AI Wont Build Enemy Fleets?

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    Well I hope I get this post part right as the last time I tried to post, I couldnt find the post afterwards!

Anyway, as the title says, the AI in singleplayer refuses to come attack me with anything sizeable... heck, I hardly see them conquering anything, infact, I see them doing nothing except building resources!

I switched them over to be highly aggressive and such and still no change.  On occassion they'll build a dozen frigates or so but how can it match up against my massive fleet?  I built the fleet in hopes of taking on massive fleets as well but all I get is a half dozen frigates that run away everytime I come in...  What am I missing?

Also a small side quesiton, how do you get to the other solar systems you see on the map?  I've tried entering wormholes but it just transports my ship into another wormhole in the same system that I'm already in.

Thanks in advance. 
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Ai spends too much time building capships and siege frigates which never gets used because you're too well defended.

The third Civilian Tech Long Jump allows you to jump between stars.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
You might have the AI on easy mode maybe? Not sure

Anyways, to get to the other solar systems, you need to research long-range jumps(or whatever race your playing's), then you take a ship to your system's star,and then right click on the star(or planet) at the other system.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Where can I find this civilian tech long-jump? (switching in and out from game and here).

*EDIT*

Okay going to try to do the star thing then, since I've nearly maxed my research out (been sitting here pooling resources waiting for enemies to build up something worth killing).

As well, how then can I ever get a true BATTLE, or am I always going to be the big bully on the street with the little kids running away without a fight?
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
If you're vasari, get some subverters with distortion fields in there; that'll disable all frigate/cruiser jump drives. Otherwise, use a lesser force or corner them in a single system (by which I mean place them in a system without any adjacent systems belonging to them).
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
No,you'll get some massive fights, i'm playing a 1 vs 9 with 9 hard AI's and me being vasari, and right now i have 4 attacks of varying sizes at 4 key locations, fat least each fleet has 100 to 150 ships,some including up to 8 capitals, and i'm running around trying to counter them all,and still put up an offensive.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
I'm advent and loving it. Though I finally found a worthy target, a pirate world with 60+ enemies, and a couple dozen sentry weapons. So I come in with my combined 1st and 2nd fleet, and guess what, my ships dont move! Their just sitting there, not moving, not shooting. Neither are the enemy ships....

However the enemy defense turrets are firing away at my fleet slowly killing it as their not firing back with their extremely researched weapons, and my high tech shields can only last so long under that kind of bombardment... three capitals down, another going, and half my smaller vessels are gone.

My fighters and bombers work so I've taken command of them and their slowly taking out the turrets, but what is wrong here, I cant even move to escape nor fire back?!
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
are you playing VS the AI on hard ? cause i have never experienced what you're talking about. if you want a challenge put the teams on unlocked and go vs. two hard AI's each on seperate teams... so 3 players 3 teams ...

due to the teams being unlocked the AI's will likely join together and attack you in force... unless you are quite good and can split their force and destroy one then the other.

another fun game i had recently is the map gateway 3v3 all hard ai's.... locked teams though..
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
Yea, all of the aggresseors I set are set to "hard" and their doing nothing. And my fleets still stuck, all but shattered because they couldnt fire back this entire time, nor move, and still cant.
Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
I just exited after a save to see what was up, and I checked the stats of all the races... I'm the only one whose built or done anything! They havent conquered, made ships, etc.... is my game broken? :( I just spent 4 hours researching and building to the max and there's no enemies to speak of. X-(