Question on 0.8 for the team and testers.

[abou]

How are faction attitudes? Do the Seleukids and Ptolemaioi stay at war with each other if you are playing as Baktria or Armenia or Carthage? Right now this issue is why I've practically stopped playing my Baktrian campaign. Even on medium i'm slogging through stack after stack of Seleukid elites and the Ptolemaioi aren't at war with anyone.

I would probably finish AS off, but I don't want to share a border with anyone in Anatolia for fear of going to war with another faction.

[abou]

No dice?

[Teleklos Archelaou]

We're still working on some of it. The beta testers might be able to answer that question better quite honestly and are free to do so as long as they don't reveal anything that should remain secret.

I would also advise though being very very nice to the seleukids if you are playing as any faction near them (except ptolemies), no matter what. As pontos recently I figured that out. I said to myself that no matter if a seleukid army was around, i could still take Nikaia as it was not a seleukid rebel city. But i took it and they got mad and attacked me. I should have left it alone while they were anywhere nearby, and even ought to have sent them a nice little ang pow while I was at it too to make them happier.

[Zaknafien]

Well now that TA has given us the go-ahead to respond, I would say that faction attitudes are working out very well in the new build. The diplomacy seems much improved with starting and core attitudes of various factions. Some factions are much more aggressive, while others are more passive according to their historical perspectives. And yeah, the Seleucids are pretty mean indeed, expanding in ways not seen before.

[MSB]

Well now that TA has given us the go-ahead to respond, I would say that faction attitudes are working out very well in the new build. The diplomacy seems much improved with starting and core attitudes of various factions. Some factions are much more aggressive, while others are more passive according to their historical perspectives. And yeah, the Seleucids are pretty mean indeed, expanding in ways not seen before.

Hmmm sounds good. I always have wanted the Seleucids to try and expand rather than just sit there while they get battered by Egypt and the Eastern Kingdoms.

[paullus]

They seem to be pretty vicious. The situation in Italy and Greece is tense, things are a bit more even it seems. And I have yet to see the Ptolemies and Carthaginians go to war with each other. Plus, 1.5 is fun, getting rid of the siege bug really helps the AI out.