Ascension Victory question

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My first ToA game is done, and I am very happy with the expansion.  I did notice a couple of very small bugs, mostly concerning GNN construction reports, but nothing that took away from the game.

I played as the Terrans, on a large map set to challenging.  I got three Ascension crystals fairly early, and decided to try out the new victory.  Shortly after, the Thalans declared war on me, citing my interest in the crystals, and what had been a pretty laid back game went all to...well, wherever bad Drengi go.  I got kicked around by the Thalans and Altarians for a bit, made peace, got everyone else to attack the Thalans, resumed the war, got pretty things, ect. ect. 

Long story short, about 100 weeks from Ascension Victory I had managed to create a scrappy little armada that just might stand up to the concentrated attack from the remaining civs that I knew was coming.  By 75 weeks I was feeling pretty good about things.  Fifty weeks til victory I was getting antsy.   Week 25 came and went, and nothing.  I wasn't the most powerful civ, and most everyone was pretty peeved that I was doing the whole AV thing, but no attack came.

I won.  Great game, great new stuff, but just a little disappointed at the end.

So questions:  Was it that I was only on challenging difficulty?  Do AI civs know your progress on this victory type? 

Thanks!
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Do AI civs know your progress on this victory type?


They do, and the only thing that will annoy the AI more is calling a Drengin's mother a vegetarian.
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Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
True, but on the other hand going for an ascension victory will only affect foreign relations with - (1 crystal) or -- (2 or more crystals) so it doesn't mean automatically that all AI's will declare war on you.
Allies don't even seem to mind it at all.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Aye, I think it's too easy to placate the AIs in the game.

A little bit of diplomacy, a trade route, maybe the occasional treaty, and you'll never be bothered by an AI for the rest of the game.

Negatives should be FAR more 'powerful' than positive aspects. Honestly if my neighbor has a massive military building up on my border and has just wiped out another civilization, I don't really give a crap about my trade agreements at that point...
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Do you think that if I had played out the same scenario on a higher difficulty setting the AI would have attacked me towards the end?
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
It might have kept attacking you early on instead of accepting a peace deal.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
True, but on the other hand going for an ascension victory will only affect foreign relations with - (1 crystal) or -- (2 or more crystals)


Really? Is that all? Whenever I get that second crystal, the AI goes ape. But then again, most of what I do really annoys the AI. :)