A person in another thread made an interesting comment:
"The AI is always bad at strategy, but if it could react better to problem situations it would a lot better".
I was thinking, what if the AI had access to a secret pool of credits. These are not normally credits that they can trade or blow...but would be used specifically to perform strategy changes.
So for example, upgrading ships to respond to a weapon change.
The AI could not use this pool normally, only when a "strategy change" request came in.
Thoughts?