chazzycat
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I have to say I enjoy the way the AI pretends to be your friend when it's in their best interest but flips once you reveal yourself to be an enemy.
Example - one of my games this weekend I was playing as Russia/Standard/Continents/Emperor. I only had one war early - clearing the rival civ from my smallish continent. I finished him off post-Astronomy so everyone knew and a couple more squeamish leaders immediately branded me a warmonger. whatever. Around this time, I struck up a mutually beneficial relationship with England. We both had a couple luxuries to trade each other so it worked out nicely for hundreds of years - all "friendly" and "we desire peaceful relations with you". Never any warmonger hate listed in the diplo screen.
A ways down the road, I decide to go for diplo victory. The very first CS I bought was from England. This had no effect. They didn't even ask me to stop. This encouraged me to buy another one a couple turns later....then it became clear that Elizabeth was pissed. She immediately denounced me without even asking me to stop, and went to guarded after the denouncement. All that is fine with me, I would have preferred she ask me to stop first, but wahtever. The thing that caught my eye is that now in addition to the "we are competing for the same city-states" I was also penalized for being a "warmongering threat to the world".
When we were getting along fine and they wanted my luxuries, they don't care if I'm a warmonger, but now that they see I'm not helping them, they pull out every excuse to hate me and make me a pariah.
I like it.
Example - one of my games this weekend I was playing as Russia/Standard/Continents/Emperor. I only had one war early - clearing the rival civ from my smallish continent. I finished him off post-Astronomy so everyone knew and a couple more squeamish leaders immediately branded me a warmonger. whatever. Around this time, I struck up a mutually beneficial relationship with England. We both had a couple luxuries to trade each other so it worked out nicely for hundreds of years - all "friendly" and "we desire peaceful relations with you". Never any warmonger hate listed in the diplo screen.
A ways down the road, I decide to go for diplo victory. The very first CS I bought was from England. This had no effect. They didn't even ask me to stop. This encouraged me to buy another one a couple turns later....then it became clear that Elizabeth was pissed. She immediately denounced me without even asking me to stop, and went to guarded after the denouncement. All that is fine with me, I would have preferred she ask me to stop first, but wahtever. The thing that caught my eye is that now in addition to the "we are competing for the same city-states" I was also penalized for being a "warmongering threat to the world".
When we were getting along fine and they wanted my luxuries, they don't care if I'm a warmonger, but now that they see I'm not helping them, they pull out every excuse to hate me and make me a pariah.
I like it.