Is this a diplo bug or intended?

[bhavv]

I sign a friendship pact with Spain, who are also friends with Sweden. A few turns later Sweden wants to be friends too so I accept, and I have good relations with both.

Some time later, Sweden wants me to declare war on Boudica, who is far away from me so I accept because I think it will boost my friendship with Sweden.

Durning the war period, Sweden and Spain both decide to duo denounce me because they both now see me as a 'warmongering menace to the world'. Not too long after that, both of them double backstab me, so I'm now at war with 3 civs :X

 

[Peacemongerer]

That's not a bug, that's called the AI weight negative mods more than positive ones. The warmongers tend to call you a warmonger the quickest sometimes, and often friendly nations tend to feed eachothers opions of you.

 

[bhavv]

But if I didnt declare on Boudica then I would have had a negative mod with Sweden too, how come declaring at an AI's request and being at war with the same AI gives negative modifiers instead of positive?

 

[Peacemongerer]

I haven't gotten negative modifiers for turn-down requests for war, just for rennegging when I promise to declare war in 10 turns and don't do so.

Sweden probably didn't initiailly get the modifier, but Spain did. Sweden, being friends with Spain moreso than you apparently, took Spain's side and thought you were a warmonger too. The AI tends to denounce you in chunks.

 

[Lyoncet]

Well it's probably not a bug, since I believe that's the intended outcome. Just a feature poorly designed or thought out. Hopefully eventually they'll correct it so you no longer get diplo hits with a civ for doing exactly what that civ asks you to do.

 

[Vatras]

I did not have that happen. I declared 10 turns later as promised war on the common enemy (my friends were William and Theodora, who both urged me to go to war), and relations stayed good. Only France, far away, not involved and seen once by my scouts, immediately denounced me

Our opponent, England, became neutral after the war, not even guarded.

Makes me wonder, if longlasting good relations are now taken into account?