+27 friendly relationship turned into war

[Nerfnow]

On my last game I had Sabathiel (Bannon) declare war on my Elohim Civilization.

We shared the same religion, had +300 years of peacefully relations and even had a defensive pact. I had a +27 positive relation with him and he even gave me free techs now and them.

I was aiming for a Altar victory and had 5 parts of the Altar made, needing just 1 extra Prophet (for the 6th part) and Omniscience to build the last part.

The turn I discovery Omniscience, next thing he does is declare war on me... so I ask if there is any relation between Omniscience and Sabathiel going apeshit.

 

[Folket]

Any civilization not at war will declare war on you if you are getting close to complete tower of mastery or altar of lounnart.

 

[MasterCorran]

Folket is right on that point. The moment you add the Tower of Mastery or the Altar of 'whatever-it's-called' to the building queue of one your cities, practically every civs will declare war on you, no matter how good your standing is with them. The only exceptions are those who are in a permanent allience with you. Not too sure about vassals though.

 

[SolkaTruesilver]

Folket is right on that point. The moment you add the Tower of Mastery or the Altar of 'whatever-it's-called' to the building queue of one your cities, practically every civs will declare war on you, no matter how good your standing is with them. The only exceptions are those who are in a permanent allience with you. Not too sure about vassals though.

Allied civs should be given the chocie to either help you out, or betray you. If they help you out, they might get shared victory.

It would add interesting strategic depth. Sometimes, it's better aim for 2nd place than just risk outright losing.

 

[Nerfnow]

Any civilization not at war will declare war on you if you are getting close to complete tower of mastery or altar of lounnart.

Interesting!

To my luck, I had another Desensive pact with the elves, the largest civilization if you didn't count the Bannor-Mercurian alliance (which had the dwarves has their vassals)

So what happened...

Bannor declare war on me.
Mercurian, their allies, declare war on me.
Dwarves, their vasssals, declare war on me.
Elves, on defensive pact with me, declare war on all of them.

I sanctuary my lands and the elves lose half of their empire before I complete the tower.

 

[Morkonan]

...I sanctuary my lands and the elves lose half of their empire before I complete the tower.

Gee, that was nice of you.

 

[Selrahc]

Any civilization not at war will declare war on you if you are getting close to complete tower of mastery or altar of lounnart.

The altar of Luonottar only causes evil civs to declare(From altar V). Good and neutral aligned civs let you get away with that one.