I'm playing a tiny map, 4 civs total, of course. I randomed the landform, and got continents.
Started out with me(randomed India), Egypt, and Babylon on one larger continent, and Greece all alone on a smaller one. Well, to make a long story short, after some maneuvering and sneak attacks by Babylon, all that is left is me on my continent, and Greece on theirs. So, I signed an MPP with Greece, and he's *gracious* now. I have a 4-tech lead and I am two turns from building the tanks/transports/infantry to take him out. Of course an MPP with two factions in the game is perfectly safe.
(Î would do the space race, since he's being so nice, but I want more war experience, and have yet to have a domination victory)
Also, pulled a neat move in the war with Babylon. I had gotten them down to five cities on the end of the continent, and got a great leader. I immediately took him to the city positioned perfectly for an FP, and made it the next turn. That finished Babylon, as all of a sudden, *all* of my cities could produce units quickly, not just the ones at the other end with the palace. He wouldn't talk to me at all for a while after he declared war, but, with one city left, he calls begging for peace. I had a stack of 8 longbows, 2 war elephants, and 6 catapults sitting at the gates of his only city. I wrote Hammurabi a short message: "You chose unwisely. Goodbye." :rocket:
I guess this means I *could* ROP-rape the Greeks when I'm ready, since there's no one to penalize me for it, but I won't. I'll just load about 7-10 transports full of military hardware, position them outside his sea borders, cancel the ROP/MPP one turn, and declare war the next, and land the troops. I know the ROP-rape one-turn war is easy, but I feel like it violates the spirit of the game. Way too cheesy for me. What you do in your own game is your business, but when/if MP ever comes, you can guarantee the first person to do that to me will die screaming in the next game I play with them.
Also, the AI will never do that to you as a planned, calculated move. Maybe some troops will be in your territory by accident if an MPP triggers them to declare war on you, but that's about all.