I had the same experience, with the Dark Yor. They were losing to the Dregin so I gave them about a dozen large ships which I had parked near their world. They never even moved them once. The Dregin just ignored them and continued to attack their planet, even though the ships were within a few squares of the Dark Yor planet. In the end the Dark Yor were conquered without ever moving the ships I gave them.

Yes - same thing here. Another instance of brain-dead AI stupidity.



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MGagne and Skillet -- were the races you gave ships to minor ones? I haven't seen this problem, but I've never given ships to minor races. All the posts here, though, have been dealing with the minors. Maybe there's something in the code that keeps them from expanding that also keeps them from using gifted ships.

Same experience with minor races here.

Stardock, is it possible to get the minor races to be smarter and perhaps colonize like they did in GalCiv1? I can understand that they don't go about conquering, but so far on Normal mode, they have only stayed on their home world waiting to get conquered without even defending too much. Minor races shouldn't be useless meaningless races. I remember in many GalCiv1 games where a minor races or two became a major power, both militarily and trade wise. Although they didn't go about invading planets, nobody dared to invade them because they were strong.

Any help making the minor race AI a bit smarter (or info on how to mod them a bit smarter) would be appreciated.

Minor races shouldn't be useless meaningless races. I remember in many GalCiv1 games where a minor races or two became a major power, both militarily and trade wise. Although they didn't go about invading planets, nobody dared to invade them because they were strong.

I dont know about not invading planets. I was playing today and had a race called the Jesuits, or something like that, declare war on me. Im still relativly new to the game, so i went to the foreign afairs window thinking they were one of the main races, and i couldnt find them. They had about 6 planets as it was. Im going to go back and load that game, check to see if they were a minor race. Must have been.


Edit.. i just loaded the game and checked. It was the Jessuins. They had 10 planets that they had conqured. Thats more then any other race had, including the leading one. So much for being a minor race!!

I have noticed this. I gifted ships to a friendly race who was attacking a bigger race. He kept them around my planet the whole time, and didn't make as much of an effort as he could have to aid his war effort, which lasted almost the whole game.