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I'm a fairly new player, just purchased the Trinity version. While I was playing for the first time on Diplomacy on a large map setting with 6 normal difficulty AI players I noticed that some factions just end up stopping out of the blue. I was fighting one faction and then he just stops. He had 3 planets with ships but he was defeated? Then 2 factions become defeated as well. I was losing badly might I add and it was only me and him in the star system. So is this norma