Quote Originally Posted by Sheogorath View Post
I've been playing it with Imperial Splendour. Really improves things. Sadly I'll have to wait for them to update it after the patch to fix all the stupid gameplay changes CA's forcing in.
The diplomacy triggers seem to be the same in IS. I guess, those are "under the hood" and the modders cannot do much about it. The game is much more engaging and in general harder than vanilla though. Beware though, that one of the ways IS achieves it is by letting the AI's army upkeep be about 50% of the player's (and less) on medium settings.