I also have a question about bribed wars, which have been discussed in main patch thread. Because of the annoying habit of being declared on by all civs, myself like others have decided to turn the thing of until it makes sense again like in previous patches. Unfortunately, my install of coommunity patch got corrupted, so reinstalled it, but forgot to turn off brokered wars in my current game. Playing as the Huns I was attacked my nearly the whole world early on, except for Aztecs & Inca's who was behind it, despite not knowing where any of them were situated, & all nowhere near me. Later around Medieval/Rennaisance era they have done it again, except for the annoying Inca behind it, who wont be around much longer when the effects of his Great Wall die off.
The question I have is that the AI is forming all these pacts, & bribing everyone to war, but for the life of me are unable to do either of these things, whoever I play, & how well or not I am doing. Here for instance only 4th in score, last in techs, 4th in army, though empire large. Is it coded so the player cannot gain pacts or broker wars. Even gaining a DOF has been impossible since early on.