Quote Originally Posted by Ordani View Post
Every time you eliminate a faction you are at war with, you go back into the state of whatever evaluation it does to send another faction against you. The "number of factions at war" hypothesis isn't precise, but it's on the ball.
That I also noticed, the system is made to keep you at war at all times, I know it's called total War but it would be nice if you could just build up a trade empire and choose wars yourself instead of having the AI choose them all for you, that's not to say it should never declare war but if it always does 1 or two turns after you eliminated the last faction then that is just a silly way to keep you on your toes, I could think of a few better ways to achieve the same thing without making one province factions declare war on the mightiest faction around.