AI and surrendering

[dogscoff]

QUOTE:
surrender to a third party: if the AI is in a situation where he would accept surrender, he would do it to but not to the empire that is demanding it but to his ally with the highest score. You would have a line in the politics file to choose if this possibility was true or false for each race.
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I don't like this, it is completely pointless and unrealistic. Think about it - the only reason a government would surrender is to prevent the dstruction of their cities and population. Surrendering to someone other than your attacker will not acheive that, since the attack will simply continue. (unless that ally is also allied with your enemy.)

It really winds me up in PBEM when playrs can't be bothered to continue so they just surrender to their friend - I'd hate to see the AI doing it as well.

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