[Bug] Allied AI wants to take my worlds, but poor guy, he can't.

from Sins Forums

I'm playing on a huge map a 4vs4 game with 7 other AIs, and one them (Hand of Ilus, Advent), keeps saying things like: You can say goodbye to [insert planet name here]!!. The thing is, that AI is my ally, and therefore he never attacks my worlds, obviously. It's no major bug, but it's pretty annoying to constantly think one computer AI is about to take one of your worlds.

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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top

I used to play with a jerk like that.  ;)

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

I get the same thing all the time since 1.11 and it can get annoying when you have to zoom out of a battle and go check what the heck is going on at that world. It's always confusing when it's empty with the tumble weeds rolling by at said planet. Although on a lighter side, you get a nice sigh of relief when you realize it actually isn't happening.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

That happened to me once.   I didn't catch who actually said it.  I figured it was somebody that was GOING to attack, but then decided that they shouldn't because I had a HUGE fleet that I was busy way-pointing through that gravity well to go someplace I cared about (like, i figured that because I was busy dealing with a fight, he 'knew' when I scheduled for a capital ship and fleet to move through the planet and decided to back off)

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

I've noticed this behaviour before 1.1 too. It has happened to me only when there are allied and enemy ships (even a scout frigate) on the grav well. As a solution, only listen to the "Hostile forces are approaching/have arrived .." message, the AI doesn't really say anything worthwhile anyway.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah, I've seen that happen even before 1.1. The AI decides that a world is what it wants to attack. So it sends the taunt message, gets there, and then realizes it's a friendly world and leaves.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

puts the attack taunting all the way back to the stone-age  rofl 

IMA ATTACK THAT PLANET

oh wait, it's one of my allies's ...

 

THEN IMA ATTACK THAT PLANET

oh wait that's one of my allies's to...

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

I've had that happen as well.  As a matter of fact this same friendly AI who kept threatening me also never researched long range jumps in a huge 4 star system game.  I had to fight the rest of the galaxy alone because my ai said that he didn't have the technology to get to the locations I wanted him to attack.  Basically his massive fleet kicked it at my home planet but continued to threaten me.  It was funny.