Lamest game ever

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I just finished a game in which I was just managing to keep on top of the other races' progression, when suddenly in the course of less than half a year 5 of the 9 races surrendered to one of the other races. How lame is that?

I specifically started with all "rare" settings (habitable, stars and planets) and 9 races so that there would not be a "colonization rush".

If the only way the AI can possibly manage to win a game is to have all the races surrender to one other one, this game just isn't worth playing any more. This is the cheese tactic to beat all cheese tactics.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I wonder if this is for some strange inhabition that they cannot colinize something an extreme distance from there homeworld.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As far as I know, the AI does not collude ... i.e. it treats the human player like any other player. At least thats what they say in their marketing materials.

There is a wonder (i think it is called empathy center or something of the sort) that makes it much more likely that other civilizations will surrender to you. It is likely that one of the AI civilizations researched that wonder and thus got all other AIs that are having trouble in their wars to surrender to it. The fact that you have your game at all rare, would probably make it more likely for AI civs to surrender because they would have fewer planets and thus be closer to losing even if they just lose one planet.

Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The AI has not cheated. It is likely that the AI they surrendered to has:

- A good/matching alignment
- Good relations with the surrendering races
- Possibly some wonders
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
As a human player this is something I would do and even suggest (in diplomacy) to other human players to do to a player I didn't like or was leading in the game. It's human nature to want the person in the lead to LOSE especially if you are losing and/or they have been relentlessly attacking you and taunting you the entire game. It would be quite a LAUGH to then see one other race become 3x more powerful than this one individual (origional poster) haha And of course many would have the attitude the origional poster has of "this game is lame and I'm not going to play it anymore" lol Seen that happen a lot in human played Diplomacy as well.

So, go play your "I am god" game where you never lose and attempt to make yourself seem superior to the AI that's not hard at all since 99.9% of all the rest of the games AI's allow for this.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I dunno... a cheesy game won by a cheesy tactic? I mean, you're out there to expand, explore, colonize and conquer. You neutered half of the game, and then an unexpected twist neutered you!