MPP's

[rbis4rbb]

Do you ever sign Mutual Protection Pacts? I used to, but the AI always seems to get involved in stupid wars and entagling me in a web of trade embargoes and the like. What about you guys?

 

[smackster]

Don't sign them, there is so little chance it will work the way you want.

 

[Roi du Culture]

I like to keep my reputation virtually spotless, and MPP's make this impossible.

 

[Kalach]

The MPP's always seem to cause a lot of trouble. I only use specific civ alliances - even those lead to world war, but you keep a good reputation

 

[The Last Conformist]

The chief use of MPPs is causing trouble. Nothing like a three-way free-for-all world war for generally messing the AI's up.

 

[Trev]

Only occasionally, like if someone lands a heap of units on my land by boat, I may sign one with the same civ he has a mpp with, this makes sure if he initiates the attack they have to side with me, not them

 

[Culak]

I agree with Trev, sometimes I do it even after a civ declared war on me... As it was the case in my actual game: I was in the middle of the industrial age (a period where I prefer to complete my railroad network and the "industrialation" of my cities than to wage wars), but the Portugese sneak-attacked violtating a ROP and taked one of my weakly defended city... BUT they had a MPP with the Ottomans (who where also my neighbor and had a huge army of (their UUs) Sipahis. If I directly striked back, the Ottomans would have attacked me and would certainly have made a lot of havoc. But in that special case the solution is simple : I also signed a MPP with the Ottomans, I did not attack the Portugese during this turn (I just put the bigger ganisons I could in the cities near the border) and of course I put a defendless worker just next to a Portugese riffleman... As expected they captured the worker, the ottomans declared war to them, and the portugese were wiped out in a few turns (I took as many cities as I could, just to avoid to let the ottoman empire growth to much)... I know it is a "classical method" but In that kinds of situations signing a MPP is very powerful and is almost the only thing doable...