This issuedoesn't really havan anythindo with with skill,by here is some sort of flaw in the AI that for whatever reason makes the AI want to send fleets to an unimportant planet and then ignore anything and everything else.
DarkHail
I am sure there are tons of threads about the AI behavior and I tried to see if there was one similar to my experience but there are simply too many threads to wade through. In what is now a 1v1 in a large multisystem game the AI are sending wave after wave of fleets from their home system to my system only to park the fleet at a gas giant a few jumps from the sun where I have a starbase. They then park themselves opposite the starbase and do not attack it. They simply allow the starb