What is the best AI agressiveness to paly at?

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Pretty simple question. I want to start a new game and I wanted to get some opinions on what the best aggressive lever to play at is.

I want decent amount of wars in my game, to the point where an empire declaring war could usually happen (within reason of course) but I don't want things to get to crazy, with wars happening at the drop of a hat.

Thoughts?
 

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I have no idea, I personally play with the highest aggression because I like the idea that the galaxy is a little more dynamic/war filled.
 
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I find that on normal you get almost no wars at all. Hostile xenophobe militarist rivals will just sit there and watch you colonise the entire galaxy.

The ai is reluctant to act unless they have a sizable edge. I have rarely had issue with even multiple member federation as there isn't a coalition mechanic
 
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I had the problem with aggressive, that the AI is grinding their fleets away
... so the galaxy always has some wars going on
... the result was, that late game, all normal AI, had only small fleets and hate each other :)