Steal workers from CS, still remain good relation with AI?

[dukedike]

I love to steal one or two workers from CS. There is no problem if I plan for going to war with AIs but for peaceful strategy, we go for tradition, no free worker steal some worker is help a lot in early game. I notice that if I steal worker from CS, the AIs that I've met always think I am warmonger although they have not met those CS yet. After that they DoW on me. I think I have seen one or two LPs in peaceful deity game which stealing worker but no Al DoW. How to?

 

[FeiLing]

I think it's still "1 free dow" (it's not really free, you still get the negative modifiers, but 1 dow isn't enough to get warmonger status with all other civs).

Steal one worker and you're fine (unless there's someone like Siam who'll hate you anyway for declaring on a CS). So only 1 worker steal per game in a peaceful game. And also no dow to major civs allowed then as any additional dow might cause the warmongering opinion of yours.

 

[dukedike]

I think it's still "1 free dow" (it's not really free, you still get the negative modifiers, but 1 dow isn't enough to get warmonger status with all other civs).

Steal one worker and you're fine (unless there's someone like Siam who'll hate you anyway for declaring on a CS). So only 1 worker steal per game in a peaceful game. And also no dow to major civs allowed then as any additional dow might cause the warmongering opinion of yours.

In my understanding, if I have not met any of AI yet( the situation likely on Archipelago) I can steal more than one worker from CSs without penalty modifier right?

 

[Putmalk]

In my understanding, if I have not met any of AI yet( the situation likely on Archipelago) I can steal more than one worker from CSs without penalty modifier right?

Yup, that's right.

 

[Froze]

Although it's one free DoW, but that's not necessarily just one worker. No reason why you can't DoW and then just leave yourself at war with them for turns, picking off workers and getting exp over time.