Illogical Diplomatic Decisions

[Didz]

CA need to do a lot more work on the diplomacy side of this game. I am still getting stupid decisions being made by AI factions, which are irritating especially coming to this game from a roleplaying background where a great deal of effort actually goes into ensuring that NPC factions make sensible decisions. There are ways to do this, which were explained years ago in the book about the Hyboria Campaign it just needs a bit more effort to provide each factions with some sensible 'survive and prosper' rules.

[Prussian to the Iron]

dude, your singing to the choir. there are like over 9000 "bad diplomacy" complaint threads. we all know the diplomacy sucks. hopefully CA will fix it, but odds are they won't. just live with it.


an example is when, as the knights of st john, i tried to buy sicily and sardinia off of spain for a handsome amount of money. they refused(even though they had more than enough provinces anyway), and idecided to take them. now, not only am i growing exponentially, but i have created an "Italian League" so to speak. every single italian state(plus the barbaries) are either my allies or my protectorates, and we are all ganging up on spain. this is better than just conquering itly, because now i can devote my entire forces at spain while their trade is cut off by my buddies and raiding parties.

now spain has every port in europe blockaded, half their european provinces gone, and half the mediteranean against them. they are ready to fall pretty quick(plus now i'll get some trade ports and colleges to research and trade).

[Dayve]

Such as don't declare war on a nation 10 times bigger than you, with more money and an army big enough to crush you 100 times over. They also need to make peace. Once they go to war, that's it, they're at war for the duration of the campaign. Period.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Such as don't declare war on a nation 10 times bigger than you, with more money and an army big enough to crush you 100 times over. They also need to make peace. Once they go to war, that's it, they're at war for the duration of the campaign. Period.

wait...what? i just said i was kicking their asses into the sea! my league of italian nations will soon annhilate the spanish noobs and "reach out and touch" portugal and france.

[Dayve]

it just needs a bit more effort to provide each factions with some sensible 'survive and prosper' rules.

Such as don't declare war on a nation 10 times bigger than you, with more money and an army big enough to crush you 100 times over. They also need to make peace. Once they go to war, that's it, they're at war for the duration of the campaign. Period.

See?

[Prussian to the Iron]

oh i thought yo uwere talking to me. thanks for clearing that up :D

[Dayve]

I know, we posted at the same time, i had intended for mine to go right under the original post.

The AI will never get fixed, we got suckered into a lie by CA, simple as that.