Always a yes for improving AI. Right now at the moment the AI for me in all my games are passive. I play on Endless too.

Hold on. While I'm not defending the AI, the Riftborn, Cravers, Lumeris and UE in my serious games have not been passive.

Slashman wrote:

Hold on. While I'm not defending the AI, the Riftborn, Cravers, Lumeris and UE in my serious games have not been passive.

Hmm dunno. For me lately, all my games I haven't been in any threat.

Are they at war with other people?

Ditto on the Lumeris and Sophons being aggressive. Every game they use tons of core crackers

I'm also always for improved AI, but I don't think passivity is a problem. I haven't had a game in a long time where someone hasn't declared war on me. Last game I had both Lumeris and Hissho declare war within the first 40 turns. They were eventually turned into new patriots of the empire, but there was a good amount of system swapping for a while.

Have you tried tweaking your settings? AI's will get aggressive if you are in the way of their expansion plans, so more systems and larger galaxies with more space will often result in more passive games.

Well the AI moving against the player in the late game is something that will never get fixed because it isn't, according the devs, a bug. That's also for them not pursuing victory conditions and moving against the player when they pursue victory condtions.

I've tried showing them that Age of Empires uses this logic without hurting the game but no luck.

The resource thing is something they have been fiddling with for a while.

Slashman wrote:

Well the AI moving against the player in the late game is something that will never get fixed because it isn't, according the devs, a bug. That's also for them not pursuing victory conditions and moving against the player when they pursue victory condtions.

I've tried showing them that Age of Empires uses this logic without hurting the game but no luck.

The resource thing is something they have been fiddling with for a while.

That makes no sense at all.The end game is a boring slog that it usually just pressing the turn button a 100 times.I personally find the victory condition boring in general and would prefer a end game event with the lost or Endless coming back.

Just finished another Endless campaign with vodayni. Still some of the same issues with the AI.  It sends a few ships at a time after you beat one big fleet. I pretty much used the same cards over and over. The cravers where my neighbors too and I was leeching them. All they did was tell me to stop.  End game I just core cracked everything in sight.  Being in alliance isn't that fun either. I would be winning and then my ally would call a truce.  Sometimes an AI would give me a choice to send him tribute and then when I would send him tribute. The voice over would be hostile still. Like I didn't pay him.  Not sure if this is intended.

Maybe it is easier to force a human player to play more broad and don t make it so easy to concentrate on one victory condition than have the AI do the latter? I introduced the idea to implement different optional victory conditions or map campaigns like "king of the hill" etc. to the game. It does not solve AI passivity itself, but maybe it could lead to more challenging games. What do you guys think about that?

Link to the idea: https://www.games2gether.com/endless-space-2/ideas/2205-victory-conditions-galaxy-campaigns