42% of the AIs in Balance Mod will surrender to you on turn one |
My friend discovered this. He asked 17 civilizations to surrender to him in the year 2401.5. He was in 14th place.
7 of 17 surrendered. He instantly had triple the resources of any other civilization.
If he had asked just one to surrender first, so he had a higher score, he could have gotten 9 of the 11 civs that were cooperative to surrender. But uncooperative ones will surrender too.
I tried it on my game in 2402.4. Five of ten surrendered. My score went from 5 million to 30 million and I gained 100 tech levels. My research generation went from 20,000 points to 200,000. I guess it pays to ask!
What's funny about this is you can barely get the computer to agree to taking a free ship from you. But surrendering? No problem.
Re: 42% of the AIs in Balance Mod will surrender to you on turn
Ha ha ha -- I'm just picturing Master General Jar-Nolath summoning together the top ministers of the Jraenar Imperium to consider their response to my surrender demand. "He has demanded that we respond to his ultimatum by midnight. The time for a decision is short. What say you, gentlemen?" "Umm... how about 'heads'?"
Kind of like the Isaac Asimov story where it turns out none of the generals trusted their master computer and they had made all the decisions by coin flip...
Re: 42% of the AIs in Balance Mod will surrender to you on turn
Oops!
It actually should be 50%.
I had accidentally left the surrender value as true by default, while designing all the conditions for surrender as converting the surrender value from false to true - such as the score condition etc. Anyway, if not in AI team mode or mega evil status, the AI would surrender by its random factor of 50%.
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