Hello again Leoreth,
Me and Sinsyne were talking about his story on S&T and then a question arose which I wanted to check with you.
We were discussing the Stability in DoC 1.12, specifically about the Foreign Tab.
There he is enjoying a great bonus, probably because of the good number of OBs he has, several of those with civs that have a different State Religion, and only a few civs that appear on the bottom-right list he doesn't have OB with.
Then my question came: When calculating this part of the Stability, how exactly a civ with OB and a civ without OB are accounted?
In the guide you say that for every second civilization you can contact, you lose 1 point. What exactly is a civ you can contact? Is it a civ that appears on the bottom-right list? Is it a civ which you had contact at least once in the game? Is it any civ currently alive in the game, independently from any contact our two nations might have had?
And about OBs? Do civs that aren't on the bottom-right list, but that actually do have OB with us count? Or only those on the bottom-right list with OB that count?
The reason why I'm presuming all this is that when I was summarizing the specifics of the Caliphate, I saw that even though we didn't have contact with some nations (e.g. France, Indonesia), we still got the gold they paid us in deals we made when we had contact with each other. So our Trade Deals were still active, even though we couldn't contact each other anymore. So if these deals were active, I imagine OBs keep alive when nations lose contact.
So how exactly is this mechanic applied?
Me and Sinsyne were talking about his story on S&T and then a question arose which I wanted to check with you.
We were discussing the Stability in DoC 1.12, specifically about the Foreign Tab.
There he is enjoying a great bonus, probably because of the good number of OBs he has, several of those with civs that have a different State Religion, and only a few civs that appear on the bottom-right list he doesn't have OB with.
Then my question came: When calculating this part of the Stability, how exactly a civ with OB and a civ without OB are accounted?
In the guide you say that for every second civilization you can contact, you lose 1 point. What exactly is a civ you can contact? Is it a civ that appears on the bottom-right list? Is it a civ which you had contact at least once in the game? Is it any civ currently alive in the game, independently from any contact our two nations might have had?
And about OBs? Do civs that aren't on the bottom-right list, but that actually do have OB with us count? Or only those on the bottom-right list with OB that count?
The reason why I'm presuming all this is that when I was summarizing the specifics of the Caliphate, I saw that even though we didn't have contact with some nations (e.g. France, Indonesia), we still got the gold they paid us in deals we made when we had contact with each other. So our Trade Deals were still active, even though we couldn't contact each other anymore. So if these deals were active, I imagine OBs keep alive when nations lose contact.
So how exactly is this mechanic applied?