So, I'm wondering if we should not get slightly more control over allied City States? I have a couple ideas for what this could be.
First, you should be able to request that a city state not declare permanent war if you are allied with it. This would be useful if you are playing a peaceful game and avoiding war but are still powerful enough to make demands of the A.I. Recently I was playing Egypt on a small Continents on King standard length and was friends with almost all the C.S. I hadn't been to war at all and anytime an A.I declared on a C.S I requested they stop and they listened every time until a Culture C.S declared perma-war on Songhai. This removed any options to keep the C.S except declare war and even though I had a strong military, in the Demographics his number was close to double mine own and I could see through Caravel flybys that he had me at least matched with military techs. This made me think that it would have been nice to request the C.S refrain from Perma-war so I could use my diplomatic friendliness to keep requesting Songhai not war with my Allies.
Second, you should be able to request better military action from a C.S. Currently they declare on your behalf but I've rarely seen them be of any use. I'm not entirely sure how they could work this, but my basic idea would be you request a C.S military unit hold a certain tile on the map. The C.S then sends the requested unit and fortifies itself on that requested tile. This could be useful if you want to block an enemy army from a certain location, among other possible uses. I'm not saying like the Denmark scenario where you completely control an allied C.S army, just have slightly more control.
I'm not sure about how this would work with balance etc. But if its off-balancing then an idea to help is to have the C.S response be a chance based on a die roll that has to do with C.S Personality i.e a Irrational C.S has a 33% chance of agreeing, a friendly C.S has a 50% chance etc.
Anyway, just some Ideas I've had while playing. What are other Ideas?
First, you should be able to request that a city state not declare permanent war if you are allied with it. This would be useful if you are playing a peaceful game and avoiding war but are still powerful enough to make demands of the A.I. Recently I was playing Egypt on a small Continents on King standard length and was friends with almost all the C.S. I hadn't been to war at all and anytime an A.I declared on a C.S I requested they stop and they listened every time until a Culture C.S declared perma-war on Songhai. This removed any options to keep the C.S except declare war and even though I had a strong military, in the Demographics his number was close to double mine own and I could see through Caravel flybys that he had me at least matched with military techs. This made me think that it would have been nice to request the C.S refrain from Perma-war so I could use my diplomatic friendliness to keep requesting Songhai not war with my Allies.
Second, you should be able to request better military action from a C.S. Currently they declare on your behalf but I've rarely seen them be of any use. I'm not entirely sure how they could work this, but my basic idea would be you request a C.S military unit hold a certain tile on the map. The C.S then sends the requested unit and fortifies itself on that requested tile. This could be useful if you want to block an enemy army from a certain location, among other possible uses. I'm not saying like the Denmark scenario where you completely control an allied C.S army, just have slightly more control.
I'm not sure about how this would work with balance etc. But if its off-balancing then an idea to help is to have the C.S response be a chance based on a die roll that has to do with C.S Personality i.e a Irrational C.S has a 33% chance of agreeing, a friendly C.S has a 50% chance etc.
Anyway, just some Ideas I've had while playing. What are other Ideas?
