A Question About Anger
I *have* looked for this in the old Messages, so please no comments on that.
Pleased to say I abandoned as lost another game Last night. Restricting oneself to only one kind of planet really makes for a harder game. I was very puzzled by one thing though. I was playing as the crystal guys, gas only, medium map, all warps not connected, temporal power, against the toughest set of opponents I could conjure from Modpack 1.60. Bad mineral production problems for entire game, because I just didn't have access to many good planets. For a long time I had a partnership with the Eee and the Xchiatl (sp?), both rock-based, who were always at war with each other. Long slow peaceful build-up. When everything crashed down on me, I was rated #2, ahead on techs, way behind on production.
Here's what happened. I opened a warp point to Sergetti space and started pounding on them. Immediately the Xchiatl declared war on me, and the Eee got angry. A few turns later, a warp point opened, and the #1 empire, the Earth Alliance, surged in from the south, declared war, and started tearing me up big time. They started off angry when I met them. My question is, what did I do to make them angry? I was quite far from being the Mega Evil Empire. They had no need for my gas planets. Did they immediately start hating me because I had planets in sectors they'd found and immediately claimed? If so, why was their behavior so different from the Eee? And why did the Eee and Xchiatl get pissed and turn on me after I went after the Sergetti?
I spent quite a while studying the various AI anger text files, and I don't get it. Is there a clear explanation anywhere? Thanks!
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