[Alpha Kodiak]

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Originally posted by Barnacle Bill:

In conjunction with peaceful victory condition options, I think it would also make sense to have another condition for declaring a Mega Evil Empire. Various "evil" actions would be worth a number of "atrocity points". The game would keep a running total for each race, with maybe a very slight automatic reduction so you could eventually "live down" bad things you did a long time ago. This would affect the mood of "Nice guy" AI's about you (maybe the others, too, other evil races would not dislike you because your are evil, they just would not trust you because they know what they would do if you expose your back to them ). If your atrocity point total reaches some limit, you become the Mega Evil Empire regardless of your size (kind of like Saddam Hussein or Milosevic getting the US & NATO ganging up on them).

"Evil" acts would include breaking treaties, declaring war (assuming we fix the issue about the AI colonizing in your territory), bombing planets after the WP's are destroyed, jettisoning population cargo, using biological weapons, refusing peace treaties offered by your opponent in a war (not counting where they try to make you a protectorate or subject), etc... Each act would be worth different points depending on how bad it is, with those involving killing population being proportional to the number you killed.

I agree with the idea of an option for certain victory conditions which have been unabled for a particular game being selectively blocked to a race depending on its culture. Also, if you are not supposed to be evil then racking up atrocity points should make your own population unhappy! On the other hand, if you are supposed to be evil maybe your people get unhappy because you are a wimpy leader if your attrocity point is too low.

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I totally agree with this. Also, it might be good for the AI to look at this rating when deciding to offer treaties.

"Let's see, this empire wiped out the Last 5 empires that made trade alliances with it. I know, let's offer a trade alliance to it."