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I'm not asking about which strategy I should go with, I'm just wondering what causes an empire to win or lose.
I just won a 1v1, however I don't know what causes the game to declare a victor or loser. When I won, the other empire still had military ships and two asteroid colonies (one of which was its homeworld).
Any response would be appreciated.
If you're not involved in any alliances, two ways: no hostile colonies remain or your enemies have surrendered.
If you are involved in an alliance, either your enemies surrender or there are no players hostile towards any member of your alliance.
It's the AI surrendering. I've found the AI tends to surrender when it has no capital ships and has lost its homeworld, but that's a general observation and not the rule. I've had AI's sitting on a couple of fringe asteroids the entire game because it still has a level 1 capital ship prowling around somewhere, and another time I saw an AI surrender even though it still controlled seven planets after I killed its last capital ship and captured its homeworld. That said, I had a weird case just last night where the final straw that caused the AI to surrender was losing a dead asteroid. Go figure. Anyways, I've never seen the AI surrender when it still has fight, so I wouldn't give it too much thought.
AI behaviour has changed somewhat with 1.1, but they usually surrender when you beat them around pretty hard or eradicate any remnants of their fleet (which usually coincides with them having 3 or fewer planets remaining).
I've seen AI's continue to fight even after I've burned their HW and its last capital ship: it just simply relocates its capital and builds another capital ship factory.
Oh, and ever notice with unlocked teams that after an allied victory your computer allies suddenly cut off all relations and turn against you? I've had an AI actually stick to the alliance after everyone else was ground to dust (looking back, I had a ridiculously larger fleet than it did... maybe 2x to 3x the supply... so maybe that played a role).
There is a rule in Sins - you must always have at least one enemy faction. So with the teams unlocked, it forces the AI to break the alliance vs ending the game
I tend to play SP on 4x speed. Lately I foudn the AI seems to give up suddenly when I'm near to finishing it. I wish there was a bit more warning to this, though at 4x speed I would probably miss it.
Never happened to see the AI surrender, even if i had a 2.3k supply fleet marching on his bones it just keeps moving his homeworld until i destroy every single colony. It may have something to do with colony ships/caps tho.
Last time he surrendered i just hit keep playing, he still had colony ships and he had 3 planets colonized. Maybe he ran out of money to get the homewolrd upgrade.
Or he was too lazy to play 
Seriously, those AI's are bit boring.
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