Reputation not being affected much?

[feelotraveller]

ORIGINAL: Shark7

Has anyone thought about modding the bias file before we start tinkering with reputation?

If you set the natural dislike biases between the races lower, they would be more inclined to go to war. [;)]

I would agree with that but first I would bump up the aggression slider in the setup. I would hazard a guess everyone's playing on 'normal' rather than 'chaos'.

[Shark7]

ORIGINAL: feelotraveller

ORIGINAL: Shark7

Has anyone thought about modding the bias file before we start tinkering with reputation?

If you set the natural dislike biases between the races lower, they would be more inclined to go to war. [;)]

I would agree with that but first I would bump up the aggression slider in the setup. I would hazard a guess everyone's playing on 'normal' rather than 'chaos'.

Most likely. With ROTS on chaos, there was constant war. It was beautiful man. [8D]

[Fideach]

I play on Chaos only now. Everyone else goes to war occasionally, but most leave me alone. Even while I had a small puny empire.

[Data]

Chaos alone is not enough, it depends on how the other game settings are chosen....it would be interesting to compare to see from where the differences may arise.

[RooksBailey]

I haven't tried chaos yet, but I have been playing unstable and the galaxy is still too peaceful for me.  On one hand, I like that fact that the AI doesn't pile on from day 1 as it often does with other games, but on the other hand I do find myself becoming bored in most games.  In my last few games, I had to be the troublemaker to get things going as minding my own business seemed to make my rep skyrocket even with completely different races. 

Based on what others have said, I think the rep system does need to be less forgiving.  Perhaps that is why everyone seems to become best friends with everyone else in most games.

[Bingeling]

I needed to go bug swatting in my game to find some action. In my two legends games I have been attacked quite early, and in neither of them attacked since that time. I suspect that the AI is careful if they think themselves weaker.

My problem is that I generally don't attack just to attack. I do border sweeps, and retaliate on attacks. When they don't happen, the game becomes stale. If I am lucky and someone offends me, I will attack, but the border system makes careless, annoying colony placement less likely.

[msnevil]

I had two empires "covet" my empire from the early start until around 2820 when I just gave up. (varying between moods angry to furious, always with your stuff occuies our territory or something like that.) This was on "Unstable" aggression. With two colonies right next to my colony. And one empired had a free trade treaty with me for svl years while being furiously mad at me. - 75 )

I had expanded to about 1\4th of a 15*15 700 system spiral galaxy. I was mutually allied to two empires who drew me into one "bug" war during this time. Which ended in two weeks. I could have easily won by just colony spamming the whole galaxy.

This game would be like star ship troopers. The "bugs" bombed the brazil town I can't spell- buanes aires?, anyway after bombing my planet. My AI controlled humans then invite them to the UN for tea and donuts. Then the shanti show up, blows up the moon, and our leaders gives them the keys to manhattan.

Reminds me of a saying about our fearless world leader, "there isn't a enemy he hasn't met that he doesn't like". While praising corperate Nationalism, and declaring war on the private sector. I hear he was also born in the suiken empire, and his world birth certificate is forged. [>:]