Not crazy about denouncement mechanic

[beorn]

Okay, so Japan denounced me, and sent lots of troops to my border. No problem. Then he started sending missionaries to my cities, and I demanded that he stop. He promised not to but did not stop.

So I went to denounce him, and found I could not. Option not there. Hmmm, maybe because he already denounced me? No idea really. But there is an option for causus belli, to declare war formally... Okay, I wait one turn to finish the encampment.

Next turn, the causus belli has disappeared, all I can do is declare a surprise war. But now I can denounce him.

I can't imagine the rule that would legitimately explain this. I suppose his denouncing me expired that turn -- but that rule would be having a ridiculous result. You should always be able to denounce, even if it is, for the moment, superfluous.

 

[Allaka12]

As I understand it when you get denounced the game interprets it as you denouncing the guy as well

 

[beorn]

I have no problem with that, except that, as it turns out, that can expire unexpectedly, so if you say "OK, I want to attack in 5 turns so I'll denounce now" you can't denounce because it would be a duplicate... but 5 turns later you can't declare formal war because it expired. Seems to me this needs to be thought out.