How to get a (minor) race to declare war on you?

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I admit, they are right when calling me a warmonger, they are right when they say I have a tendency to conquer others, but still I hate being shown the truth.

So: how do you get a minor race to declare war on you?

With the main races its not so tough: park a few warships/troopers around their planets, build a few influence starbases and demand gifts and stuff.

But all that doesn't seem to be working with the minors.

and after taking out a few minor races I have always the double-minus in my relations with the main civs, so I got no other choice than to war them all at once (usually when I declare war on one finally, the others all jump in) and getting an alliance then seems next to impossible.

So: can you force the minors into declaring war on you somehow "efficiently"?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If by "efficiently" you mean "not parking influence starbases outside of their planet until they flip to you" then I don't got an answer. If you cheat and swap to another race, have them pay off the minor race to attack you maybe...but the word 'cheat' is in there.

I think the biggest actor to get them to attack you is for them to have a bigger military rating. There isn't much reason why a minor race w/ two fighters will shoot across the bow of an entire armada of battlestars. NO amount of money makes someone that dumb.

I guess if you get lucky and all the minor races are the same alignment as the Alterans, a simple 2 birds with 1 stone plan may be in effect. you'd still register 1 war, but at least more races will jump on the wagon w/ that one.