The AI´s lack of admitting defeat!

[Dutch_guy]

There has to be something we can do about the AI´s ability to admitt defeat and act accordingly.
In my current RTR campaign I´ve laid all Carthage´s cities to waist, exterminated the populance, raising every building that´s destructable and beaten them in well over 40 decisive battles with an average kill ration of 20:1, not to mention all the assaults. They have no fleets and I´ve raised all their ports. I´ve killed all family members except three and they keep coming at me with peasant stacks???! and not accepting even a "simple" ceasefire. They shure are hellbent on destruction.
Now, I can understand that they are pretty pissed of, he he, but I´ve been trying to get a ceasefire sine turn 1 and now I´m passing 40 turns but no luck... remeber, they broke the alliance with me and attacked so I guess the AI still thinks he can win???! This is really annoying! Any ideas?

in my RTR game I had the same situation as you have in your game.
However in my game the exepted protectorate status
I too offerd them ceasfire after ceasfire - I wanted to take the greek penninsulla ( sp ) owned by Macedon - but the nI decided to just take a chance and offer the protectorate.
They of course wanted me to give them all of their settlementr that I had taken from them back - what were they thinking ?! - I refused , knowing that if I would want to kill them later on I would have to wage a major war again, that was not an option.
So I said become protectorate for 100 K , and they accepted

But still I get your point , the AI always thinks it can win,when I was sieging the Gallic capital - the last city left - I offerd them protectorate but the diplomat refused giving me the freedom is precies speech...

[PseRamesses]

So I said become protectorate for 100 K , and they accepted

Did you actually pay 100k to get a protectorate? Well ok, but that´s a no option out of pure principe for me in this situation since they betrayed me and broke our alliance. What´s really bugging me is the useless diplomat function that this game has. It actually seems that CA haven´t even playtested this game to any extent before release and that´s the most fightning thought of all. This is the reason I posted this prob to see if any solutions could be found.

[Dutch_guy]

Did you actually pay 100k to get a protectorate?

yeah , I knew that they would just give it all back the following turn.

but that´s a no option out of pure principe for me in this situation since they betrayed me and broke our alliance

well I must say , I would not have done it either if they betrayed me

And by the way I don't think it can be fixed those dipl. probs , probably hardcoded, to bad though, hope they make it better in further projects