I had recently download the 1.2 patch and began playing a game on Crippling difficulty. After my intial exploration and colonization of the galaxy, I noticed that mainly the evil civilizations did not colonize any planets, ones that were very close to their home world.
It wasn't until the midgame that other civs colonized them and the evil civs still just sat there. Figuring it was just a glitch, I quicksaved and restarted the game hoping it would fix itself even though they were going to be doomed anyways.
After the game started up again, I started talking with the evil civs and went to see how much money they had and they had each over 20k! This led me to believe that either they were insanely thrifty with their cash, or they simply did not use it. I looked down to see what ships they had available, but they both had a substantial amount of ships. I didn't know what was going on.
It wasn't too long before the Altarians came along with their zealous dogma to destory all evil and wiped both the Drengin and the Yor out easily. The only other civ leaning towards evil (other than myself, I can't help but not to pass up those planet quality events) was the Korx, who were also struggling with their one planet. Knowing that I was next in line for a war with the Altarians, I becasme chums with the Korx and traded some tech and ships to them to bolster them up with the intentions of using them as decoys, giving myself more time to bolster up my military.
Doing just what I had hoped for, the Korx declared war on the Altarians after they declared war on me. The Korx disptached the ships I gave them while I held off still researchingtechs and upgrading my ships. The Korx preformed well and while the Altarians pushed through their defenses, I positioned my military and began to take the Altarian worlds all the way to their capitol which fell easily. I again tarded more ships to the Korx and they used them to finish off the Altarians remaining fleets. It was only after this did the Korx build any troop transports and taking other planets. And after the Altarians surrendered to me, the Korx began building their own ships and taking other planets and wiping out other civs.
The alliance between the Korx and I lasted the rest of the game and we dominated the other civs. I would really like to know how the events in the beginning took place and why they did. The AI should've have been able to explore and colonize other worlds and at least build up their military forces to defend well against other opponents. Has anyone else come across something similiar to this?
