I've just lost a Noble game to the AI (Space Race victory). I'm cursing myself roundly for idiocy because the AI had five turns left on his last SS part before I realised the reason my spies couldn't sabotage his SS part production wasn't that Firaxis made it impossible to sabotage SS production but that I actually had to pay to sabotage things. That's irritating, and embarrassing, but entirely my fault.
The plan I had before realising that was to get Montezuma to attack Washington (who was building the SS). He wouldn't do it without me being at war as well, so eventually I got desperate and went to declare war... only to find that Washington wouldn't talk to me. He didn't hate me or anything, he just wouldn't talk to me. And consequently, I couldn't declare war - I was on a different continent with a miserly navy in the wrong part of the map, and an out-of-date, too-small army against Washington's Jet Fighters and Mech. Inf. Anyway, had I had time I could have moved something over there to sneak attack him, but does anyone else find it more than slightly odd that the AI sticking its fingers in its ears singing "La la la I'm not listening la la la!" at the top of its voice somehow prevents you being able to declare war?
I did get one shot at sabotaging that last SS part, but my spy got caught and I didn't have enough time to accumulate enough money to try again. Pity - my own SS was only 20 or so turns from completion (had to get the last couple of techs), and I was about five turns from finishing Manhatten Project, which would likely have evened the odds for my troops trying to get in to stop production.
The plan I had before realising that was to get Montezuma to attack Washington (who was building the SS). He wouldn't do it without me being at war as well, so eventually I got desperate and went to declare war... only to find that Washington wouldn't talk to me. He didn't hate me or anything, he just wouldn't talk to me. And consequently, I couldn't declare war - I was on a different continent with a miserly navy in the wrong part of the map, and an out-of-date, too-small army against Washington's Jet Fighters and Mech. Inf. Anyway, had I had time I could have moved something over there to sneak attack him, but does anyone else find it more than slightly odd that the AI sticking its fingers in its ears singing "La la la I'm not listening la la la!" at the top of its voice somehow prevents you being able to declare war?
I did get one shot at sabotaging that last SS part, but my spy got caught and I didn't have enough time to accumulate enough money to try again. Pity - my own SS was only 20 or so turns from completion (had to get the last couple of techs), and I was about five turns from finishing Manhatten Project, which would likely have evened the odds for my troops trying to get in to stop production.
