Not actually sure if this is an exploit or not, since it seems like perfectly fair gameplay - but I think the AI is quite susceptible to it.
1) Locate resources that someone is mining that you don't want to risk war with.
2) Find or encourage someone else to go to war with that race
3) Build a constructor and a few warships
4) Move the constructor and warships beside the resource
5) Sell the other race the warships
6) They will destory the mining base, and now you are free to mine it yourself.
Not only do you get the resource without war, but you get to charge someone for the priviledge of destroying it for you!!
Has anyone seen the AI do this to them? I would be pretty fracking impressed if it did.
Should you receive diplomatic relation hits when you sell warships to somenone's enemy? Its insanely fun, but it seems strange that I could still sell weapons to someone's worst enemy and maintain cuddly relations. On the other hand IF the AI can do the same thing then that is good enough.
Comments?
Dano
