Avoiding Evil Empiredom

[Arbitrary Aardvark]

In my current (devnul mod) game, I've managed to become the evil empire. I think I primarily became one through overly aggressive colonizing.
I'm really in a weak position, since I'm short on
resources and most colonies are under-developed and located in systems with my new enemies. If I
lose enough colonies, will I stop being the evil
enemy?

[Atrocities]

Dude, *shakes head* To put it simply, no.

[Gozra]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Dude, *shakes head* To put it simply, no.

Wrong answer. In a recent 1.49 game at PBW I turned into the evil empire at the same time the computer did a turn for us. My Empire lost all the trade money. I had outlying colonies attacked and destroyed. the Empire wide depression that followed caused me to lose ships. After several turns I made peace with The AI's and Humans after losing Evil Empire Status Due to the reduction of My empire.

[Baron Munchausen]

Yep, Mega-Evil can change. It's especially interesting in single player when an AI gets there first because you can ally with the other AIs and gang up on it, but your superior planning and organization skills will lead you to replace it and they will eventually all turn on you.

Also, by changing the Mega-Evil reaction in the AI_Politics files you can reduce the 'instant enemy' effect and make a much more realistic shift of attitude that takes several turns.

[Nodachi]

Since MEE is score-based just losing ships and planets shouldn't change that status. Unless your score can go down, which is something I hadn't noticed. Anyone know for sure?

Edit OK, I just checked. Your score does go down as you lose things. So, my original answer is wrong, if you are MEE and your opponents do enough damage your status should change.

Nodachi

[ June 12, 2002, 18:35: Message edited by: Nodachi ]

[RiTz21]

Woah !!

Hold a sec. What do you guys mean by this "evil Empire" ? Could someone clarify please?

thanks !
RiTz21