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Presumably because it's easier to get your relationship up high enough. Might it be worth giving the loyalist/rebel factions different pacts as well so it's really advantageous to manage to get your opposite in another race as an ally which has lots of modifiers against you? [quote]
this is a good idea that has been brought up in at least on other tread...i would like to see different pacts between factions/races. Also, there should be a bonus (economic or diplomatic, possibly a military bonus if you have pacts with 3 AIs) if you have pacts with 2 AIs. The bonus would increase if you had pacts with 3 AIs and so on. This would not only make 4 vs. 4 or 5 vs. 5 games more interesting/worth it, but it would also give a better incentive to create alliances.
Thoughts???