Ganged Up On By the AI

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How does someone (say, me, for example) play against 2 AI opponents and not end up having the game be a de facto 2v1?  The AI loves to make crazy, impossible-to-fufill mission demands, like tactical destruction, and if you ignore it, you end up on the recieving end of both enemy AIs all the time.  How do you handle this?  I can take one, but with an enemy capital fleet on either side of my empire, I spend more time jumping from fight to fight than fighting.  Especially when they just jump away when I finally show up.
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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Locking the teams does what? Does it make it so the AI players cannot come to a cease fire or peace agreement and therefore will not gang up on the human player exclusively?

J
Offworld Trading Company
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Locking teams removes the missions and forces whatever teams you start with to stay that way all the time. Unfortunately if you're playing a 1v1v1 FFA type match (which it sounds like you are), it doesn't really help.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
at the moment i try 6-7 KIs on large. But i will got killed after 3 hours of gaming. I think its because iam just to slow to manage my empire at this points. Colonies around 3 stars need much management. So sometimes i forgot to pay the pirates in the right moment, or dont rebuild ships fast enough...

then there will come a time where 2 KIS team up and attack me together. At the same time another ki attack me on the other side of my empire...

i think the clue to survive is to make most mission that u can do. Just run for the missions also if u loose some ships therefor. U will get friends. They often dont help u, but te dont attack u in a bad moment :)

My fault in my last game was that i dont attack the ganged KIs early enought.

greets...
rafael.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
How about making the game 2v2 with teams locked so you always have an ally? Then if you can get friendly with one AI it's 3v1 in your favor. I haven't done this yet as I just got the game a few days ago. But its a thought.
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
How about making the game 2v2 with teams locked so you always have an ally? Then if you can get friendly with one AI it's 3v1 in your favor. I haven't done this yet as I just got the game a few days ago. But its a thought.
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But the teams are locked...