Victory conditions

Has anybody else ever had this happen to them?

when playing a game everything can be going good and then all of a sudden you loose and the Diplomatic Defeat screen comes up for seemingly no reason.

Does anybody know where i could find a list of all of the victory conditions because im not entirely sure what they are.

for example im not sure if to get a military victory you need to destroy the enemy homeworld or all of their planets

any help would be much appreciated

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ive also heard people say that you can stay in a game if you dont have any planets as long as you have a colony ship could anybody shed some light on this?

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GoaFan77

Join Date 10/2008

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Yeah the diplomatic victory can sneak up on you, its kind of like a wonder victory in other games except with diplomatic points from research and envoys instead of structures. To win militarily you need to be the last player standing, with players being eliminated by losing all of their planets (though the AI may surrender before that).

Edit: If the Diplomatic victory bothers you, you can disable it in the map/pregame options.

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Diplomatic Victory occurs when one player has accumulated enough Diplomacy Points (the amount is determined by the number of players in the game - the more players there are, the higher the required DP is). You can check each player's DP and the rate at which they are gaining/losing them at the Diplomacy screen. Positive relationships increase the rate of gain, negatives increase the rate of loss.

The game actually does give you warnings as to whether a player is approaching a Diplomatic Victory (including yourself), but it doesn't have an audio cue and only consists of the Diplomacy Menu button at the top flashing.

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okay but in the game i was playing it was a 1 v 1 game and my enemy didnt have any envoys or anything like that so how did they get enough diplomacy points to win???

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