Quote Originally Posted by Husar View Post
I'm now playing ping pong with marathas, they declare war on me but don't attack yet, in my turn i propose peace and they accept it, their attitude towards me is always "friendly", then, two or three turns later, they declare war again without starting any battle or raid, in my turn I propose peace and they accept, their attitude towards me is "friendly", then...

Happened three times now I think and so far it looks like I can keep doing that ad absurdum.
What difficulty setting are you playing on?

This sounds like the programmed, constant deterioration of relations on H and VH setting that was in M2TW, absent bribery or something else to stop the slide. At M difficulty relations would stay static, at Easy they'd slowly keep improving. If you're playing at M or Easy, that blows the theory.

This could also be the targeted province effect, if you're sitting on a province the AI needs for a win condition. There are a lot of overlapping "gotta have it" provinces in this game, and the world starts in a more developed state than M2TW or RTW.