Why in the world.....

Spyder · #1 March 12th, 2001, 07:59 PM

...am I a mega-evil empire when I have routinely given stuff away, put NO ships in ANYONE's airspace, accepted all treaties, broken none, and basically been just a good guy developing his (about a dozen or so) systems?

They should volunteer to join me rather than declare war on me!

I haven't even met but 5 of the 13 races (I had one surrender to me) and each time I met a new race, it hated me right away

It just doesn't seem equitable....I'll win, but, it just doesn't seem like I should have to conquer a civilization who was my closest ally during my early years.

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

jimbob55 · #2 March 12th, 2001, 09:56 PM

Build a load of cruisers with cargo and supply components, bridge, crew + life support, a low tech engine or 2. An equal number of ships to your current fleet tonnage. Give them to your ex ally.
Then you are no longer Mega Evil Empire (just mega devious....)
The ex ally will probably scrap the lot quite fast (assuming they accept the gift at all), so you're going to have to cut back on the number of ships / bases you have. Reducing the number of units in storage could help if you like to stockpile.

Spyder · #3 March 12th, 2001, 10:17 PM

Well, the funny thing is that I met the first two empires and established trade with them. Did all treaties except allied with them. Never built a warship. Just colonized & developed. After awhile, they declared war on me! I didn't have a warship to my name when they declared war! It seems like they should have been honored to be in my presence

They HAD to be scoring mega research & resources on the trade treaty...

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium

Master Belisarius · #4 March 12th, 2001, 10:32 PM

You said:

>After awhile, they declared war on me! I >didn't have a warship to my name when they >declared war!

Well, looks reasonable... In my view, the AI races (maybe, except the peaceful ones), should not have true reasons to attack you. They should fight for simple expansion and supremacy.

Sinapus · #5 March 12th, 2001, 10:43 PM

Set that flag for 'Mega-Evil Empire' in settings.txt to False. It should help.

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Spyder · #6 March 12th, 2001, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Sinapus:
Set that flag for 'Mega-Evil Empire' in settings.txt to False. It should help.

Well, I don't want to cheat

...it just seems that if I'm a nice guy, they should treat me as a nice guy...no matter how big I get, unless their mentality type is contradictory to that. Oh, well...

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Spyder, Chairman of the Arachnid Consortium