Philosophy / Play Style

Gryphin · #1 August 28th, 2002, 01:41 AM

Anybody else have an "Ethical Dilema" playing against humans or AI?

Gryphin · #2 August 28th, 2002, 01:44 AM

Atrocities
Yes you play to win. Still, isn't your major objectoive to have fun?

dogscoff · #3 August 28th, 2002, 01:51 AM

In your "ethical dilemna" I might well have declared on the TDM AI, but more likely I would have gifted loads and loads of tech, ships and resources to the neutral. Heheh...

Also I would have made sure that I had some of his population in my empire, so that even if the empire is lost his race isn't extinct.

In a vsHuman race I would try to support my friends, but seing as both paarties are my allies my decision would depend largely on how much territory/ political leverage/ spoils/ military advantage I can get out of it.

I try to play ethically (especially against those poor AIs), but until I get good against humans I can't afford the luxury of being nice=-)

Arkcon · #4 August 28th, 2002, 01:57 AM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Conclusion to my not so "Hypothetical" question.
Hmm, never should have used that word.

I waited too long. The TDM was on the verge of completing genocide.
To save the race I had to break the treaty and demand their surrender.
I ended up with
Two planets
Less than a total of 100,000 pop.
One Level 1 Space yard
47 TDM ships in the system.

I think I will try to rebuild the system with the native population

Something that would be cool was if you could, on you own initiative, grant autonomy to a planet that you have control over.

There is a demand for that in the diplomacy screen, but a third party has to demand it and you have to accept. Anyone know if that even works.

Gryphin · #5 August 27th, 2002, 02:28 PM

Arkcon
Hmm, About Granting autonomy,
I guess it would be possible to have a friend run an AI for a turn or 2.
They could make the demand, I could comply.

DavidG · #6 August 27th, 2002, 02:38 PM

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Originally posted by Gryphin:
Anybody else have an "Ethical Dilema" playing against humans or AI?

OK Here is one. You are at war with a race (human) and you have a TR treaty with his Partner (also human) Since they are partners you inform the race you have the TR treatie with not to send scouts into your territroy. He ignores these requests. What do you do?

[ August 27, 2002, 13:54: Message edited by: DavidG ]

geoschmo · #7 August 27th, 2002, 02:41 PM

RE: Granting Autonomy... That is not a feature currently avaialble. There is no option to request it in the game, or to accept it if requested. There is logic in the politics file that the AI uses to decide whether or not to accept it, but the request itself has been removed from the game. Not sure why though. It sounds like it would be a cool feature.

[ August 27, 2002, 13:41: Message edited by: geoschmo ]