Novel (plus cheap and easy) way to start all out war
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Was trying something a bit different yesterday. On maso, I set all the AIs to good. I then took all neutral random choices to keep my morality score at 50. About midway (or earlier?) through the game, all the AIs had alliances with each at least one other AI (because they are all good).
I then allied myself with the weakest AI (as it's easiest and cheapest to get an alliance with a weak AI).
The next random event I then took the evil option which pushes my morality rating below 50. Immediately all the AIs except my ally then started slipping towards hostile. Eventually the strongest one (Torians) declared war. My (weak and useless) ally came to my aid which then started a domino effect since he was allied with someone else who was allied with someone else. End result everyone was at war with at least one other race.
I then took a good random colony event which pushed me back to 50+ and made peace with the Torians who had declared war on me. The other races then proceeded to beat the crap out of each other and all trade with me resulting in an easy win.
Don't think I would do this again as it would get cheesey very fast. Also I don't know if it helps/detracts from a good score as I don't really bother with the maximum score thing. But it's good for a one-off laugh if you want to try it.
I then allied myself with the weakest AI (as it's easiest and cheapest to get an alliance with a weak AI).
The next random event I then took the evil option which pushes my morality rating below 50. Immediately all the AIs except my ally then started slipping towards hostile. Eventually the strongest one (Torians) declared war. My (weak and useless) ally came to my aid which then started a domino effect since he was allied with someone else who was allied with someone else. End result everyone was at war with at least one other race.
I then took a good random colony event which pushed me back to 50+ and made peace with the Torians who had declared war on me. The other races then proceeded to beat the crap out of each other and all trade with me resulting in an easy win.
Don't think I would do this again as it would get cheesey very fast. Also I don't know if it helps/detracts from a good score as I don't really bother with the maximum score thing. But it's good for a one-off laugh if you want to try it.
That was supposed to be a secret between you, me and New Zealand!!!!!!
