Question about diplomacy

It is probably a result of protections against various 'cheese' tactics that were discovered during the beta. It seems like they have removed (or almost removed) the ability of a Race to accept a trade involving their (or apparantly the other's) only planet. This prevents a superior race from trading tech/money/goods for an entire Races territory.

-Dave

if you want to die and have only 1 colony, go the the planet screen select details and then destroy colony, You'll be dead very shortly after that

what were you asking in return? when i decide to 'retire' i give my stuff to someone else.

JayG, I was trying to make peace with Drengin, they rejected,I offered them all my money and all my techs,again "no". Finally I got mad and offered them everything, got rejected and then I quit the game, I was being murdered anyway

JayG
i like that the yor annouce to the world "JayG has retired from the game (:( " the Drengin respond "and jsut when iwas going to have him over for lunch..hic"


rich

see you on the galactic council

JayG,
you can easily give them a few planets at a time. Just not in one big go. Just takes a few mnore clicks.

Paul.

Questions for betas...

1.) Do minor races have their own pictures and animations in the diplomacy screen like the major races?

2.) I know there are events, but are there news events? Specifically will I have to check every turn to see if the A.I.s are at war with a major or minor race or will there be some news event which says, so&so has just declared war on so&so? Or has just conquered the(insert name) empire/race? Thanks.

1) no animations for minors YET. I'm sure that's something that will be added in various upgrades over the year. Some pictures. More would be good.

2) Unfortunately the news items currently don't inform you of wars between other races. This has been mentioned before and will hopefully be added during the year of free upgrades. I particular want to know when a minor I am friendly with is attacked so I can help before it's too late.

On the positive side other races will ask you for help though (which is very cool) and occasional news items will appear telling you how other wars are going.

Paul.

'2.) I know there are events, but are there news events? Specifically will I have to check every turn to see if the A.I.s are at war with a major or minor race or will there be some news event which says, so&so has just declared war on so&so? Or has just conquered the(insert name) empire/race? Thanks.'

These don't come by way of the normal news system, but you do get occasional reports on the activity of other races, and the yearly reports also occasionally mention things of that nature.

it's kind of important for a lot of reasons to maybe check the diplomacy screen every turn, you can see when an a.i. is starting to get mad at you, you can also see who has alliances with each other. adjust how much you spend on destabalizing and espionage. I suggest strongly that you look at the diplomacy main screen a lot as you get started on the game

rich