Miner Race A.I

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Why are the miner races spamming infuence bases all over the place.They have no borders so it seems a strange strategy,lol.

I would like the miners to be taken a little more seriously in the game.They should be just building defences and be a hard nut to crack,not wasting resources for no reason,ala Influence bases.

I would also like them to voluntary give you their planets when the relations bar reaches the top.It gives you a reason to build good relations with them.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
They are diplomatically attempting to flip worlds in their favor, that's their goal. Not the borders or influence points, but cultural war. If they feel threatened by you, they will do this often.
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Minor Races tend to build Influancer Bases to keep from being obsorbed into your culture. I find the best aproch with them is to help them out, and trade with them, you can pritty much realy on them not attacking you, and they can be a good sorse of techs, and mony.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There's a Miner Race? Is that some sort of pick-axe mini-game? *rimshot* Yeah, lame joke, I know.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I replied to a different thread and somehow my answer came here. Message purged
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
A minor race hasn't got the power to put a cultural attack on a major, it is pointless strategy.They should be defending their only planets with bases and ships.

"Minor Races tend to build Influancer Bases to keep from being obsorbed into your culture."

I didn't think you could flip miner races.And they are not defending their homeworld,they are spamming bases all over the place.
Reply #6 from Stardock Forums Top
Hmm.... I wonder... it does mention esbionoge (spelliing is bad . ) maybe this 'pick axe' will work ?

*waves pick axe at dark yor ambasador*

I have seen some odd tacts used by minor ai. Like filling up the only starport with non-com craft. I just figured they were screwy. and i have seen then try to use influncers offensivly against a major ai. It dident seem to do anything at alll, but i was playing at beginer.
Reply #7 from Stardock Forums Top
The game I just played had one of the two minor races become probably the 3rd biggest economy in the galaxy. Very agrssive with trade, and built nice fleets of ships to defend himself with that were at least as good as anything anyone else could have thrown at them. Maybe that was because I was using him as a tech fund - unlike the majors I wasn't concerned about him using weapons tech to attack me, so I sold him things I wouldn't sel to the others.

The other one was pretty lousy, but I think that was mostly because he started right on my doorstep and I abused the heck out of him.
Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Maybe that was because I was using him as a tech fund - unlike the majors I wasn't concerned about him using weapons tech to attack me, so I sold him things I wouldn't sel to the others.


It's a safe bet he turned around and sold all those techs to the majors anyway. That's probably the real reason he got so big.