Nope. But then I have never played till the yr 2235.

It can get crazy in the other direction too: just saw a civ declare war on four minor races and a major simultaneously earlier today. Butterfly effect or something....

Weird, my games always feature an effect that has the weakest power of the moment being entirely destroyed.

That's what uasually happens to me. It give me a chance to piggy back on other peoples war and steal lots of planets from a weakened civ aka the Drengin is this game about 20 planets taken in lightening invasions by me. I really dont want to have to end this in alliance victory, but allying with every civ except for one and then destroying them systematicaly is going to be annoying. Oh well, to war!

I'm guessing alliance victory is off, so you just ally with everyone, then declare war one at a time. A races allies won't attack you if you are already allied witht hem, so just lick them off one by one!

Wow, that's a lot of ships....

Have fun!

Lol, that is a truly frightening number of ships in that screen shot.

I had a game on painful setting where the remaining AI's allied together and in the end I decided to just do a technology victory and wrap it up that way. They attacked me towards the end but it was too late to stop me. =-).

The whole darn galaxy is going peaceful on me

Don't just sit there! Exterminate them while you have the chance!!

I've had something like this happen to me. But my galaxy looked something like two seperate organizations of alliances. On the left, Terran, Altarian, Torian etc. Right, Drengin, Yor, Arcean, etc. Something like that. It's peaceful for some months or so, until an assassination event comes along. Everyone, and I truly mean everyone, got into a war or two.

A glorious game that left me giddy for days.

Anyway, have fun with your current galaxy. Wading through those hundred of Vengence ships!

The game I'm playing now on maso has the same situation. Of course, out of the 9 opponents I started with, only 4 are left. The fact that you have 8 opponents left is just nuts! I'm currently building influence starbases to take over systems without a war, but I didn't know that allying with the other races would prevent them from joining in. Thank you Feud, and I forsee a quick victory for myself tonight!

The Good Altarian and Iconian aligned with Evil Korx. Strange. Have never had to deal with this before. Thankfully.

nearly the entire map is filled up with those weak "vengance" ships.

Has anyone tried to play through after this surreal ships-from-the-aether event? I haven't tried to process a turn since it happened in my current game, but I'm already curious about whether those swarms of toothless gnats can really do anything besides pick off noncombat ships.

Do they fleet up? Do they try things like waves of fleets to take down a starbase or real combat fleet?

I still haven't tried to process a turn since the event (busy cleaning up stupid little ships and trying to spank the Terrans hard enough that they might listen to peace offer next turn).

Cevohcam, when you saw that behavior in the past games, were the Vengance ships fantastically weaker than all your combat ships and well-established bases?

In my current game, the Vengance gnats have a 2 in guns and no defenses. I finished the combat parts of the tech tree long ago (game date is 22 Nov 2237) and have all 4 of the military resources on my map fully mined and defended, so I can't see how they might bother me other than breaking the game thru CPU probs or some amazing success thru war-of-attrition.

p.p.s. The Leader Assisinated plus Swarm of Vengance event also seems to put ships "in" uninhabitable planets, stars *and* ONE OF MY COLONIES. Any of you "realists" also wondering how this event could be fixed or if it should be eliminated?