Diplomatic victory

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Originally posted by Stone Mill:
Yep the AI is really easy to fool with trades... that's well established.

Well, stock AI's at least. Of course, if you're going to lie and offer them all three colonization techs 50x each, they probably won't be able to resist, but what fun is that? That's like telling your little brother, "I'll give you this brand new shiny penny for that ugly old quarter." But many AI's, notably TDM ones, have pretty stiff requirements for accepting trades (30-to-1 in their favor or even more). Plenty are also programmed not to surrender, instead of that low 10x score differential in stock AIs. All in all, the AI can avoid some stupid decisions if you avoid taking advantage of their natural stupidity.