The other civs rate Military strength far, far too highly. Civs that rely on your trade for a significant portion of their income will attack you if your military is too low. Civs that are pursuing diplomatic or influence victories will behave likewise. Even civs at the other end of the map (i.e. that cannot even reach you due to range) will declare war for no apparent reason, even if you have been trading with them. This is the experie
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Just had a fairly frustrating experience in a recent game. 9 oppenents, difficulty set to 'tough', playing as Terrans. I'm tempted to give you the history of my empire here, but I doubt anyone cares, so I'll just get to the point. (This'll still be a long post, it has to be in order to make sense) Some..less than noble ethical choices put me aat odds with the Altarians, with whom I shared a border. It put me in the good books o
Title says it all really. The game has been running fairly smoothly (Occasional crashes to desktop) but today I noticed that the game crashed whenever I attempted to invade a planet. I have not had this error before: Indeed, earlier in the same game I had wiped out an enemy civ by invasion. I have tried saving and reloading, both using quicksave and by saving to a different file. I have rebooted my PC. Is this bug known to the devs, and has anyone else on these boards exper