About every other game I find a city state that has conquered another, or two that are actively at war. I see their units damaging each other. The odd thing is, they are both allied with me.
As best as I can tell this is due to coups. During peace treaties the CS treaties are included automatically, so everything is stopped. However a coup can be successfully carried out against a city state with which you are at war. Obviously the odds aren't very high, but with a fully-leveled spy and a just-rigged election (which lowers the AI's standing), they're not impossible.
If you complete the coup you'll be at war still, but with the city state not allied with your enemy. Afterward you can request peace, causing the city state to switch to your side. Since you'd not declared war on it you won't be at the -60 standing. However, there was also never a full peace treaty, so maybe the other city states never got the message to stop fighting. I've not managed to keep track to see exactly what city states do what, but this is the only theory that makes any sense.
Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone have an alternative theory, maybe with better evidence? (that is to say, more than the next-to-none that I have here)
As best as I can tell this is due to coups. During peace treaties the CS treaties are included automatically, so everything is stopped. However a coup can be successfully carried out against a city state with which you are at war. Obviously the odds aren't very high, but with a fully-leveled spy and a just-rigged election (which lowers the AI's standing), they're not impossible.
If you complete the coup you'll be at war still, but with the city state not allied with your enemy. Afterward you can request peace, causing the city state to switch to your side. Since you'd not declared war on it you won't be at the -60 standing. However, there was also never a full peace treaty, so maybe the other city states never got the message to stop fighting. I've not managed to keep track to see exactly what city states do what, but this is the only theory that makes any sense.
Has anyone else run into this? Does anyone have an alternative theory, maybe with better evidence? (that is to say, more than the next-to-none that I have here)