Minor race AI adjustments

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From all my dealings so far with minor races, I haven't seen them ever colonize beyond their starting sector.

I haven't ever seen them actively fight another player either, be it sending ships to attack distant sectors or actually sending transports to capture other worlds. Has anyone seen them do either of these?

One thing they do seem to do a good job of is build trade guilds before I can >:(

I think it would spice up the game a little bit if some of the minor race AI was a little more aggresive, in colonization and warfare. If left unchecked for a long time, I would like to see them eventually colonize planets on sectors nearby to them, maybe not with the speed that the full blown AI does, but the occasionally strong minor race would add some twists into the gameplay at higher difficulty levels for me.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
AFAIK minor AIs cannot colonize outside their sector. this is what makes them "minor AIs". otherwise they'd be identical to the major AIs.

cheers

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Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
I have seen them enter combat. I enlisted one of them in my sector to join me against the Dregin. He was quite agressive in sending combat ships.
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
I've relied heavily upon them in war. They don't send out transports, but if you have one in your sector, it acts as a great defensive position. They can be quite proactive at interception.
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I sat there once watching at least 20 dreadnoughts through a sector two sectors away from their homeworld.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
I've seen 4 planets revolt from the Drengin to the I-League in a period of a few months. When I finally explored the area they were in, the I-League was sending huge squadrons of StarFighters to the Drengin homeworld.

~SDC~
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
I was once at war with the I-League, and they sent an unending stream of starships at my relatively impregnable, starbase-supported stacks of dreadnoughts.

As for trade goods - I've managed to get to the point that I can build all the trade goods before any other race (on normal, anyway). I need to find some other opening strategies that don't rely upon squeezing blood from all the stones through judicious application of trade good monopolies. :)

~SDC~
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
I've seen minor races giving me warships for free when I was at war, even though we weren't allied.