirates in my opinion
i mean most of the time all I see of pirates is when they cross my planet to phase into their true target
of course this would never happen when playing with humans

please note this is almost 5 hours of play.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
lol i didn't believe you at first but i just had a game and this situation came up.. was a 2v2 me and 1 hard ai vs 2 hard ai ... i tried your "trick" and it seems you are correct. keeping bounty's on the two enemy ai's me and my partner ai never got a bounty.

i think the other team was actually placing bounty's on eachother too cause the numbers got quite high. this is definitely an oversight cause the AI should never bounty a teammate...
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
yes you are right . the A.I actually was bidding on his teamates bounty in my game as well. this is deffinatley not intended
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Were you playing as advent, and did you have the auto-bounty for people killing your trade ships researched? Ive seen some obscenely high bounties created on enemy factions because of this.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
were teams locked? if not that means there alliance can degrade over time and allow you them to put bounty on each other
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I can see this happening in unlocked game, AI does weird things when teams are unlocked :)
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
Bump ........ this needs to be adressed by stardock or one of the fraser bro's before i let this thread die
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
When teams are not locked it is perfectly reasonable for AI players (or humans!) to place bounties on their teammates. That is the only way a player can damage their teammate during the alliances.

However, if locked-team AIs place bounty on their teammates then that should be changed.