I read in some earlier post or chat w/ Firaxis that they originally wanted to put unit trading in, but in play-testing they found it unworkably unbalancing in that the human player could manipulate the AI civs too easily.
Trading I could see being hard to work out, but giving units to an ally? Even if we never got an offer of units from another civ... ever... it would still be useful and enhance the game.
I remember in SMAC that the AI will immediately give a unit into your city if you are at war and your city is not defended. I always thought that was pretty cool.
Of course the AI need to be changed a little in the sense that if it treated you as good friend it will never betray you. Its not like a small ally of US is going to attack US just because it is getting too large or too powerful right?
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