Friend then enemy?
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Refar
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Charlie is a sneaky backstabbing jerk.
You can make it less likely by making more troops. If you look like a easy pushover the AI will backstab you. Once you at war someone AI will concider you even a easier target (assuming thet you have your hands full with the first war) and sometimes decide to dogpile.
You can make it less likely by making more troops. If you look like a easy pushover the AI will backstab you. Once you at war someone AI will concider you even a easier target (assuming thet you have your hands full with the first war) and sometimes decide to dogpile.
I think the only AI who backstabbs at Friendly is Cathy. The others shouldn't if they're Friendly, but not sure. There are always those AIs where you have to be careful: Monty, Shaka, Ragnar, Toku, Alex, Boudica, those Khans...
and there are some AIs who will rarely attack you like Mansa Musa, Gandhi, Pacal...
Always have some additional troops on borders with those more agressive AIs...
and there are some AIs who will rarely attack you like Mansa Musa, Gandhi, Pacal...
Always have some additional troops on borders with those more agressive AIs...
JujuLautre
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usually, leaders have a 90 or 100% to not attack if they are friendly. And all of them have this probability at 100% when friendly. This means that NO LEADER will decide to attack you at friendly, and most of them even at pleased. Some of them could do it (the 90% group)
However, this is about the AI deciding to go to war at a given moment. As far as I know, there are 3 situations where a pleased (with 100%) or friendly AI could declare you war:
- the decision to go to war is done before the declaration of war. This means that you could have an AI (with 100% at pleased) at cautious that decides to go to war with you, then for some reason she becomes pleased with you, and then declare war on you. Here an exception.
- an AI can be bribed to go to war. Some AI will never decide to go to war with you when they are pleased, but they may accept a bribe from another civ. And it appears that some civ will never declare to you at pleased, but are ok to go to war with pleased nations when bribed
And here is the trick about Cathy: she is the ONLY AI who will go to war with a friendly nation if you pay her enough (note that you have to be friendly with her to pay for that; so watch out for Cathy's friends, even if you are her friend)
- the apostolic palace can unleash a crusade on a civ; all the civ with the AP's religion will declare, independently of diplo status.
However, this is about the AI deciding to go to war at a given moment. As far as I know, there are 3 situations where a pleased (with 100%) or friendly AI could declare you war:
- the decision to go to war is done before the declaration of war. This means that you could have an AI (with 100% at pleased) at cautious that decides to go to war with you, then for some reason she becomes pleased with you, and then declare war on you. Here an exception.
- an AI can be bribed to go to war. Some AI will never decide to go to war with you when they are pleased, but they may accept a bribe from another civ. And it appears that some civ will never declare to you at pleased, but are ok to go to war with pleased nations when bribed
And here is the trick about Cathy: she is the ONLY AI who will go to war with a friendly nation if you pay her enough (note that you have to be friendly with her to pay for that; so watch out for Cathy's friends, even if you are her friend)- the apostolic palace can unleash a crusade on a civ; all the civ with the AP's religion will declare, independently of diplo status.
The Rook
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Charlegmagne is sound if you can get him to pleased. Follow his religion and he's your friend for life.
King of Town
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I think I've seen about 4 or 5 of these threads asking the same question recently
lordqarlyn
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Yeah, the AI loves to backstab. I have to remember to stockpile the military. After all, what's the use of having a highly developed country if it gets taken?
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