The Ups and Downs of 1.3.1

[Fisherking]

I am not sure what I am doing differently, but, playing on VH in 1.3, I do not seem to have these (so vividly described by folks) difficulties to make peace with the AI. Most of the time AI agrees to peace either in exchange just for that: the peace or in a package with a trade deal. Sometimes it asks for some money. If it asks for too much or refuses to make peace, I just beat on the AI a bit more and it accepts the peace deal after one of the subsequent defeats.

At times, there is a faction or two that just bluntly refuse to make peace. They usually do, if the conditions become right (I beat on them more, more factions join in the war against them, etc.) in a turn or two...

In terms of diplomacy I see the biggest problem being the fact that the AI still does not make peace with other AI factions despite CA saying that inter-AI peace brokering does take place. I have not seen a single time when the AI would have made a peace deal with other AI factions. How do I know? I frequently check who is at war with whom.

I have had a faction offer peace one time. That was France and to except would be to abandon an ally. I didn't share a border with them but I was still a bit surprised to get the offer.

I had one faction accept peace. I had been at war with them for 75 years. It was Austria. They had one province left and I had destroyed all their regular troops and had the citizens under siege. I had offered them peace at least 30 times and they finally took it the turn before they were toast.

No other faction ever excepted peace regardless of the terms in any other campaign.

I have tried what you spoke of to make peace, but it never ever worked.

Most recently I killed off Sweden after destroying a fleet and killing 5 of their 6 stacks in one turn. The last stack only had one partial cavalry unit but retreated beyond where I could reach it, and the last region was under siege with only firelock citizens in it.