Speaking of war,,,

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Has anyone else ever had this happen to them: For some reason the AI declares war on me, at what point in the game is irrelevant since it happens all throughout the game, but doesn't have a single attack ship of any kind. It's actually beneficial from what I can tell because if someone declares war on me, I just sit and wait. After a while they offer a peace treaty, which I accept. A few turns later one or two, and I've even had three, other civs offer me cold hard credits in admiration of my benevolence. If I am lucky enough, I may get four or five declarations of war against me from a civ that just doesn't have anything near enough to even be a threat. I wait em out for the peace treaty and then presto, instant cash offerings! Just curious if this happens to anyone else.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Same here Stormbringer. It always confused me as to what was going on in the code that would make that kind of behavior o.k. Although, I haven't played this game in the last 3 updates since they keep adding and altering so much stuff by the time I play it again, it'll be like I'm playing GalCiv 3!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I can shed some light on this.

Evil Stormbringer what level r u playing on?

This AI behaviour only exists at low levels of play. That is why no one else is seeing it. Please state yr level of play in future posts, otherwise u will confuse people.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have never even had a civ that did not have a single ship let alone them attacking me with nothing!
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Okay, I admit it!!!, I usually play on the easier levels but seriously, I have had this happen all the way up to the normal difficulty level. I honestly haven't dabbled into anything harder than normal, since I had major issues with this game running properly(didn't want to get into a major game and have a crash!)But things have been running great(knock on wood)so far so it is now time to up the diff. But yes, this war thing happens to me from cakewalk up to normal. Don't know after that. Sorry for the confusion people, but still thought it was worth bringing up.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
On higher difficulties in 1.3, the AI will prepare for war in advance of the declaration as your relations degrade. So this is most likely an example of the extreme incompetence of normal and below AI
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I have never even had a civ that did not have a single ship let alone them attacking me with nothing!


By saying that the AI didn't have a single ship, I meant of the attack or transport variety. Yes, they have freighters and survey/scout ships but I am saying that war is declared and my opponent doesn't have any attack vessels with which to wage war nor transports to bring troops to the ground.