The Good, The Bad and the Interesting AI diplomatic offers

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 03-06-2009, 05:35

Playing as France the dutch offered me Ceylon in exchange for French Guyana. Gave me a free beachhead to invade India.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-06-2009, 06:05

That makes sense, since Suriname is right beside it, and the Indian factions are fairly strong.

**DisruptorX** · 03-06-2009, 08:04

By the end of my short campaign I was getting 4-5 trade offers a turn. Not the good kind, the "give us territory and we'll give you something" kind.

This annoying trade spam was in the previous civilization title, where it was just as irritating. Except in that game is was whining about granting military access.

Hopefully they'll be some way to just refuse envoys outright or something, because in repeated playthroughs, I don't want to click through all of those x's every single turn. I began to dread hitting the "end turn" icon because I knew I'd have to wade through obnoxious offers.

**A Very Super Market** · 03-06-2009, 08:08

4-5

That is like, 20 seconds of clicking?

**DisruptorX** · 03-06-2009, 08:09

Originally Posted by A Very Super Market

4-5

That is like, 20 seconds of clicking?

After 30 turns, thats several minutes spent doing nothing but dismissing "offers". And since every single one is outrageous, it is more than an inconvenience.

**knoddy** · 03-06-2009, 08:16

Originally Posted by DisruptorX

After 30 turns, thats several minutes spent doing nothing but dismissing "offers". And since every single one is outrageous, it is more than an inconvenience.

there not that outrageous, its just that players put keeping a province above trade agreement etc.

tbh, if i was stripped for cash i would have traded a province for a 2-3k trade route. however i wasnt short on cash or income and spains offer of a province in america and in central europe was too good of an opportunity to miss a beachhead into both theaters, especially when i can just back stab them and take it back :D

but yes i agree if spammed it can be annoying

**DisruptorX** · 03-06-2009, 08:25

Interestingly enough, these offers only came from my official trade partners, which made it doubly annoying. I needed them to fill my huge pile of gold (into which my ruler would dive like Scrooge McDuck), but hated being annoyed by them.

As far as diplomacy otherwise, I found it fairly good. AI was often fast to attack me, but once defeated and having lost territory, they would sign a peace and not attack their clearly superior foe (me).

I conquered all of India, a bit of Persia because they attacked me first, and then focused on making money. I was well over 100,000 when the game ended in 1750. I then sent all of my armies to the Caribbean and fought against pirates, because it seemed like a surreal thing to do.

Just that damn spam. Very, very reminiscent of Civ 4.