Good question, sadly I don't know the answer but maybe a bump will get someones attention that does know.
tommyth3cat
Trade fleets are the best fleets cause they make the MONEY$!!!
[quote]I'm not an idiot and some people can be REALLY condescending and patronizing. I understand that in the occasion where I completely surrounded (read: COMPLETELY surrounded) my AI enemy into one planet, they might have ALREADY had had a big fleet, my question is how did they do it even though I was churning out units as fast as I could, and how on earth were they able to churn out TWO more capital ships? I know they didn't have any becuase I had already been to their home planet and was bom
perhaps these magically appearing fleets are ones that are sent out on attack runs on other comps and come to the rescue when you start demolishing their home turf. I've seen this kind of thing before. for example one of my AI allies kept losing capital ships from an enemy I kept pulling hit and runs on, who seemed to have no fleets at all but that was only because he was spending his time ripping my comp ally a new one. Just a thought though maybe you kept watch on his fleet