Zhahz
PC Gamer
Dunno if this counts as a bug or not, but I find it annoying.
One can easily have such mediocre or poor relations with an AI that the AI will not give you anything - no resource trading, no tech trading (unless it's moronically unbalanced in their favor), no asking them to go to war with someone, etc.
BUT
That AI will be able to ask for all of the above from you. They can demand your latest tech discovery (something you can't even do from friends), they can ask for gold, ask you to go to war, they can demand resources, etc.
Hell, sometimes two AIs will go to war and both will ask me to come to their aid, which is idiotic considering I'm probably on crappy terms with both of them.
So the AIs you get along with the worst can demand anything from you, which you will undoubtably not accept, and your relations will get worse and worse.
To me the diplomacy should go both ways equally.
(Side note, it's kinda silly when an AI asks you to go to war for them when you're already at war - war is costly in Civ IV and if you're already in a war it's frickin unlikely that you're going to want to join another war unless it's some kind of alliance vs alliance deal.)
One can easily have such mediocre or poor relations with an AI that the AI will not give you anything - no resource trading, no tech trading (unless it's moronically unbalanced in their favor), no asking them to go to war with someone, etc.
BUT
That AI will be able to ask for all of the above from you. They can demand your latest tech discovery (something you can't even do from friends), they can ask for gold, ask you to go to war, they can demand resources, etc.
Hell, sometimes two AIs will go to war and both will ask me to come to their aid, which is idiotic considering I'm probably on crappy terms with both of them.
So the AIs you get along with the worst can demand anything from you, which you will undoubtably not accept, and your relations will get worse and worse.
To me the diplomacy should go both ways equally.
(Side note, it's kinda silly when an AI asks you to go to war for them when you're already at war - war is costly in Civ IV and if you're already in a war it's frickin unlikely that you're going to want to join another war unless it's some kind of alliance vs alliance deal.)