Hey everybody.
There's something that I don't get, Alexander's City State Competetitveness (aka how much he gets mad if you steal one of its City State, correct me if I'm wrong) is still set to 3 (ie not that much actually) ? Whereas he has nice UA for City State, this is kinda counter intuitive.
I thought this was some kind of bug that was fixed in early revisions of the game.
Thx !
I actually kind of remember that from back then. But, I believe it was his CS Conquest flavor that they lowered quite a bit. Because, once they're dead (by him), his ability is of no use in that instance.
The new bullying feature is another matter, and I actually think his flavor for that should be a little higher (his ability works and benefits him both ways! They'll forgive him twice as fast.). But, it's probably so because the AI probably can't bully the way a player would and would probably do foolish plays - like bullying CS in which they have a decent amount of influence with instead of others that are still sitting at neutral influence and ripe for bullying. I guess it's best left at a lower value.
I believe the competitiveness just controls how fast they get angry with you by adjusting threshold numbers within the diplomacy AI. Alex already gets angry with you for almost everything else anyway.
Perhaps the devs felt it unnecessary for him to flip out over other civs befriending "his" city-states and instead he shows a pompous and unconcerned attitude (of course, he doesn't really
) towards you because he knows his influence with them degrades at half the speed and he's paying half the amount of gold needed for their time and perks. So, with wealth being equal and both managing to complete quests, in the long run he'll probably win.
It's good that he's quite protective of them, though. This way other civs don't wipe them off the map. But, if they do, Alex will have a nice friend/ally for a while if he happens to liberate the CS. (I wonder if this flavor is applied to an AI strategy to take back CS cities and liberate them.... doubt it, but that would be nice.)
I "do" think his gold flavor should be kicked up just a few points. Gold isn't as valuable for buying influence anymore, but for Alex, it's a different story since he's get twice the duration/perks from doing so.
