To get to the point jump to the second parragraph About 20 game years ago I found an NPR race who used box launcher FACs to kill a pair of comercial freighters and a beam battleship on a system next to sol. Becouse of my scientists I had developed a beam based fleet and box launchers were perfect against me, so I dedicated myself to prevent the enemy from finding sol and hunted their explorers everyhere I could. I also concentrated on finding their home system, when I finally did, 2 heroic scouts sacrificed themselves to obtain data on thier ships.
Thats when I met the deaththrower, a 8700 ton ship capable of detecting my fighter active scouts before they detected them, they killed my scouts with missiles, best speed is over 8000. So I spent 2 decades adapting my fleet and strategy to them. I finally decide to asault the system and sent several active and pasive fighter scouts first, I detected thembut due to a mistake they detect one of my slow obsolete scouts and chase it. They get into their missile range but they launch no missiles, I thod they may carry beam weapons and not wanting to spend ammo continue the chase, but then they get to point blank range and don´t fire!, after that they follow my scout spaming me with thermal contact interrupts.
The thing is, that now I am disapointed becouse of all the fear I had and all the preparation for battle only to find an incompetent enemy. Maybe they use box launchers and are out of missiles? that would be strange since they were orbiting a large colony (maybe homeworld) when my passives detected the fleet. Maybe they can but don´t want to launch and are only baiting the rest of my fleet?
They also have no missile defence.
Can anyone explain this? Can I edit my enemy somehow if it is the case they are useless ships as I presume?
Also, for future experimentation purpouses I´d like to know how to duplicate save files in the future, I don´t plan on cheating since I like the fear it causes me to not be able to save, but in this game I´d like to in order to have a more interesting battle in the case that this one is to easy.
Sorry about the text wall, english is no my mother languaje bla bla bla.