The Open Borders Renewal Failure

[Oddible]

Am I missing something in regards to Open Borders agreements? When they expire, the game automatically ejects me from the country at which point I can renew my Open Borders agreement and walk back in. This is a huge fiasco. It just happened that I had a defensive pact with a country, the country was attacked, I brought all my units into their nation to help defend against the attacker, two turns later after I've carefully placed all my units my OB ends and they all go back home, leaving the country defenseless. This is stupid. Is there a way I can renew this before it expires?

 

[asmartlittleman]

I don't think so they should probably fix this because in your situation it could hurt your chances of defending that civ well.

 

[spider1]

The situation actually happened to me once as well. There should be a warning issued, say a few turns or so before the agreement expires giving both parties a chance to renew it before it expires.

 

[UWHabs]

The situation actually happened to me once as well. There should be a warning issued, say a few turns or so before the agreement expires giving both parties a chance to renew it before it expires.

Either it should be like before, where it's indefinitely long, or it should pop up and ask to renew (if they still want it).

 

[Oddible]

Perhaps a programmatically easier way would be to have the OB expire DURING the player turn rather than between turns. If it isn't renewed, it ejects the player on the next between turns phase.

 

[OmegaKabob]

Wow, that sucks. I wish they made everlasting DOF's and Open Borders and you could just cut them when you don't want it anymore.

 

[TopGearFanatic]

I'm willing to wager that when you ask for open borders with your army in their territory, they'll say no, because the Friendly AI thinks you're going to attack it instead of the aggressive AI.

 

[Oddible]

Yeah, that stuff pisses me off about the AI in CivV. I have a friendship and a defensive pact with Persia for ages. They go to war vs Russia and are failing miserably and losing cities so I attack Russia, sue for peace saving Persia and giving their cities back to them. Then Russia denounces me and Persia will no longer accept friend requests and won't sign a defensive pact anymore. /sigh Makes me want to turn from my cultural ways and just take all their cities.