New Diplomatic Options

[eddie_verdde]

POLITICAL BORDERS:
I suggest this new diplomatic action: Establishment of borders. Through this option, 2 allied countries could permanently redefine its borders regardless of cultural expansion. The treaty would be broken during war, and cultural borders would prevail over "political borders" in such times.


TRADE OF UNITS:
civilizations should be allowed to trade units during negotiations, especially artillery units such as catapults, trebuchets, cannons, etc. Infantry or cavalry units should be regarded as mercenaries, with increased possibility of deserting.



ECOLOGIC ISSUES IN NEGOTIATIONS:
it's imensely frustrating when you do your best to keep your territory free of pollution to prevent global warming and you see that other civs do nothing about it.

Ecology could serve as an argument to declare war on "dirty" civs or as a token during diplomatic negotiations (eg: reduce your pollution by 50% and i'll give you 20 gold per turn)


ARMISTICE (by rhialto)
This is a very nice suggestion. Civilizations could make treaties to disband certain units or to not build them for a given period as a garantee of mutual non-agression. One civilization (eg: the winner of a war) could force another (the defeated) to disband certain units in exchange for peace.

 

[Aussie_Lurker]

Good ideas Eddie. A lot of these have appeared in other posts, but there is no harm in putting these ideas out there again to 'refresh' peoples memories !

I think that, as far as borders go, things should be less absolute. If you have two nations with similar cultures, then border territories become 'disputed'. You can then ask for, or give up, those disputed areas during diplomacy.

Trade of units is a MUST, and I still do not understand why the got rid of it in Civ3 (I know it was exploited in civ2, but it would have been fairly easy to remove the exploits by giving the AI a 'value systems' when determining whether or not to accept units offered to it).

Ecological agreements are also something I would love to see!

Yours,
Aussie_Lurker.

 

[rhialto]

I think one option that should be in diplomatic agreements is to "disband unit X". The obvious application is enforcing a ban on nuclear weapons, but another historical example would be Pope Innocent's ban on crossbows in Europe.