I've been scratching my head recently regarding AI aggressiveness. Supposedly it was fixed a little more with the last patch but I find myself coming out of a game with the same experience as before. I intended to come onto the forums querying this, but it seems that after reading a few other threads, the AI is indeed aggressive towards human players.
But I'm still gonna ask anyway because I haven't experienced it.
My experience with virtually every game of Stellaris so far is that the AI always seems very held back when it comes to attacking me. I usually play Stellaris fairly casually and often while working on something in the background, so the AI is often able to easily overtake me in strength, at least early on.
But I can count on one hand the number of times AI has actually declared war on me with no provocation (ie. insults or a lead on from a previous war started by me). And certainly, no AI has ever actually beaten me or taken me out of a game. This is over every previous game.
I find this weird because on so many occasions I've had a grumpy, very powerful neighbor next to me who by all logic should be marching his armies through my streets, but doesn't, at all.
I don't know about you but this severely takes away from the fun of the game when you realize nobody else truly poses a threat to you. Especially playing a "peaceful" empire with no intention of declaring aggressive wars, you find yourself doing an awful lot of nothing.
So question- has anybody else had AI actively go after them without provocation? Has anybody actually been handed defeat from an AI declared war? I play with high aggressiveness but normal difficulty, because it's painfully obvious the AI gets huge buffs on higher difficulties.
But I'm still gonna ask anyway because I haven't experienced it.
My experience with virtually every game of Stellaris so far is that the AI always seems very held back when it comes to attacking me. I usually play Stellaris fairly casually and often while working on something in the background, so the AI is often able to easily overtake me in strength, at least early on.
But I can count on one hand the number of times AI has actually declared war on me with no provocation (ie. insults or a lead on from a previous war started by me). And certainly, no AI has ever actually beaten me or taken me out of a game. This is over every previous game.
I find this weird because on so many occasions I've had a grumpy, very powerful neighbor next to me who by all logic should be marching his armies through my streets, but doesn't, at all.
I don't know about you but this severely takes away from the fun of the game when you realize nobody else truly poses a threat to you. Especially playing a "peaceful" empire with no intention of declaring aggressive wars, you find yourself doing an awful lot of nothing.
So question- has anybody else had AI actively go after them without provocation? Has anybody actually been handed defeat from an AI declared war? I play with high aggressiveness but normal difficulty, because it's painfully obvious the AI gets huge buffs on higher difficulties.
. Btw, early on, don't get cocky with the equivalent fleet power. You might simply have tech advantage (which is not worth a lot in the early game) and the actual different in fleet power could be around 500 ish.
