Forced peace time - something is bothering me.

[The Keeper]

Everyone fights wars and then eventually sues/bribes for peace. On normal setting, the time of forced peace with that civ is 10 turns. On quick, epic, and marathon: it is 10 turns.

In my present marathon game, I sued for peace. The only reason was so I could have a little bit of time to move some more units closer so I could redeclare war after 10 turns.

In those 10 turns, the enemy (Saladin) was unable to do anything to protect himself. It wasn't enough time for me to build up a more massive army. All it was time for me to reposition some of my forces since I wouldn't be doing much attacking for the next few turns anyway.



I think that the time of forced peace should be scaled. Not sure of the exact turn limits, but it should be scaled. If I bribe for peace after getting my butt handed to me, I should at least have time to rebuild so I have the ability to come back.

And when sueing for peace, it would make you think a little bit harder about it.

"Do I want to wait 20 turns with my macemen 2 turns from their border?"

 

[Zanmato]

Perhaps declaring a 'Cease Fire' would have been better. Why is the peace 'forced'? Redeclaring war will only damage relations further with your foe and the other Civs that he/she is on friendly terms with aswell adding weariness. I do agree with you that the peace time should be scaled depending on the game speed.

 

[The Keeper]

In the game, relations didn't matter. The world was split in 2, and I was going to take all of the other side out.

Then see how much more I needed for domination.

 

[Howitzah]

It doesn't seem like a lot but 10 turns can make a huge differance.

You could easily pop-rush a new set of catapaults, city defenders etc in that time, and you also have time to move your unimportant backline forces forward.

 

[microbe]

Cease fire is powerful. You don't have to wait to redeclare. The only downside is having to wait for a while for the enemy to talk to you again.

Make peace to kick out enemies and reposition troops to sneak attack. I love it. Especially handy when the enemy suddenly drops some units beside your weakly defended cities..