Jmondo

When your fleet arrives in an enemy gravity well, how does the AI decide who and what to target? DOes it target fleets first then structures? Does it send your different types of ships after their weakest opponent type? For example I notice that Captital ships and bombers go after the other captital ships which seems right, but in the heaps of other craft I find it hard to tell who is shooting who. I do notice that the AI seems to forget about what a ships appropriate target ty

Locking the teams does what? Does it make it so the AI players cannot come to a cease fire or peace agreement and therefore will not gang up on the human player exclusively? J

Question: Lately I have been considering using more flak frigates in my armada over LRMs and I was wondering why this isn't a more used strategy. The Flak frigate type vesselss have a higher damage and more armor/hull points for about the same cost. Their weapon effecting upgrades occur much lower in the tech tree as well. Sure the range is very short but since there is nothing to prevent you from closing the distance between fleets I don't see why that would really matter. An