Some basic questions about ethics choice.

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I was wondering a few things about the choice of alignment when playing the game.

I am playing as the Korx and wanted to be neutral, so i get like 5 morl choices during the colony phase, I pick the GOOD decision for each one. Later i research xeno ethics and i was STILL leaning evil and had to pay the 2500 to go neutral. I would have been better off picking the evil choices and then paying to be neutral. So, what does it take to change the natural alignment of a race?

Secondly, certain things in the game affect your relationship with "other" good, neutral or evil races. Do these deal with the way those races are "leaning" or do thety have to actually reseach Xeno Ethics and pick their alignment? Because i very seldomly (if ever) see an AI doing that. Maybe my games dont last long enough buit it seems that he AI does not put a priority on it.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Yeah, I've never seen an AI pick Xeno Ethics either. It's very odd. It also locks off access to those neat techs on AIs.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
To let you know, ethics in this game is broken, though the devs might argue otherwise. So if you see something weird with the ethics, you shouldn't be surprised. One such example is how "good" is usually punished by random event, while "evil" ussually ends up with the full benefits.
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Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Something I've wondered about... do the AI's get random ethics choice events during colonization, like the player does? I assume they would, so the game remains symmetrical (no special advantage for either player or AI). But there's no way to tell, since it would happen behind the scenes in the code.

I wouldn't go so far as saying the ethics system is broken. Maybe the devs just intended the Good path to be a more painful one. Not everything in a game has to be symmetrical. There are some weird aspects though, like someone mentioned in another thread that moving towards Good happens more slowly than the opposite direction, so it's harder to use the ethical choices that way if you don't start out Good to begin with. That doesn't sound right.