Diplomacy problems

belverus · #1 February 11th, 2001, 08:44 AM

can someone explain to me why a race suddenly, for no reason, cancels all treaties - only to ask for a trade treaty the next turn? I've got the Lastest patch. And I'm not at war with anybody (that's about to change).. so why?

s_rat · #2 February 11th, 2001, 01:46 PM

Is the race run by a woman?

j/k aside, I've had that happen to me as well, for who knows what reason.

DirkHowitzer · #3 February 11th, 2001, 05:34 PM

I too have had this done to me. Annoying, huh? You might want to download the diplomacy mod from the mod section. It stabilizes the AI in diplomacy quite a bit.

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Baron Munchausen · #4 February 11th, 2001, 06:24 PM

quote:
Originally posted by belverus:
can someone explain to me why a race suddenly, for no reason, cancels all treaties - only to ask for a trade treaty the next turn? I've got the Lastest patch. And I'm not at war with anybody (that's about to change).. so why?

Balance. The various settings that govern how the AI reacts to you are changed when your treaty status with them changes. Currently, most of the settings are a bit too slanted towards making them 'favorable' to you when you are not in a treaty, so they tend to come running back after they've canceled. It is a bit silly, isn't it?

belverus · #5 February 11th, 2001, 06:51 PM

so that would mean - too avoid war avoid treaties.

Marty Ward · #6 February 11th, 2001, 07:22 PM

As Napoleon said " I would rather fight allies than be allies."