FE Military Isolationist bug?

[LordMagus]

Hi all, asked a question about this before, but I moved my frontier outpost by loading previous save, because the borders were touching the FE.

Now i've built another one FAR away from them, but they're now declaring war on me for it... just wanted people's opinions on whether this was WAD. To me, it doesn't seem right, that's quite a distance away, and it's just a frontier outpost :/

 

[Harrowdown]

Is that your wormhole station on their border? It seems unlikely, but maybe that's what's upsetting them?

 

[aragonFTW]

yes, looks too close, just. The black empire looks dangerously close as the AI tries to keep about 2-3 systems clear from these FEs if they can.

 

[LordMagus]

Is that your wormhole station on their border

Deleting it had no effect.

yes, looks too close, just.

Well given that I got dealt a bad hand, and just trying to grab a few minerals, I find it pretty bs how that's considered border encroaching.
I potentially can't utilise ANY of those resources to my right, and there's heaps of empires to my left. Only potential option left is building wormhole stations around the black
empire to colonise planets above them and encircle them.

 

[thekaje]

It seems a little too sensitive to me in your case as well. It's interesting that you find that annoying, though, as I find the thorn-in-the-side nature of that FE in particular to be very interesting. Besides, all they're trying to do is destroy your outpost, so it's not game-ending nor does it even require a reload.

 

[krios41]

I have noticed this behavior with them too... the Xenopbhobe FE has declared 5 wars so far. i'd understand if it had awoken but it doesn't...

 

[LordMagus]

It's interesting that you find that annoying, though, as I find the thorn-in-the-side nature of that FE in particular to be very interesting.

Annoying because I'll potentially be quite stagnant in my expansion until 2270-2280 when I've unlocked battleship and fortress tech that allow me to build habitats.

 

[Bankipriel]

I've been attacked in two separate games now (in Utopia) by Military Isolationist FE for "Encroaching Border," when my border was in fact more than a full wormhole generator's distance away, which, if its WAD, is freaking crazy. So, based on your photo, I'd say that Frontier Outpost is definitely the reason for the war declaration. In my last game, I was easily twice that far away, and since it was 2204, I had to just surrender. Well, good luck if you decide to keep playing that game.

 

[LordMagus]

Probably won't, I can take suboptimal starts but this is pretty ridiculous. Have to start taking pictures of just how sensitive it is :/

 

[Bankipriel]

Yeah, I don't mind being hemmed in by a FE, but the MI's seem to be on an even greater hair trigger than I remember. Then again, I didn't really play during 1.4, so maybe they've been this twitchy for a while now.