It's stupid. That's it. it's flat-out stupid and poorly written. I had a nice and quiet game where Morocco and I were best buddies. The Zulu start smacking him around, cap his capital, and reduce him to one city from his starting 4. Me, I just got done bringing Siam down to size with my legions because he insisted on plopping cities on my doorstep before telling me he didn't appreciate me building in land he considered his. Anyway, I've got this juggernaut war machine with nothing to do and Zulu presented himself with job opportunities. I crushed The Zulu, liberated all of Morocco's cities, and took the fight to The Zulu. I destroyed two Zulu cities and suddenly, Morocco, with a grocery list of green diplomacy modifiers from me propping him up on my shoulders, begins to warn me about my aggressive ways. A few turns pass and he denounces me. What. The. Funk.
The AI in this game is miserably stupid. It's to the point I feel like every game is me vs the world. In Civ4, you could at least build and maintain long-lasting relationships. In Civ5, it is so, SO easy to earn the warmonger trait, but so, SO arduous to shake it off.
Mind you while all this was happening, Morocco was still at war with The Zulu.
The AI in this game is miserably stupid. It's to the point I feel like every game is me vs the world. In Civ4, you could at least build and maintain long-lasting relationships. In Civ5, it is so, SO easy to earn the warmonger trait, but so, SO arduous to shake it off.
Mind you while all this was happening, Morocco was still at war with The Zulu.