Tell Nubia 'We cannot commit to relationship' - bugged

[HiRezAudio]

The situation is that I am waiting for a causus Belli against Nubia (they are a PITA) and because 'stop asking me' simply does not work when they keep pestering me for friendship I clicked instead on "we cannot commit to a formal relationship at this time" - but this had the very unexpected effect of causing a friendship with them instead!!
I have had to reload the game to get around this nasty bug.
Will do save files when I get to this point again.

EDIT.
Save file will not be available now - I denounced them instead, hoping to get a Bannockburn "war of liberation" instead....

 

[Browd]

You can dig back for an autosave file from before the event and post the autosave.

 

[PiR]

I personnally set the autosave to each turn just for that kind of event.

 

[Browd]

Yep. I set autosave every turn, max 500 autosaves kept. (Disk storage is cheap, cheap, cheap, so why not?)

 

[Finvola]

I reported this bug to tech support a few days ago, well two bugs but both to do with friendship declarations. If you tell them you can't commit, it makes you a declared friend anyway and if you tell them to stop asking, they keep asking anyway. Which reminds me, they asked me to provide two more things in the bug report which I'll do tomorrow. I sent a save file and a video clip of both types of friendship bugs. I have to send them a log or something I guess.

I've mostly been playing warmongers because they won't stop asking, so my workaround for now is to make everybody hate me so they don't ask. Not answering/hitting escape will just make them keep asking too.

 

[HiRezAudio]

You can dig back for an autosave file from before the event and post the autosave.

Yes - I realise this (I did say I had to reload the game)

 

[HiRezAudio]

I reported this bug to tech support a few days ago, well two bugs but both to do with friendship declarations. If you tell them you can't commit, it makes you a declared friend anyway and if you tell them to stop asking, they keep asking anyway. Which reminds me, they asked me to provide two more things in the bug report which I'll do tomorrow. I sent a save file and a video clip of both types of friendship bugs. I have to send them a log or something I guess.

That sounds like 2K to me - ever since they took over the Golf game I play (PGA Tour 2K21) it has been a buggy nightmare as well and just like in your report, all they ever do is ask for ever more information 'so that they can escalate the problem' and the end result is always the same - on PS4, they constantly tell me to 'clear the cache' which is nonsense as the PS4 ain't got one, and anything that could have been cached is wiped when the console is shut down. 2K blame Sony for all problems who in turn blame 2K and round & round we go. It seems to be the same now with Civ6, which is unplayable on the PS4 because of post 200 turn crashing all the time on all maps of standard size or bigger (someone described this as like Groundhog Day with all the constant replaying of turns after a crash during the turn cycle) and it looks like the Steam version is getting the same amount of love & attention - never mind fixing the bugs, let's pump out some more DLC and add even more bugs in the process, none of which will ever get fixed properly. Apologies if this sounds cynical but I lose track of the money I have put into this game and we get cheated something rotten with all the incessant bugs, I suspect being caused by the piecemeal updates this year. Don't get me wrong the NFP has introduced some fun stuff but a hell of a lot of bugs as well.

I've mostly been playing warmongers because they won't stop asking, so my workaround for now is to make everybody hate me so they don't ask. Not answering/hitting escape will just make them keep asking too.

Me too. What's the point of flying any other way - even if you remain declared friends all through the game with a neighbour and don't do anything against them you can pretty much guarantee a good back stabbing at some point, yet they never seem to get any penalties for this - but I do if I defend myself. Ah well - the grievances system is utterly broken anyway.