blackcatatonic
Queen of Meme
No, I'm not trolling. But is it just me, or are the AIs which make this complaint about the player always the ones who are overexpanding themselves?
In my current game (Mongolia, Emperor) Suleiman instantly went from Friendly to Hostile when I built my fourth city not far from his borders. At that point, he had six cities already and very quickly built a seventh. He complained that I was building too close to him and I promised not to do it again, so I know the modifier didn't come from that.
Also, it seems to relate more to ownership of cities rather than just building them per se. In my previous Emperor game, Washington, who had city-spammed everywhere, wasn't too pleased when I conquered three Korean cities. Again, he had always been Friendly before that.
I only ever seem to get the 'expanding too rapidly' modifier from Civs which have been city-spamming. It seems a bit broken to me, especially when it scuppers what had previously been a solid trading relationship. Unless of course what the AI really means is 'you have stolen a good city location I was eyeing up' or 'you have captured a city I wanted to take'...
In my current game (Mongolia, Emperor) Suleiman instantly went from Friendly to Hostile when I built my fourth city not far from his borders. At that point, he had six cities already and very quickly built a seventh. He complained that I was building too close to him and I promised not to do it again, so I know the modifier didn't come from that.
Also, it seems to relate more to ownership of cities rather than just building them per se. In my previous Emperor game, Washington, who had city-spammed everywhere, wasn't too pleased when I conquered three Korean cities. Again, he had always been Friendly before that.
I only ever seem to get the 'expanding too rapidly' modifier from Civs which have been city-spamming. It seems a bit broken to me, especially when it scuppers what had previously been a solid trading relationship. Unless of course what the AI really means is 'you have stolen a good city location I was eyeing up' or 'you have captured a city I wanted to take'...