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Sometimes getting better range tech is bad

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September 18th, 2015, 16:15
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Has anyone else come to this conclusion?

If you are typically an early-game turtler like me, you like to avoid all AI contact at all costs. No AI contact = no possibility for early war. Sure, they will send scouts and the occasional colony ship, but no fleets. You can build factories and research to your heart's content while the AIs get bogged down battling each other. There's nothing better I love than to see a map with a big void and with hostile planets between me and where the AIs must be.

In these cases, I sometimes actively avoid researching range tech, especially if I can colonize several planets with only range 4 or 5. After that, I will focus on engines in the propulsion tree, or if range tech is the only thing that comes up, I will dial-down the propulsion research to a bare trickle until I feel like all of my planets are close to mature and ready to defend themselves.

Also, I feel like trade is often not worth it. By the time the income is ripening, the AI go and declare war, meaning it has only cost me money in the interim

Does anyone else feel the same way?
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September 18th, 2015, 23:17
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(September 18th, 2015, 17:02)thrawn2 Wrote: If the AI doesn't have the range to get to you then what's the problem? I suppose they can steal it from you but that's not very likely. On the other hand you can trade, exchange tech or steal from them and keep an eye on their progress - all good things.

Oh, whoops, of course! Good point.

One potential problem, though, is that, let's say that one AI already has the ability to reach you. Let's say you have peaceful relations with them.

Then let's say there's a second AI. If you make contact with that second AI, even if they can't reach you with their ships, they can declare war on you and drag the closer neighbor into a war against you if they have an alliance with that closer AI.

That is...unless AIs won't declare war if they can't reach you with their ships. Then that would change everything.

You did list a lot of advantages to having contact, though, so I am reconsidering....
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