Culture hate

[Amiri]

I've been playing for a while and I've had the chance to notice that some A.I. tend to attack you because of who you are. At the risk of sounding like a noob, I'll explain. Sorry if this has been done before

I like to play as Zulu alot and i often don't pick my AI civ's I leave it on Random. One thing that always happens is that the Persians are always there and the persians will attack me if close enough.
This is when I was Zulu. Another favorite of mine is Babylon. Again Persia is always there and they always strike when it's best for them.
Just to test to make sure that it wasn't just the persians I have been America, France,Japan all with persia on and they were nice and I had no trouble out of them.
To make a long story short I have been Persia and Zulu and Babylon and I've noticed the cirlce of hate towards each other. Have other people noticed this? And can anyone tell me what other rivals are out there?

 

[Helton]

hmm, I've never noticed that, but I do know that certain Civs have higher aggression levels than others.

 

[Symphony D.]

I like to play as Zulu alot and i often don't pick my AI civ's I leave it on Random. One thing that always happens is that the Persians are always there and the persians will attack me if close enough.
This is when I was Zulu. Another favorite of mine is Babylon. Again Persia is always there and they always strike when it's best for them.

Persia has an Aggression Level of 4, meaning they're usually more hostile. Zulu and Babylon are also both in Persia's culture group (Middle-Eastern), so if you have Culturally Linked starting locations you'll probably pop up near them if they're included. The fact that you're in the same culture should make them friendlier, however, this is probably overridden by the fact you're one of their nearest targets...

 

[mac224]

It seems that not only does each civ have an aggression level but each game is generated with a base aggression level. Maybe this is a known feature? Some games even the most warlike civs treat everyone else with respect. In other games the most peaceful civs rampage along with the worst of them.

In one recent game (Regent, Romans, medium sizse, random world) I was centrally placed on a large continent with Egypt, Russia, Japan, Germany, England, and France. I first got in a war with Egypt to my east, because they were on a peninsula and I was in their only path of expansion. I had already fought a skirmish with Japan to the west that had caused the destruction of two towns (one of theirs and one of mine) and the Egyptians got the Japanese to attack me again. While fighting off those two, The Germans to the South declared war on me. Then the Russians which I barely had any contact with at all. I was sure Egypt was paying them off to do so, but being already strapped for cash I was helpless to combat their political clout. Within a couple of turns every single known civ was at war with me. Feeding frenzy! Let's all take a chunk out of the carcass of the Roman Empire! I lasted about 10 more turns before being utterly crushed. I'd never been redlined by all the civs at once before. That's when I developed my "game-level base aggression" theory. At least, it's some salve to my ego to think it exists.

mac