Proctectorates

[stupac]

I think its annoying that the enemy basically always refuses Protectorate offers, even if they are being attacked by several factions...and also refuseing to pay reperations after a war. But Force Dipolomacy should sort this . WHile on subject, how come cities (etc) WERE forced to pay reperations and such? Presumably to stop the victor from destroying them, but then why doesnt this work in the game very often? Is the AI stubboness just hardcoded into the game?

Is it really that surprising considering that CA expected the player to merely conquer the world as quickly as they could, never intending to put this into a realistic time frame. Why bother with diplomacy then, only gets in the way. And since vanilla was so incredibly easy, they needed the hard difficulty levels to give the AI more money and keep them on the player's back the whole time.