Is this normal: AI kills my colony ships while we are at friendly terms in diplomacy |
Very early in a game, I encountered an AI and we made a trade agreement and a few other agreements (can't recall what), but no alliance. He then decided to enter my systems and hide in the warp points and killed every ship moving though them. Once I sent in my fleet to protect my colony ships, he declared war on me because I attacked him, but it appears to be ok for him to enter my systems and take out my defenceless ships.
Read the Fine Print
Black root,
Be very careful to read "the fine print" of those deals the AI's offer you. I found that you have to be very careful to scroll down to see all aspects of an AI offer. Many times they offer "poison pills" in their offers that are one-sided deals that prevent you from doing things while allowing them to do them.
Omnius
I second the above
Whatever the faults the AI may have it is a past master at coming up with treaties which can royally screw you if you don’t pay attention. Ok so you can break them but this causes its own problems.
There are also several variants on the non aggression treaty which include things called non aggression treaties but which have no such clauses in them I have had a "friendly" AI mine all the warp points it could reach in my empire and not give me the codes to pass them safely before now
Strangers in the night
As others have said, the fine print is very important. If you don't have the right agreement and your ships wander into each other, there will be assplosions
Kerry-
"...I say we must move forward, not backward, upward, but forward, and always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!"
-Kodos for President
Non-Agression Provision?
Do you have any non-aggression provisions with them?
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