This is the greatest game killer for me currently:

Some races wont build any military ships what so ever during the whole game.

We are talking game YEARS. My settings are no tech trading, large galaxy, default rest, 5 opponents, very slow tech.


Drath are terrible and wont build any military, they rather research huge hulls or something else pointless, I had them as allies for a couple of years but even at the end they had a military score of ZERO. Other games they are building battleships with particle beams??

Altarian are researching Duranthium armor etc but still can't build a single military ship.

Terrans are doing it sometimes as well, massing constructiors, having Industrial Sector but cant build a single point of military.

Other races are doing this as well, Thalans for example.

These are just some examples and they happening game after game. So it isn't an isolated case. Why is it so that the AI can't do such a fundamential thing as defend itself with some basic military ships?

Is someone else having similiar problems or do I have to enable tech trading to give them some military techs? It's like playing civ4 and some civs is just building warriors the whole game.

Atleast force the AI to pick basic military techs before letting it wander of deep in the tech tree, like researching advanced barren colonization when ppl are attacking them with particle beams.