Making Peace / declaring war turn on turn

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I noticed in my current game (Painful Gigantic Seven Races all abundant), that some Races were declaring war and peace almost on alternate turns.

The triggering Event was where a Race (Alterians in this case) became too powerful "and all should declare war on them" produced a flurry of activity and battles everywhere. In the middle of the mayhem, some Races would declare peace with the Alterians (despite their losses etc etc ...) and promptly declare war again two or three turns later. Some of them 'got the bug' and had a go with each other at the same time, masochists ....   

In the middle of all that (it got pretty hectic, the busiest I seen it, kinda fun in a way....) the game repeated about every six or seven turns that "...... Alterians have become too powerful and at a secret meeting all decided war had to be declared". Its still going on as I type, dont know what is triggering these repeated "secret meetings" but they are not necessary in that frequency - maybe a balancing bye product of the AIs continually declaring peace ? Dont know, a guess. They are slowly been worn down, another 20 turns or so and they will be 'normal' and doubtless we will go back to the normal hatred of each other ....   

I never declared war as the Alterians declared on me first as a result of "...... and we have decided after 100 years observing you its time to destroy you" - quick decisive thinkers these guys   . Very shortly after they did that the mayhem described above began

The events were neat, activity is good and a nice idea, just seemed a little off balance having secret meetings every 6/7 turns with same outcome and continuous war/peace declarations by some AIs.

Probably "as coded" at present and not yet balanced, but whatever the reason, there it is for what its worth.

Regards
Zy
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Oh yes - one other thing, I had two CTDs during this lot - first CTDs for a long, long time during the Beta, they have been "Freezes" for the most part not CTDs - SmartException picked them up and they were mailed.

Regards
Zy
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Wow i would love to play a game where the galaxy is that unstable. I mean in some of my games there are periods of instability but i usually fix those pretty quickly by bribing races, but the secrent meeting event is only in the beat for DA right?
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I assume so, I have not seen it in 'standard' GalCiv2. It came up at Painful level Beta 1A Gigantic, seven opponents, I was a bit behind in that one, got meself in a small mess re economy early game, and was slowly sorting myself out when it hit me with that Event. It went on for over a game year.

I've only had a similar total mayhem one, once before, it was in standard GalCiv2 at Crippling level Gigantic nine opponents. All of a sudden all nine oppenents hit me with a war within 3 turns of each other - and up to that point I had been the model citizen, albeit my intentions were far from church like   . That one lasted literally the whole game, went on for four game years. As you indicate it was a fun one - these mayhem ones are different and can be quite a challenge, especially if over a protracted period.

They jerk you out of the 'routine' of the standard game flow with quite a bang - good fun....

Regards
Zy