AI Suprise Attack!

A wonderful surpise, is it an anomoly?

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Playing Dark Avatar 1.80g, suicidal difficulty...

I'm playing as the Thalans, in a long, drawn-out war with the Drath.  Each turn when I hit the turn button, I had become acustomed to clicking through the numerous battle sequences.  Clicking almost too fast, I thought I saw the Arceans attack one of my ships!  I thought perhaps this was just a graphical glitch.

I had been at peace with the Arceans throughout the enitre game, had great relations including trade and treaties with the Arceans, we had been getting along just peachy.

Then, the next screen pops up, confirming it: the Arceans invaded and took one of my planets.

At the completion of the turn, I receive the drop-down indicator that the Areans declared war on me.  There was no diplomatic declaration of war, they just surprise bombarded me.  Nor did I receive any indications that someone had paid them to attack me.

This is wonderful!  In all my time playing Dread Lords and Dark Avatar, I can not recall the AI ever using a surprise attack like that.  In fact, (as has been stated before by players) the prior build up of military force and surprise attacking the enemy without bothering to declare war first using the diplomacy screen is a bit of an unfair advantage that the player enjoys.

I'd like to see the AI take advantage of this tactic more often.  Perhaps this option is only available to the AIs at very high difficulty levels?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Very interesting...I'd like to see more of that too!

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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I agree!
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
At last, that's going to leave me completely screwed at multiple occasions.

I like it!
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Happend to me too while I was playing TA... no declaration of war and next turn... BOOOOOOM all my 4 asscension starbases and many ships were lost.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So they have taught the AI to be as treacherous as a human. I am both thrilled and a little scared , guess I will have to start watching my back from now on.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah. I hope this wasn't just some quirk. 1.80g has been out for a while, so I doubt this is some new code added in. I haven't tried ToTA yet (although I did pre-order it) Wonder what Frogboy would have to say?
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
happend to me a long time ago in dark avatar
hasnt happend since i stopped playing gigantic maps though (maybe computer doenst process everything fast enough)
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
So they have taught the AI to be as treacherous as a human. I am both thrilled and a little scared , guess I will have to start watching my back from now on.
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I just hope that Brad doesn't design the first real robot AI.
Reply #9 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
My favorite was, during the beta I had the AI invade a planet of mine, without a war declaration that round nor the next. For some reason it was acting as if my planet was one of another race they were already at war with.

Same goes for another bug in which the DL took over a planet that the Torians had somehow already controlled. So a Torian ship was in orbit right alongside DL ships. I had to declare war on the Torians just to destroy the DL. Which was harsh since they owned the biggest chunk of the galaxy. I just figured the AI found a way to get buddy-buddy with the DL and join forces...I have kept my eye on those frogs ever since.