AI Question regarding attitudes towards City-States

[Vicevirtuoso]

An upcoming Civ of mine will get bonuses for demanding tribute from City-State allies.

Does anyone know how the AI would handle having very high values for both MINOR_CIV_APPROACH_FRIENDLY and MINOR_CIV_APPROACH_BULLY? Will it work out the way I hope it would: occasionally demand tribute while trying to keep the City-States as allies? I have a feeling this would confuse the AI a bit too much.

 

[LeeS]

Will an AI bully a CS it is allied to?

 

[whoward69]

From the C++ code, "friendly", "protective" and "ignore" are (actually 'tend to be') mutually exclusive, while "bully" and "conquest" are treated separately. Bully seems to be a multiplier to "if I'm in a position to ... should I?" rather than controlling the AI to specifically go and do something.

There's nothing I can see in the AI code that would get confused (ie mutually exclusive if/then/else or switch/case statements) by what appear to be contradictory settings.

 

[Vicevirtuoso]

It might actually work out, then. I imagine that AIs aren't very keen on bullying their own allies, so MINOR_CIV_APPROACH_BULLY might need to be set to 12 or higher.