EB = a more docile AI?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, I have played on medium as Pontos in the past in EB and just found almost every single faction unwilling to make peace (and same thing when I played as Hayasdan). Once the Seleukids broke their treaties with me, I never could get them or anyone else near me to ally or even be peaceful with me. I had to constantly fight the Seleukids and the other nearby factions. But I could occasionlly get a smaller faction more distant to ally if I was lucky. So this just is to say that sometimes it works both ways.

[Greek_fire19]

On the other hand, I have never ever seen bactria or parthia go to war with the seleucids (or each other, really). Bactria just scoop up the provinces that rebel from the seleucids, and eventually go after the Yuezhi and India. The germans are far enough away from everyone and with enough rebels that they hardly ever seem to need to attack any other faction.

[Wandarah]

Yes, it's the economics that results in this behavior.

It's good.

[tk-421]

I sort of think that some of the factions expand too much. The Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires have both expanded a lot in the campaigns that I've played. I would think that those two factions should pretty much fall apart when controlled by the computer. AI Carthage shouldn't exactly fall apart, but something should keep them from expanding so much in North Africa. There are some factions, though, that don't do nearly enough. Rome and Parthia don't seem expand enough. It would be nice if it was scripted for Rome and Carthage to go to war and for Parthia and the Seleucid Empire to go to war. I don't know if it is possible, but it would also be nice if it could be scripted somehow for the computer-controlled factions to go after the settlements that are part of their victory conditions instead of expanding whichever way.

[Arman616]

I sort of think that some of the factions expand too much. The Seleucid and Ptolemaic empires have both expanded a lot in the campaigns that I've played. I would think that those two factions should pretty much fall apart when controlled by the computer. AI Carthage shouldn't exactly fall apart, but something should keep them from expanding so much in North Africa. There are some factions, though, that don't do nearly enough. Rome and Parthia don't seem expand enough. It would be nice if it was scripted for Rome and Carthage to go to war and for Parthia and the Seleucid Empire to go to war. I don't know if it is possible, but it would also be nice if it could be scripted somehow for the computer-controlled factions to go after the settlements that are part of their victory conditions instead of expanding whichever way.

Yes. Rome and pahlav need to expand more than they do now.

[paullus]

I've seen both Rome and Parthia expanding, and in a Casse game Baktria and the Seleukids ended up at war, while in a KH game the Seleukids ended up practically annihilated by, well, most everyone. I like the way the same thing doesn't happen every time. In my new Carthage game, Epiros paid me to attack Rome about 262 when the Romans besieged Taras, that was quite cool.

As far as Rome and Carthage fighting, shouldn't there be a script linking an attack on Messana by either faction to a declaration of war between the two?

[stufer]

As far as Rome and Carthage fighting, shouldn't there be a script linking an attack on Messana by either faction to a declaration of war between the two?

That's a great idea, like the war that's started with KH and Pontos or with whoever takes that middle Greek city.

I'm finding my Rome campaign tough going as the AI seems hellbent on defeating me. Its very aggressive with huge Ptolemaic armies keeping me pinned in Libya so that I can never quite finish off the Carthaginians in West Africa, nor the Iberians.

The Germans have expanded massively but are at peace with all factions bordering them including me. They have a couple more rebel regions to get and when they do I pray they take on the Makedonians and not us as I have almost my entire army in North Africa and Iberia.

Makedonia has stalled in its conquest of Asia Minor as the Pontics are putting up an impressive fight.

Bizzarrely the Seleucid/Ptolemaic war ended near the beginning of the game. Ptolemy gained the Seleucids as a Protectorate in about 250 BC and that stopped the Baktrians from taking them apart as they were doing. Baktria owns all of the Eastern parts of Seleucia and the Ptolemies control the Near East.