The Campaign AI is much more important at this stage than the siege and naval AI. It leaves the most to be desired.
It is now nearly imposable to get a peace settlement of any kind from the game. AI factions still remain at war for the whole game or until eliminated. Diplomatic Status still counts for nothing. Some of the diplomatic penalties are outrageous. The game does not consist of 50 or so AI factions. There is the Game vs. the player and the rest is just window dressing. The factions don't really play the game the AI god is just out to screw the player and makes use of the factions, both friendly, hostile, and neutral to hinder the player. It is all rather ludicrous.
For crying out loud, if two countries are still at war after 15 years someone should be looking for a way out of it! Five years of war is a very long time. And countries only excepting death to peace is utterly foolish. Every single faction except the pirates should be seeking peace before they are totally wiped out!
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