bug? i can see all my opponents in the foreign rel. screen

i started playing galciv2 maybe 2 weeks ago and i really like most of it a lot (imo ai is not superintelligent, but until now i played only three or four levels under suicidal).

yesterday i downloaded the heightmaps file and since then i can see all my opponents in the foreign relations screen, even in round one when i started a new game.
would be nice if anyone could help me
thx

ps: excuse my words, i am not a natural speaker:)
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Reply #1 Top
Hi!
It seems that if you start the game with "friendly" relations to someone, you can also talk to him from the start.

BR, Iztok
Reply #2 Top
When you choose your opponents, that "friendly" setting Iztok mentioned will not reset even if you have the game randomly choose your foes. When you start your next game, I'd specify your own opponents, set the number to nine (the maximum), and then manually check that each opponent square is set to "unknown" (I think that's the word) instead of "friendly." It'll stay that way until you manually change it again.
Reply #3 Top
that solved my problem, thank you two.
every relation better than hostile makes me see my opponents, so i can only choose between hostile, in war or unknown.
is there a possibility to make ai more aggressiv?
if i choose hostile ( i dont know if hostile is the word you read, i dont play the english version) relation to an ai opponent, is he hostile only to me or to everyone?

another question: if i start a new game and come to the screen where i choose my race, all races' political party is federalists (economic bonus). then i choose e.g. the drengin, set their party to warparty, go to the next screen to save it and then two screens back to choose another race. now the drengins have the warparty. but if i choose adequate parties for all the races, the program always forgets something, without any pattern. sometimes it works, sometimes not. now: is it important to give parties to the ai races or do they choose them for themselves? and why doesnt the program save my settings?
i hope this was understandable and thank you for reading

greeting
ds
Reply #4 Top
is there a possibility to make ai more aggressiv?
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Yes. Click on an AI when your deciding which races will be in a game, click on 'Edit'(something like that), click on the Personality tab and you will find an Aggressiveness slider.
Reply #5 Top
i am playing galciv2 dread lords and i do not find any edit-your-opponent option.
maybe you could exactly describe where i find it ( iam sorry for beeing blind) or just tell me that it doesnt exist in dl (what i expect ).

thx
ds
Reply #6 Top
Editing opponents is only in DA.
Reply #7 Top
thanks for the answer.

but still i dont know if i should give political parties ( and maybe skills?) to my opponents and why the program doesnt save my settings. maybe someone could answer this question.

have a good time
ds
Reply #8 Top
Greenman, as far as I understood what you wrote, you are changing the parties like you were changing the parties for a human player. That is not necessary. All the things you can change can be affected on the screen where you choose your opponents.

Your back-and-forth-maneuver is not necessary, but I might be wrong, since I never bother with setting the parties of my opponents.

Notger.
Reply #9 Top
Changing parties on races in DL is ineffective on the AI--they'll pick their own either way.