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...y for its limitation. This should make it a valuable asset worth paying 40 AIP for. ...g for free" objectives no longer appear if capturing the planet would cost AIP.

...it seemed like even dislodging a non-respawning population (after raising AIP a bit) would be inappropriately difficult. ...auto-target stuff that should not be auto-targeted (wormhole guard posts, AIP-on-death structures, etc) if the unit in question shot them first.

...plays that it adds the functions to adjust starting and incremental AIP or AIP reduction, as well as having the Auto-Juggle energy setting in the first pl === AI Income Balance By Difficulty And AIP ===

* New extended setting which makes sabotage hacks still charge you the aip death-price. ...urn it on in your galaxy settings <i>Extended > AIP > Sabotage hacks cause AIP</i>.

** Ha! Clients were able to take planets without incurring AIP for their planets, at least in the last month or so. The beta may not have *** Too Much AIP

...tion of the resource bar now also shows the current AI mark level, and the AIP for raising the AI mark level. * Continued incremental improvements to improving the colouring of the AIP history to reflect which factions did what

...question (each AI has its own reserve) and AIP. On Diff 7 with non-insane AIP it's pretty tame. Higher up, it gets more intense. ...ents) if under a "special forces population cap" determined by difficulty, AIP, etc.

...st (and thus are fully functional in Expert+ anyways) but cost between 2-4 AIP to acquire and mark up with Expatriate Tech. Most of them are based on vers ...the board to make them tougher than guardians. Increased the cost for the AIP to purchase accordingly

** Due to its existing AIP cost, this should be fine? Moderate payment and large military investment s ...s change made it pretty simple on 5, somewhat difficult on 7 (50, 110, 360 AIP tested), and juuuust possible on Democracy's save of 500aip, difficulty 9.

...e top of the UI, you'll see a big red number with the accompanying letters AIP. This is AI Progress, AKA how pissed off the AI is against you. The higher ...awn close to your homeworld and on low level planets initially, but as the AIP becomes higher, they will spawn farther away and on higher mark planets. In

* A Mime throwing back EMP warheads will now use the no-AIP ones. * Data Centers and Coprocessors now tell you how much the AIP reduction is on higher difficulties.

...tion after a minor faction killed the original (so the player is incurring AIP by killing the reconquest AI command station) then allow scouting. ...ence extraction hacking now correctly costs AIP if the player would accrue AIP from capturing the planet (ie if a minor faction took out the AI command st

** AIP on death from 5 => 15. * The Shark plot has been split into Shark-A (only increases AIP on command station death) and Shark-B (only does the non-permanent AI bonus

* Add Distribution Nodes; these give a burst of metal in exchange for some AIP. Reuses an existing icon. ...(ie the archive is destroyed or your hacker is destroyed) then you get 80 AIP.

...mprove some Marauder tracing to track this, and show the Marauder-specific AIP in the threat tooltip * Only print AIP Change Messages once, instead of once per AI. It could get overwhelming in

** Lots of features relating to other factions incurring AIP against themselves, and the AI reacting to them. *** And then, lots of features relating to players belatedly incurring AIP if they were to take planets from those third party factions that originall

...non-worthwhile by the upper end of that scale. Now it is 5*shiplevel for AIP. ** Instead of incrementing the counter every 80 seconds by 1 + (AIP / 50), it now increments by 1 + (AI Tech Level - 1) (or, more simply, by AI

* Tweak the numbers for a given Dyson Sphere's max strength per AIP to factor in the Intensity. Show (by percentage) how much of its Max Streng ...in the game lobby, and reconquest waves are locked behind a per-difficulty AIP threshold.

...would be good if someone verified the "killing one individually increases AIP, but killing all of them gives a big net decrease" behaviour * Fixed a bug where AIP was not being applied appropriately if it was on the death of a non-AI-owne

...nor faction owned planets. Note that this means you do not have to pay the AIP cost for the world if you can manipulate a non-allied minor faction such as ...s neutral or player owned. Note that this means you do not have to pay the AIP cost for the world if you can manipulate a non-allied minor faction such as

...lculations involved. Core CPA Guardposts on the Homeworld will always use AIP, and never game length. ...r your current AIP tech level, or 2 if it's lower (so if you've pushed the AIP to Tech Level III it'll act as though it was II when it starts looking for

* The AI gains access to a new type of ship for every 200 AIP. ==What Happens If The AI Progress (AIP) Is Lowered After Passing A Tech-Up Threshold?==

...ver spend, HaP at the end of the game will end up greater than or equal to AIP. These HaP can be spent on a variety of different hacking types; players c ...op accelerators, and AI Eyes. Destroying a unit this way does not trigger AIP-on-death or similar consequences.

** An important change from AIWC is that these don't cost AIP to use. Instead they're simply a limited resource, with a starting stockpil ...randomly kind of like Data Centers. But instead of destroying to decrease AIP, you hack these to increase your warhead stockpile. E.g. a Nuclear Warhead

...of this was that your speed was 4.1x, but on the nastier end it meant your AIP was 4.1x higher. Or on the plus side, your science... ...iming the new Fleet Research Station ships that was not charging you their AIP properly.

...ion]]: '''+15''' ''(Automatically destroys the warp gate for a total of 20 AIP.)'' ...rd Post]]: '''+1''' ''(And unless Lazy AI option is on, it also raises the AIP floor by 10.)''

...ion|Command Station]] in its system is enough to change its +1 aip/h to -3 aip/h. Free outposts that players don't capture will however technically remain ...t a better AIP shift. With sufficient captures, the trend can be inverted: AIP will decrease every hour.

* Fixed an issue where reclaiming a planet you'd lost would cost more AIP. ...game, but that interval increases with AIP until it hits 10 minutes at 100 AIP.

* When you take an AI planet, thus causing an AIP increase, and that in turn causes the AI to unlock a new ship type, the res ...the "Standard" eligibility filter, that's supposed to be a combination of "AIP is high enough to use this Mark Level", "This design does not need to be un

...olation, this AI's planets will not have warp gates, and thus will cost 15 AIP instead of 20 to take. * Viral Clusters no longer cause AIP on death.

...so that MP clients are really frequently getting updates on the status of AIP and waves and similar. * Dire Guard Posts only generate AIP on death when they are owned by the AI

...st.png|50px|left|]] || valign="top" | [[AI War:Alarm Post|Alarm Post]] ('''AIP on death''' / '''Sabotage''')<br/>Wakes up AI units when its command statio ...n="top"|[[AI War:Special Forces Alarm Post|Special Forces Alarm Post]] ('''AIP on death''')<br/>Same as the Alarm Post, but warns [[AI War:Special Forces|

...Progress cost for killing any Neinzul cluster (Neinzul Nests still cost 10 AIP to kill). ...laves it spawns an additional enclave (of the same alignment) for every 75 AIP.

...to prevent the new wormhole from being created. Borers are gated behind an AIP threshold, and can be disabled in the game lobby as well. ** Retribution AIP cost 30 -> 20

...olation, this AI's planets will not have warp gates, and thus will cost 15 AIP instead of 20 to take. ...ey have no attack of their own but can take vastly more damage and cost 10 AIP if destroyed instead of 2.

...Transcendental: Immune to both zombification and nanocaust. As these cause AIP on death, i doubt people would enjoy having them die twice. * Unified access to sprites/colors for terms (ie. AIP, Strength, Metal).

...equivalent speed as before (meaning more health lost per second. Their +1 AIP per X health value has also been increased by 8x. -Botnet Golems now have 4x more health. Their +1 AIP per X health value has also been increased by 4x.

...and make this particularly difficult and/or unbeatable due to the massive AIP increases and possibly the death of your fleet. ...causes the Botnet Golem to have its normal energy requirement and cause no AIP when reactivated. However, whether or not you choose to capture the golem,

...of response. In this case, the frequency of the strikeforces increases as AIP increases. ...of response. In this case, the frequency of the strikeforces increases as AIP increases.

* AIP-increases when destroyed, '''while being owned by the AI''', ''e.g.'' if yo ...efore destroying them, others such as the [[Zenith Reserve]] will increase AIP when destroyed both before and after you capture them.

...'')<br/>Holds AI's memory bits; destroy to make it forget Humans and lower AIP. ...P but destroying all four hampers AI processing power and massively lowers AIP.

...e number shown in [brackets] next to the AIP level) +1. So if your current AIP is generating Mk2 AI reinforcements, expect to see Mk3 units come from the

...chance a wave will spawn before you can kill the last one and reverse the AIP gain. [[Spirecraft Jumpship]]s are particularly excellent for this. If you ...g the four co-processors. While the effective AIP will decrease, the total AIP will increase. This has the side effect of increasing the floor and may cau

** '''Shark-A''' gains AIP with each human command station death. ...AI start with 3 guardian types "unlocked" and gradually unlocking more as AIP increases, rather than having all AIs have all guardian types all the time.

...uardian types, and gets more as AIP goes up: at 50 total AIP and every 100 AIP thereafter (so 50/150/250/etc) it will unlock an additional guardian type.

...mantled and, once built, they must either survive the game or induce their AIP at one point. Warheads are the only kind of units targeted by [[AI War:Core ...players to face warheads. Thankfully, these special warheads don't induce AIP.

...nd are not planning to settle the planet in the future (thus incurring the AIP cost for the planet.) (more details on the Hacking page). Each planet can o Science can also be obtained by destroying a Distribution Node for a small AIP cost, and there are some additional Factions, e.g. Astro Trains, which can

** Does NOT count as a cheat if you are increasing AIP with this. Feel free to inflict that on yourself. ** Destroys 90% of all non-leader, non-contained, non-guardpost, non-AIP-related units in the galaxy, for all factions (including yours).

...f this is that early AIP increases won't actually increase wave size until AIP hits a certain point, unless you're playing on diff 10 where the result fro

...would really benefit if I lost. I understand a Golem being repaired makes AIP go up, and the AI is in its right to get scared of that, but why when it di

...ually), then you're in for much more wicked CPAs than before, even if your AIP is low. ...ordinate numbers of special forces ships, for suggesting the change to the AIP costs of warp gates and command stations, for reporting that teleporting un

...d crystal in exchange for energy, cannot be rebuilt, and cost AI Progress (AIP) if they die *** Human Cryogenic Pods generate energy and cost AIP if they die

...orcements: AI wave sizes and reinforcement budgets are calculated based on AIP, which is then multiplied by a factor shown in the columns below. ...iption uses singular, in reality it is one or more Champion ships based on AIP, both for adding Champions to waves as well as spawning them on its own wor

...m the [[Zenith Trader]]. Train stations bought this way do not incur any [[AIP]] on death. <font size="1">[[Astrotrain#Train Station|Stats]]</font>

...pen one only when you need it, especially on the normal difficulties where AIP is less of a critical concern. On the other hand, regular attention to your

The AIP cost of these warheads might be considered cheap enough for their destructi With an auto-AIP of 1 per half-hour, players might consider the use of a MkI lightning warhe

Just like the [[AI War:Lightning Warhead|Lightning Warhead]], the AIP cost of this kind of weapon might be considered in regard of the amount of Compared to its unarmored counterpart, the armored warhead has twice the AIP cost and requires much more metal. However, it's very resilient and has sel

...ion|Command Station]] in its system is enough to change its +1 aip/h to -3 aip/h. Free outposts that players don't capture will however technically remain

...to handle. This will also reduce the total number of reinforcements if the AIP is low. Note that [[Wormhole Guard Post]]s have very high health. If a system can not be captured, most likely because it is not worth the [[AIP]] increase, you can [[Knowledge-Hack]] a system as well to get the 3000 Kno

'''AIP''' - [[AI War:AI_Story#What_Does_AI_Progress_Really_Represent.3F|AI Progres '''ST''' - [[SuperTerminal]], a structure that can be captured to reduce AIP for as long as it can be held.

...of accumulation are based on difficulty and AIP, capping out at around 200 AIP. Destroying reserve ships lowers the current total. Only the AI that owns

* Human Settlements produce metal but increase AIP on death. The [[AI War:Home Human Settlement|Home]] version produces 50 m/s ...K metal all at once in exchange for a single point of [[AI War:AI Progress|AIP]].

...estroyed. Unless the "Lazy AI" option is activated, they also increase the AIP floor by 10 when destroyed. On the AI homeworlds, the Core Guard Posts cann ...guard posts are also considered Core guard posts and follow the same rule (AIP and command station protection). The number of brutal guard post a homeworl

...this might be particularly difficult and/or unbeatable due to the massive AIP increases and possibly the death of your fleet. ...|Resistance Frigates]]. Failing to defend it in time causes a massive +100 AIP increase.

** Superterminal hacks now decrease AIP instead of increasing it. Whoops. ...ltips to fix a few problems. Add a new Instigator Base type that increases AIP

...local command station and warp gate of the AI in a planet, which both cost AIP, are frequently left alive on purpose, and which are quick to kill when you ...ll tell your units to not try to claim it (sparing you the expense AND the AIP or aggro).

...cience and hacking points present there, since you've already incurred the AIP cost. Hacking the Sphere itself will make it temporarily hostile to you, bu ...be very rewarding, since their core worlds can be claimed without raising AIP (assuming you can get there). This gives you access to a large amount of sc

** When viewing the tech screens, you can now see the AI Level and AIP after the tech levels. * Fixed issues with all resources, including things like AIP, AI Level, and the machine materials, being wiped on load of a savegame.

* Reduce [[AI War:AI Progress|AIP]] by destroying [[AI War:Data Center|Data Centers]] and [[AI War:Co-Process

...inst that planet 3x and if destroyed or scrapped increase the AI Progress (AIP) by 100. Make no mistake, capturing these is mostly a negative thing. There

...iculty - 9 ) * 200. This means that the Mark II thresholds are 148/85/43/0 AIP for difficulty 9.3/9.6/9.8/10. As this additional modifier lowers the Mark

...choose) take your capital fleet and "glass" large swaths of AI territory. AIP is still important, but when your defenses are capable of handling the exog

...ose as you can to firing a continuous storm of warheads without getting an AIP increase, and are also as cheap as Neinzuls. Their health will ensure a lik

The first one is usually worth the 15 AIP. Not so for subsequent ones.

These are quite cheap to use, and a steal at +10 AIP.

...Zenith Trade Ship]], however when bought this way they do not have the +10 AIP on death penalty.

...during the game, however these additional Warp Gates will not increase the AIP when destroyed.

...osition to end the game not long after, as you won't survive a 500 to 5000 AIP value increase.

...r fleet, however you must determine if capturing the system is worth the [[AIP]] cost to get said Mk. V ships.<br/>

...ild if you're being forced to hit a high-mark world early. The one or two AIP in this case is minimal compared to the gain. In particular it can make ea

...g a very non-standard set of tactics, which is based around a very minimal AIP value.

...hyon Warhead|Tachyon Warhead]] can grant you that, however it does have an AIP cost attached.

Completing nebulae before increasing AIP will result in the AI Homeworlds having additional nemesis champions (friga

...kes) on the planet, including the command station, and incur the usual +50 AIP for detonation of a nuclear warhead. Nothing of value will remain.

...g miniaturized versions of the [[Lightning Warhead]] (that do not increase AIP when detonated, of course)<br\>Spawns one [[Lightning Torpedo]] (20 damage)

...| A miniaturized version of the Lightning Warhead (that does not increase AIP when detonated).

The amount of metal required to generate reprisal waves increases with AIP, but this is balanced by the fact that the total metal value of the player'

...lanet. That can save turrets and defense on it but at the cost of a raised AIP due to warp gate removal. Also, if all warp gates leading to Human territor

...nus ship in the lobby, unlocked by AIs at start or as [[AI War:AI Progress|AIP]] increases, and sometimes [[AI War:Hacking|hacked]] for.

...athered normally and provide the usual payoff for the [[AI War:AI Progress|AIP]] increase. Supply can be brought to that planet by capturing at least one

...causes the Botnet Golem to have its normal energy requirement and cause no AIP when reactivated. However, whether or not you choose to capture the golem,

...things could get out of hand in a hurry. This part of the Shark plot gains AIP with each human command station death.<br/>{{ReqVotM}}

...kes) on the planet, including the command station, and incur the usual +50 AIP for detonation of a [[AI War:Nuclear Warhead|Nuclear Warhead]]. Nothing of

...the controller, however! This is because destroying it will increase your AIP. To tell your units that you actually want to capture this planet, you need

AI Progress (AIP) will rise by 15 if this dies.

...awn close to your homeworld and on low level planets initially, but as the AIP becomes higher, they will spawn farther away and on higher mark planets.

* The fleet concentration AIP penalties will now only kick in at 3 fleets on an AI planet, and 5 on a pla

...se problems to the player as they move ships around, and will increase the AIP as the player destroys them.

...ince the origin point gate determines wave composition. Only some HaP or 5 AIP to smack the gate and not the AI command station. And if it forces the AI t