Aggressive Torian/Passive Alterans & Humans in TA...?

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Has anyone else had Torrians go completely psycho near the beginning of TA games, build up their military and declare war on every evil race, while the Humans and Alterans never even raise their combat rating above zero, even when someone else declares war on them? Is this intentional or a bug?
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
In my last game the alterians didnt build any combat ships either, but troop transports. While the terrans in another game built plenty of military, but the torians even more.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I've had one game too where the Altarians didn't build a single military ship the entire game. Just a bunch of scouts and troop transports around their worlds.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The last two games I've played, the humans have been the bad boys of the game, aggressively expanding diplomatically and militarily.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Most recent game it was the Thalans - Decently sized empire but built no military even after the Drengin DoWd them. Altarans have been average, but the Terrans were my biggest competitor the game before that.

I am wondering if there is more variation in personalities in the expansion - makes it harder to determine a head of time who are going to be troublesome and who are going to be pushovers
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I'm used to seeing Torians be one of the first races to go, but it seems like they've been overtweaked back the other way now. Of the three TA games I've played (none finished, due to bugs of one kind or another, gah) the Torians seemed to dominate all three, right from the beginning.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Left unchecked, the Torians will mop up a lot of planets and this gives them the basis for a strong economy. I tend to find that they build a lot of ships without engines, and are stuck with those (fleets move at the speed of the slowest ship) in the later parts of the game. They also target colonies that are more than ten turns away at a speed of 4, rather than trying to engage fleets in their own space. There's not much point going to the trouble of reearching and designing ships with the cool and advanced warp drive if you can more cost-effectively slap an impulse engine in there and cut travel time by 50%.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Make the Terrans warmongering (turn their aggression slider all the way up to 100); it'll take them a while to get there as they are in no hurry to militarize. But they will militarize
Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Torians have gone bananas in my game as well. They're by far the large civilization I've met (met them, Krynn, Iconians, Drengin, and Drath so far). Interestingly, I can't place a spy on any of their planets: they don't have any Improvements at all (at least the planets I can see). I'm hoping they're a paper tiger: their influence is starting to hurt, so I'm going to have to start a war with them with nothing but Troop Transports.