Ally thinks I want to kill them

Is that a commentary on me?

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Ok, I need to set the scene a bit. I and playing as humans (modified the name to Earth Commonwealth) and I'm doing ok, I'm in a little corner of the galaxy at war with the Drengin. My allies, the Torians, are also at war with the Drengin. On the other side of the Galaxy is a class 19 planet, I want it. Any colony ships the Drengin send are destroyed by the Torians, the Torians show no interest in it so I see my opportunity. I send a colony ship off to colonise the planet, the ship is shot out of the sky by the Drengin, dang. I send a second colony ship under Frigate escort. Unfortunately halfway through Torian (my ally) space I get the "Remove your ships or we will remove them for you" message...from my gorram ALLY! I ignore it as I really want that planet. Just after colonising it the Torians declare war on me, the alliance is broken and they take the planet off me!

Now I won both wars (hehehehe) but shouldn't races start to trust you after a little while?

I'm yet to upgrade to 1.31 so it could be that but if there isn't already one this may be a possible future bug fix.

Edit: I should also point out that the ships escorting the colony ships were outdated flying bathtubs that posed no threat to anything.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The AI doesn't usually seem to get upset about fighting ships or even a fleet or two of them, but transports (and perhaps colony ships are considered the same) are a big deal. But it usually takes at least a few turns for the AI to get upset about transports. If the colony ship was in Torian space for 4 or 5 turns it makes sense. If it was 2 or 3 turns you can usually get away with it.

I had a similar case in v1.31. I was friendly with the Korx and we were both at war with the Iconians. I had no ships at all in Korx space, but I had a stack of about 10 fleets consisting of 5 top line attack fleets and 5 fleets of 11 transports each. This stack was perhaps 10 parsecs from Korx space but apparently that was close enough. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise because the Korx ships had a much more favorable mix of weapons and defense for me than the Iconians.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah, another Apostle of the Church of Joss Whedon.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ally thinks I want to kill them


Well simply let them know that you DO want to kill them, by killing them.