No attempted invasion of Earth as late as 2044
>!Normal mode (only my 3rd time playing, first decent run so far), around 2034-2035 I think the alien admin formed in Brazil, (I helped the academy take control of China and India from the servants early on) and we swiftly invaded using EU and US armies to destroy the admin.!<
>!Since then the servants haven't done so much as build a facility, much less form another admin, I think I might have lobotomized them. I was told the aliens try to build assault carriers with an escort fleet from 2030-2035 but despite having about 3 motherships defending the Kuiper belt I've not seen any carriers.!<
>!Right now I've taken Jupiter and Saturn, establishing a fleet at both, but even long before I began my assault on Jupiter the aliens were very docile, not even trying to attack Earth or Mars when I left them undefended. Was there a recent change to how the aliens act? Earlier in the run whenever their hate meter filled up they would immediately launch a large retribution strike, but now its been full for a while and while they wont launch any invasion fleets, they seem perfectly content to launch small raiding fleets to the core that get killed upon arrival.!<
>!Just seems weird how they don't wanna devote a combined fleet to attack me, but are fine with sending pitifully weak fleets to annoy me. I was pretty aggressive with them all game, killing every survey ship and constantly harassing the servants, I guess I may have stunted their progress a bit, but for a good deal of time they had full hate against me and fleets that could have devastated me and they just... refused to take any action.!<
>!Is there some threat assessment metric that makes the aliens unwilling to attack me? Are the aliens hardcoded to be wary of humans because they don't know much about us? As in despite being stronger than me mid game their code stopped them from attacking me out of caution or smth?!<