Powerful AI

[4eyes]

Hello everyone,

I'm new to the game. I've played 30 hours. Here's my question:

I'm playing and learning with AI. I haven't moved to the online part yet. Before starting the game, I make the AI's power low. But in the last game I played, after I developed and established a base in the stars, I saw that the warship damage of an AI neighboring me was 450k. How is this possible? Moreover, even though I did not exhibit any behavior that could be considered a threat to him, he marked me as his enemy.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Fallen Empire, you did something that triggered it. Possibly claiming a system adjacent to theirs if Fanatic Xenophobe, or colonizing a holy planet if Fanatic Spiritualist

[4eyes]

Originally posted by Elitewrecker PT:

Fallen Empire, you did something that triggered it. Possibly claiming a system adjacent to theirs if Fanatic Xenophobe, or colonizing a holy planet if Fanatic Spiritualist

I colonized a sacred planet. I think that's why.

[Ryika]

Originally posted by 4eyes:

I colonized a sacred planet. I think that's why.

Yeah, don't do that next time around. There's even an event when you survey the first holy world that warns you about it.

As long as you don't anger them, Fallen Empires are static and don't really do anything until the endgame.

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Yeah, Fallen Empires are "special" entities on the map that don't play by the normal rules. They start off with every technology in the game researched (5 or 10 levels of every endgame repeatable technology as well) and large premade fleets of special ship classes that are significantly better than "regular" Destroyers and Battleships. In exchange, they do not engage in normal diplomacy or expansion, instead sitting in the five or six systems they start with, occasionally giving gifts or tasks to empires they like, and not declaring any wars unless provoked. Xenophobe Fallen Empires will attack you if you build an Outpost in any system with a direct hyperlane connection to one of theirs, and Spiritualists will exact vengeance if anybody colonizes, terraforms, or destroys one of their consecrated Holy Worlds. They also do not build any new ships or fleets unless they first become an Awakened Empire, so any losses you do deal to them are permanent.