Anyone noticed that AI offer absurdly high amounts of gold per turn for declaring someone he dont like? And even for peacing with someone he like. At first glance sounds fair, but anyway majority of times it is wars you wage for yourself and benefits from by yourself. But additionally some wealthy guy can offer you so much gold for this that bigger than your own income. Every time you want to declare someone check diplomacy before - most of the times is there someone who pay you for this war, even if they both dont even denounce each other. If you do not want to expand you can take this money, declare war and just sitting on your borders and then peacing out. Feels like exploiting AI stupidity and make games easy even on immortal/deity