The - if there are new things in... thread

[Martok]

Diplomacy that actually make sense....and an AI that utilize its functions effectively.

If I'm at war with someone, have them down to their last province when I own 50 provinces, I expect they'll accept my offer of a ceasefire (should I feel gracious enough to offer one). If I demand that someone become my vassal/protectorate, I shouldn't have to give them money just so that they'll accept -- they should recognize they're in a much weaker position than myself and accept vassalage/protectorate status knowing they have little other choice. I also don't want factions to accept alliances if they're simply going to break them less than 5 turns later.

If a bunch of factions are going to gang up on me because I'm the Big Guy (and I should note I don't particularly like this "feature" of TW games either), they had better do so while they still have a reasonable chance of actually defeating me. There are few things more irritating than being a 60-province superpower who has to beat off a coalition of factions that own less than 20 provinces themselves -- it's nothing more than an annoying speed bump in those situations. It'd be far better if I were a 20-province superpower fighting against a coalition of factions that own 20 provinces themselves. If I'm going to get dogpiled, then by gods I want to have to really *fight* my way out trouble!