Reverse Engineering by AI?

[gwillybj]

I have seen this.

I found myself in a Very Strange Situation a few games back:
I was pacted with Yang and Santiago - not a bad situation - except, they were in Vendetta! - and my territory was between them! Yang was ahead of me technologically and militarily and I was ahead of Santiago. Yang was not at all in a tech-sharing mood.
Here's the funny part:
Yang would transfer units to me at our border "for defense" - units with weapons for which Santiago did not have the tech. I had the border bases supporting only their garrison (two units, nothing else) so I could handle Yang's "gifts". I would march the gifted units all the way across my territory and transfer them to Santiago. She would then march them around my territory and use them to attack Yang.
But that was not all.
Yang was not building any offensive Speeders (he had speeder-based artillery, but he wasn't sharing those). Santiago was building offensive Speeders - with the weapons from the Infantry I gave her that I got from Yang!
What an immensely entertaining game that was!

[Chowlett]

One turn I'm cosying up to Deirdre, about to extract the secret of Centauri Meditation from her, and then Lal wanders in and, oh look, they're combining forces against me.

Is it just me, or can that have sooo much innuendo read into it?

[Straybow]

I think it was intended.

[Clear Skies]

Heh Glad someone noticed. I was beginning to think my corrupted mind was cleaning itself up...

Strangely, that happened on Thinker, whereas on Transcend I hardly ever seem to get combined against - most odd. You'd think it'd be more likely to happen at higher difficulty levels...

[Qwerty88]

Maybe AI doesn't reverse engineer between combat and non-combat, and in the case of non-combat not even between the different equipment.

[Commy]

Or maybe the AI is just retarded, and thinks that it can relocate a Planet Buster to another base by launching it...