1. I really don't know how we could even touch this. I don't think we've drastically changed settlement planning. I would suggest that this is a subjective interpretation of events, and I dont think that we've done anything to effect this aspect of the game.

2a I've had this in EB before, but I don't think I've ever encountered it in vanilla (but that isn't saying anything). I used a casse diplomat to negotiate peace between the aedui and the arverni. However we can have no effect on the diplomacy engine, so this is a vanilla bug.

2b I've never encountered this before, but again, EB cannot touch the diplomacy engine and so this is certainly a vanilla bug.

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