Iconians declare war, do nothing, then ask for peace

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Hi.  I played a whole lot of GalCiv 2 in the past and have now jumped in on GalCiv 3 to see what's going on in the galaxy.

I've been playing a game as the Yor, and the Iconians keep going through the same pointless cycle:

1. They declare war.

2. Sometimes I see one of their ships flying near one of my planets.  It is a medium size ship, quite a bit stronger than my small ships.  It never attacks, and after a couple of turns, flies away.

3. Six to eight turns later, the Iconians ask for peace and I accept.

A dozen or so turns later, they declare war again and the same cycle repeats.  It's now gotten quite annoying.   :annoyed:  

What's the point of declaring war if they aren't going to attack?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

The AI is very, very stupid in this build. It's apparently better in the next one, but we don't have the next one yet.

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Vidszhite, reply 1

It's apparently better in the next one,
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its always better in the next one

 

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top


Hi.  I played a whole lot of GalCiv 2 in the past and have now jumped in on GalCiv 3 to see what's going on in the galaxy.

I've been playing a game as the Yor, and the Iconians keep going through the same pointless cycle:

1. They declare war.

2. Sometimes I see one of their ships flying near one of my planets.  It is a medium size ship, quite a bit stronger than my small ships.  It never attacks, and after a couple of turns, flies away.

3. Six to eight turns later, the Iconians ask for peace and I accept.

A dozen or so turns later, they declare war again and the same cycle repeats.  It's now gotten quite annoying.   :annoyed:  

What's the point of declaring war if they aren't going to attack?
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Their trying to extort money and techs from you for you to ask them for peace? the drengin do this to me accept peace then 2-5 turns later they declare war again.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

They are just accidentally clicked on the declare war button and really just wanted to trade something with you....  Oh wait that was me.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

There are other AI erratic, poor choices and strategies too. I assume it will be better in the next build as they've said.

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

ive seen a lot of this too. One game we played, every faction in the galaxy declared war on us within 5 turns of meeting, but none of them ever did anything or made the slightest hostile action. And after months of being formally at war without firing a shot, they might agree to peace at my expense.

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

In my experience, it can often be explained by looking at the motivators in the Diplomacy window. "You are out of our reach" or however it goes is typically the reason - they're pissed off enough at you to declare war (if you're avoiding building up a military at the start, this'll easily cause early declarations of war), but they don't bother to check if they can actually send warships out your way before declaring war. Then it's "oh... right... nevermind."