Trading Ships to Minor Races

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I felt badly for not going to war to help the minor races. So, when they came to me for help, I gave them each one of my latest and greatest Archer model capital ships. Medium hull, four beam attack, one armor defense, comprable speed. Their enemies were still using ships with one missile and one mass driver attack, no armor, and about 2 speed. The Archer Class was just what the minor races needed. I handed over one ship a piece to two minor races and after a few turns I've noticed that these ships have changed color to the appropriate minor races, are sitting beside the planets they were orbiting when I traded them away, and haven't moved.

Questions - Can the minor races not move these ships because they can't use my uber technology?
Is it a bug?
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmmm, another question on this in 10 mins. Anyway Im guessing but I think because Minor races only have 1 planet and they are usually full of there own ships, the AI has knowhere to put them. They also might not have the range to get the ships to them. (Im guessing it is the first one though)

The minor races won't try to attack another colony, they will send out a few ships to attack shipping though.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
What intelligence level is the AI set to? At dumber levels the AI is much less reactive (it only has chances of noticing things).

I sell ships to the minor races all the time ... I think I am at Sub-Normal. Sometimes the ships just sit there, othertimes they go on a rampage with them.

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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I think the problem might be range -- I noticed something similar, then plopped a starbase down to give increased range, and the ships took off like a rocket after I gave that starbase off.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
In my current game, the Dark Yor actually have 2 planets. Did they actually take one over (I found them after the event occurred)? Has anyone else seen this?
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
(reposted from my response in another thread on races not making use of ships given to them)

I too have had ships in and out of range of the receiving civilization not utilize ships I gave them. I've given to major, and minor civs, and play with the AI on normal, and the ships just sit there half the time.


I don't know if it's a bug in the AI, but I had a minor race, that wasn't even under attack from a major power, (but might have been at war.. I destroyed the attacking fleet since the minor race was right next to one of my planets), About every 10 or so turns, the damn squirrel would come back begging for more tech and ships, claiming they were on the verge of elimination, with nary an enemy ship in sight. I got annoyed, and took them down myself. Hey, a class 15 planet is a class 15 planet. (Besides, I didn't want the attacking civ to capture any of the techs I gave to the squirrels when they finally went under.)

*note* it's single planet stardock was indeed full. It was using *some* of the ships I gave them, but not all.. only about half.