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Old March 22nd, 2001, 06:25 AM

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I have overpowered two computer empire unfortunate enough to evolve in the same system as me, I tore one of them to shreads and after demanding surrender for 10 turns I simply destroyed them. The other I have blockaded and have demanded their surrender, they refused! I don't get it I triple their score I have blockaded their world their helpless, yet they still defy me! WHY??!
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Old March 22nd, 2001, 06:29 AM

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In a thread a bit back about diplomacy, I asked about subjugation treaties and someone mentioned that you need about 600% of the AI's score to get them to submit to a subjugation treaty and 800% to have them surrender. I think he said the values are stored in the politics.txt files for each race so you can probably take a look to find the exact values.
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For most races it is 1000% or 10x their score. For example, take a look at the Abiddon file in pictures\races\Abbidon\Abbidon_AI_Politics.txt

Score Percent To Accept Demand your surrender := 1000

A couple of the races such as the Amon-Krie have a line that looks like this:

Score Percent To Accept Demand your surrender := 5000

So, they require 50!! times their score before they will surrender.

If you asked the Amon-Krie to surrender, even one ship outside that system *might* have been enough to give him a score so that you didn't beat his by fifty times.
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Default Re: AI Surrender

Maybe these are "typos" ?? Having 5x/10x the score should be sufficient, shouldn't it??

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Nahh. I don't think it is a typo. I think it just makes them like the Klingons who would rather die than surrender.

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Nahh. I don't think it is a typo. I think it just makes them like the Klingons who would rather die than surrender.



The "Default_AI_politics.txt" gives '1000', and the agressive/defensive/neutral AIs too ... all Klingons seemingly .. .

IMHO that makes this option mostly useless ..

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