using AI against the enemy

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i just finished a very fun FFA game, was 6 people, 2 left soon after the game started so we had 2 ai floating around.  about midway through the game i noticed both ai were focused solely on me, ignoring each other and everything else, it wasnt too big a deal, i lost a couple outlying asteroids but nothing serious, and my cap ships were getting good xp, however, while i was defending my edges against one particularly large attack i suddenly get a huge fleet from one of the players flying in from the other side and he takes out 3 planets before i can get my first response to him.  he later told me he had allied with both ai's and had ordered them to attack me and he timed and planned his attack to coincide with theirs.

now that sounded pretty cool, i know that AI in multiplayer do offer you missions to do to get rep with them, but how do you order them to attack someone, i havnt seen that anywhere in the diplomacy screen, either way it was a pretty nice tactic, i just figured both ai's didnt like me for some reason, i didnt think they had someone manipulating them.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Select an AI unit and where the abilities normally appear for your ships, a few options will appear. A couple of those are to set targets for the AI.

Note that the AI will decide whether or not to send stuff mostly based on how much it likes you and who you are telling it to attack.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
well, it seems a pretty inexpensive way to keep a player busy, the AI i was fighting against was throwing tons of units at me, mostly assault frigs and carriers so it wasnt too bad but there were a helluva lot of em, guess paying a bit of crystal and such to get good relations is pretty inexpensive if you can get a whole other navy to fight for you, i gotta try that in my next game
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
right the best way to talk to the ai is to select a planet of theres you can do this zoomed out you can ask it to attack and defend but the if the ai fleet meets a fleet thats hostile it will not move from there while fighter bar the siege frights which will head for the planet. the ai wastes resources on cap and very little research so don't expect too much from them.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Interesting. . .

I once was playing and the AI kept sending a crapload of Cruisers at me. I was distracted and my friend came from behind and wiped me out.