Do you see any AI ships in SS6.1?

[Caesar Clivus]

I was just doing some testing tonight when I noticed that no AI faction was building any ships. I checked out a saved game from a different campaign and noticed that there wasn't any AI fleets on the entire map apart from a few rebel navies. So I'm just wondering if you see the AI building ships in your games (using SS6.1)? I'm talking about actually building ships, not just the ones they start the campaign with. This has me a little perplexed

[cedric37]

I played for a long while ss6.1 and AI always builded ships if it had shipwrights.
Now i plays ss6.2 and AI seems to build even more ships ^^

[Sokar Rostau]

Yup, same here. Wipe out a navy and they'd have a new one a few turns later. Maybe you're just unlucky or accidentally did something you;re only noticing now.

[Navajo Joe]

Caesar,
Interesting that you noticed this, I have not played 6.1 for six months, but on reflection, the AI factions fielded a very low amount of ships. I played as Norway and required control of the Baltic and the North Sea, built up to 9-12 units of ships, feared as to what could be thrown at me. I did not need those ships other than transport and scrapped all but two. Infact there were very few pirate fleets as well. Local sea supremacy was far too easy and simply no faction challenged me on the high seas.
However I am 35 turns into a 6.2 game and the Moors are fielding 5 ship fleets already at me, playing as Portugal and they are very aggressive and looking for trouble

[Titus001]

I only play 6.1. Egypt took over Crete and Cyprus when I was playing as Byzantium.