Noob question about AI and diplomacy

[Sombre]

The AI does seem to react to you doing certain things, like attacking it - I mean to say if you're at 'war' with the AI (they've declared it on you) and you don't fight them at all and they're also at war with someone else, well then they tend to slack off attacking you. Whereas if you keep going for them, they turn their full attention to you.

Or so it seems.

As for attacking you if you're strong,.. I don't think so. This doesn't always happen in MP either ;]

[lch]

Eh, whenever I played SP the AI declared war on me as soon as it could see me, even long before I could see it (scouts, probably). Don't really think that there is some option about coexistance. But the AI does kinda leave you alone sometimes, or doesn't do anything against you after declaring war.