Dumb Diplomacy: 2nd 'Screw the Player Event' Avoided.

[Krusader]

When your neighbours declare war on you there should be some sense or logic behind it.

*They dislike you and decide to spank you. (High negative reputation).
*Their allies are at war with you and could move in to help them.
*You make a bad diplomatic proposal.
*They see an oppturinty to grab weakly defended area(s) from you.

And they should have the armies/navies available to do so as well.
If factions just randomly declare war, what is the point with Diplomacy system really.
My favourite dream come true, would be if another company or companies decided to make Total War style games. CA lacks real competition.

I never played M2TW for more than 8 hours total (not counting Broken Crescent). I absolutely hated how the AI was programmed to attack you no matter what. Kingdoms was the first TW product I did not buy (in addition to Alexander). The demo of ETW made me preorder though and I havent regretted it.

Note: I don't play as much ETW as I used too, due to the latest patch changes. But ETW is among the best TW games I've played and they have added a lot new concepts and game mechanics and improved many areas from earlier TW games. Thought I'd mention that, so no one will call me anti-ETWer or something.