Why does fleet defense AI have a 4x damage multiplier?

"Schnitzelmaker;c-1559006" wrote:

"Mr_Sausage;c-1558998" wrote:

"Schnitzelmaker;c-1558983" wrote:
Because he AI have a buff on their stats on defense because they are not really smart .

Is this fact or speculation?

Does CG ever tell if anything is a fact?

But its easily observable.
Especially Ship Speed and HP.
Have seen a lot of time that slower enemy ships attack first before your own faster ships.
Similar for HP. Health Bar for Enemy Ships are bigger than your even if your Ship have more HP in the Stats.


And which was more surprising for me the own Ships in defense have lesser problems to defeat an enemy than having them on auto in attack. Which normally should be the same?

speed is by far the easiest to prove, yet no one has ever done so. I wonder why that is...
The smaller the health bars are, the more there are, the more health a unit has.
I don't know what you mean with that last sentence.
Anyway, it's just speculation and ea/cg have always denied there was an AI advantage. I don't see the benefit in lying about that, especially since they made the AI weak on purpose so that the players can feel good about winning on offence. It just doesn't make sense to have weak AI, but buffed stats.