Is this supposed to happen?

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Hello,

I was playing a medium sized galaxy on beginner settings for a fair number of turns without any civilizations at war until one turn, i got a pop up saying that one of the terran ceo's of a large corporation had been assassinated and as a result, the terrans declared war on my civilization.

All that makes sense, what seems a bit odd is that almost immediately every civilization in the galaxy popped up to say that they had been paid to declare war on each other, korath clan on the torians, torians on the krynn, krynn on dratha, dratha on yor, etc etc, every civ under the sun said they had been paid to declare war on some random civilization.

i understand the terrans attacking my civ as the random event stated that, but why would every civ suddenly turn on each other in such an odd way as a result? the whole galaxy was at war in a seemingly completely random nature, all saying they had been paid to think of "X" civilization as their enemy.

Is that normal game mechanics? why would terra attacking my civ cause toria to attack yor? and all other weird combinations? i dont recall any of them being allies.

Thanking you for any answers or guesses received. :)
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You may be seeing patterns where there is none. Random events do occur as natural course for the game and these are random events. This may simply be a series of random events all occuring. Also, pay attention to who is attacking whom. It may be that one Civilization attacked another that had an alliance, who then retaliated and attacked a civilization that had a different alliance and it all dazy-chained.

There may also be a random pre-set Mega-event that causes every civilization to attack someone else. Not sure on that one, but I wouldn't put it past the devs to make that.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thanks for the answer spyder, i'm still a bit confused because i was not allied to anyone when the terrans declared war on me, and immediately after they did every civilization declared war on a random enemy, not on me.

They all said that they had been paid to do it, toria said they had been paid to declare war on the krynn, and every other civ said they had been paid to declare war on someone, it's almost as if terra's war declaration on me broke the AI and sent everyone after each other for no apparent reason, terra was the only civ i was at war with and 10 turns or so after their declaration i made peace with them, while the whole galaxy was still at random war with itself.

there is one thing nagging me though, i had one trade route allocated to each of the playing civs, could it be that terra's war declaration on me made them angry because it might have affected their trade?

But in that case they should have declared war on terra, not randomly on each other, hmmm, confusing. :(
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
If you ever see civs saying they have been paid to declare war it's the Drath super ability. They can manipulate other civs to fight one another. As for the assassination, well thats just a random event.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Although *that* would be a cool feature - "Diplomatic Tension", where things can be really hard, or really easy to move to war settings. Maybe a War breaks out over a random event, maybe it doesn't , or maybe (Like WWI) what should be a minor event becomes an intergalactic conflagration.

Jonnan
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah i see, it seems that the Drath must have taken the signal of terra's war declaration on me to start everyone fighting each other, not sure why they needed that cue to do it, maybe they thought it would help them out.

And they seemed all peaceful and friendly too, i was worried about the korath, yor and korx as their alignment was leaning evil, yet it seems a neutral civ started all the chaos.

If i try to get a civ to attack another one they simply won't do it even though i offered a lot, the drath must have paid a fortune to get everyone fighting like that. :)
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Ah i see, it seems that the Drath must have taken the signal of terra's war declaration on me to start everyone fighting each other, not sure why they needed that cue to do it, maybe they thought it would help them out.And they seemed all peaceful and friendly too, i was worried about the korath, yor and korx as their alignment was leaning evil, yet it seems a neutral civ started all the chaos.If i try to get a civ to attack another one they simply won't do it even though i offered a lot, the drath must have paid a fortune to get everyone fighting like that.



Or could it be possible that the person who performed the Assassination that caused the Terrans to attack you was a Drath agent? Just saying.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Or could it be possible that the person who performed the Assassination that caused the Terrans to attack you was a Drath agent? Just saying.


Is the game that deep? i have no idea. sadly i just pushed "main menu" by accident and lost everything without saving. I'l keep a watch out for those pesky Drath in my next game, thanks for the help guys much appreciated. :)



Reply #8 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's not a Drath agent that did that no. That's just a random event that can be triggered by galactic peace.

The Drath (but other civilizations aswell) have a hand at paying people to fight wars. Their super ability allows them to do this at a much lower price than other civilizations would have to pay, however, other civilizations sometimes resort to this tactic aswell. It is perfectly feasible that multiple AI decided to offer money to get a war started between rivals.

As for the clicking main menu -> if I recall correctly, there's a "Continue Game" option, but of course, this only works if you didn't start a new game in the meanwhile. Might want to activate auto save for every x turns, at least you'll have some save of the game then, in case you forget. (They do tend to overwrite eachother though, so you have to remember to get back to games you were playing...)
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Reply #10 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It's not a Drath agent that did that no. That's just a random event that can be triggered by galactic peace....)


Yes. The Assassination is a random event that can happen even if the Drath aren't in game. I was simply being creative and drawing an imaginary line of supposition. Sorry.

Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Actually it seems that this very event is how World War I got started. Were there any alliances before the random event?