AI and surrendering

[Oggy ben Doggy]

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Originally posted by Krakenup:
[quote]So once you have destroyed their ships and bases (not units) and blockaded all their planets, that's all you can do. Glassing planets doesn't help.

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actually, if you glass their planets, you lower their score, which might make them accept you surrender

[Krakenup]

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Originally posted by Oggy ben Doggy:
actually, if you glass their planets, you lower their score, which might make them accept you surrender

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Nope. Blockading subtracts all score for that planet. Glassing does not reduce the score further.

[Master Belisarius]

"Glassing does not reduce the score further"

I disagree 100% with you!
IF you glass all the AI planets, you will see that their score will be really low!!!!

[Oggy ben Doggy]

quote:

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Originally posted by Krakenup:

Originally posted by Oggy ben Doggy:
actually, if you glass their planets, you lower their score, which might make them accept you surrender

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Nope. Blockading subtracts all score for that planet. Glassing does not reduce the score further.

Well, i had every planet blockaded and they had no ships. whenever I glassed a planet their score dropped, eventually they surrendered.

which may have been the loss of mineral, intelligence, and research production.

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[This message has been edited by Oggy ben Doggy (edited 09 August 2001).]

[Q]

What I would like to be introduced would be the possibility for the AI to
1.) demand surrender
2.) 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.

[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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[Q]

As I said it would be an option you may or you may not give the AI in its politics file. It would make the AI stronger and prevent human players to grow rapidly by making AI empires surrender to them.
About realism: I do not care about it! For me its a game and not a simulation.