How are u going to do with the Diplomacy problem?

[Birka Viking]

When you have been in a war with a faction and manage to have peace with them..Its always seems to be a very short peace, becasue they always seems to attack as fast as they can. My question is...is it possible to have peace for a longer time or for ever with a faction?

My second question is...Is it possible to have more help by an ally in a war than it is to day? An ally to day dosent care much if I are attacked.
How will EB do with does problem??

Sorry for my bad english..

[pezhetairoi]

Yeah, you could make it so that it is -compulsory- to break an alliance before you can even have the option to attack an ally. Or you must have a diplomat making a real declaration of war before you can attack a neutral. And alliance agreements must be binding, for say 10 turns, before you can even opt to cancel alliance.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

I don't know for sure, but it seems like AI vs. AI alliances seem to be a little more realistic than AI vs. Human alliances (which the AI often has no problems breaking at any time). Doing test runs I am fairly happy with what the AI vs. AI diplomacy is doing in EB so far, but I'll admit that when I do play RTW the whole alliance thing does get me irritated too. I don't know what can really be done about it. There may be some guys in the mod who do have answers, but I don't know what they'd be and I'm not particularly optimistic.

[Birka Viking]

I hope that they will figure out a way to mod these bugs. Because if they manage to do so the hole game will high several levels.

[caesar44]

agree !
but there is no chance to improve the diplomacy

[Goatsong]

like everyone I am hugely impressed with the weekly faction updates. The skins, map details and new buildings are going to make this one fine looking mod.

I also have faith that the team will address the famous bugs (horse archers etc) as far as they can within the limits of hard coding + tone down the arcade strye 'warp speed' combat.

What I would really love to see in EB is a serious improvement to diplomacy and economics. Playing as the germans, seeing my toga clad diplomat wandering round the world trying to 'sell my map' in the attempt to raise enough money to recruit one extra unit takes away and feeling for the realism of the period. Hving tribal nations such as the germans, britons and scythians unable to field armies because they can't build a big enough city to support them is just.....wrong.