AngryMarine

I'm sorry if my first post was misleading however I figured everyone understood that there are multiple factors that convince the AI to attack you. Being the weakest link plays a part in that role however if you simply ignore all their missions they will come for you with a vengeance also. Forming an alliance early with one or more AI early in the game will keep the heat off of you. Good diplomacy choices combined with a strong fleet will easily prevent the 'gang up' result. I found this out

Every game I have played I ensure rapid expansion and power. Looking at this screen shot the AI is ganging up on the weakest link, which I KNOW it does. Every game I play with AI the AI will take out the weak player first and then fight the harder players. It is very easy to see that you are the weak link at this point in the game. In my games the AI usually focuses on the weakest AI to gain territory easily. I think your right in that they are ganging up on you, but I don't think i

Here's the deal. The developers made changes to the overall game play to suite it to everyone. Too many players here complain of unbalancing issues when the fact of the matter is simple. YOU need to change your strategy and not use your OLD strategy. In the current game setup (v1.03) the reality is the Vasari can pump out 10 Assailants before the TEC can even build Trade Ports AND LRMs. That's is a very important issue since the TEC has little hope of fending off Assailants with COBALTS! I