"cease fire" step between "war" and "peace"

One thing that bugs me about the game is that going from total war to mandatory 10 turn peace is ******ed.

There should be a "Cease Fire" option where the units stop fighting, but can still move in enemy territory. it shouldn't have a set turn number nominated either, you should be able to maintain tense cease fire then go to mandatory peace or break cease fire a few turns later back to war for a negative modifier penalty.

Eh, Cease Fires were in Civ IV but were almost never used. And having a cease fire where you could move around and set yourself up for a finishing blow just wouldn't play out well against the AI because they'd always end up getting their ass kicked. Even with a negative diplo modifier, that's not going to be much of a deterrent since if you're warmongering, most of the world usually hates you already.