AI Fight to the death?

[WhiskeyGhost]

It's more or less hardcoded to be biased against the player. If your better off then them, they hate, you if your weaker, you make a nice target.....etc etc etc.

You might be able to get a ceasefire if your not too powerful, and have a good reputation, and somehow have kept good terms with the target and so on and so forth. It's mostly a giant hassle just to get a defeated enemy to submit or even ceasefire.

[Duke Bart]

Ahh ic, well thats a huge pain since sometimes i just dont want to deal with another front.

Update on my war with spain tho, i decided to just leave them and hope they sit quiet, they didnt so i just called off all of my western and northern campaigns ( Building up against the HRE and that rich bastard milan, leaving england to rot since i captured london and york, leaving them with caen nd caevernon so im assuming they will go broke soon)

So yeah, that whole peninsula belongs to me, and a well placed fleet keeps the moors secluded. I guess thats what they get for their crap.

[Jason X]

bart - they won't easily accept a ceasefire if your relations are rubbish - or if your reputation is bad.

also, it's much harder to get peace with a shadow faction (not sure if spain is shadow to france or not)

[PBI]

The AI doesn't seem to factor it's own survival in at all when making diplomatic decisions. It would be nice if the AI were a bit more pragmatic, i.e. less likely to take an attack as personal insult and decide to fight to the death rather than ever deal with you again, more likely to accept when further resistance is futile.

[Mek Simmur al Ragaski]

Even if they are almost destroyed, they will not accept a ceasefire if your reputation is fairly bad, i would just destroy them, the Pope isnt that powerful...

[Zaleukos]

The AI is the weak link of this game. They should incorporate some sort of war score.

It will almost always accept a ceasefire if you dont share a border. Let the conquered border settlements go rebel. It's what I do if attacked by a largish enemy that I dont want to incorporate into my realm.

There are two ways to get a safe border:

As a catholic: give the border settlements to the pope and avoid excommunication.

As anyone: give the border settlements to a vassal and hope that the vassal wont be excommunicated/crusaded/jihaded by your other allies. It's hard as hell to vassalise enemies though.

[CynicalP]

I don't remember playing any game where the AI has some sense self preservation. Those games that attempt to simulate it usually do so just to buy some time to backstab the player a few turns later leaving you no option other than to annihlilate them. It would be nice to see the AI grovel a bit and beg for mercy.