What has caused this?

[Opac]

I was playing on regent as Vikings and started from continent with Babylon,America and Korea. I expanded normally and at 600 b.c i saw american warrior/warrior pair coming towards my city and soon after they declared war on my territory. They was long jungle inbetween us, so they were not a problem and i made peace with them a bit later. Soon i noticed that babs border were right next to me and they seemed to be rather weak, so i gathered archers/horsemans and declared war on them while all my troops were on my territory. I razed about three cities to make space for my cities and prevent cultural flipping and after that they were ready for peace. Few hundred years later i had some new contacts with new civs and i was trying to sell something for per-turn gold deal (with them paying) and my advisor said "They would never accept such deal" and I've no idea why..?

EDIT: I've not done any per turn deals before on this game, so i can not have broken any.

 

[Illustrious]

Probably has something to do with the fact that you razed some Babylonian cities way back when.... The AI tends to be very disapproving of people who raze cities.

You see, burning a city down about people's ears is just not on. It's OK to starve them down to 1 population, and then remove the city by turning that 1 pop into a worker. Or to "starve-and-grow" the city, until there are more citizens of your nationality than theirs, and then abandon it. But razing - no.

It appears that, in Civ-morality, cold-blooded ethnic cleansing is fine, but massacres in the heat of battle are a no-no.

 

[Charis]

It has nothing to do with razing.

"They would never accept such a deal" happens when...

1. You're offering more gpt than your income
2. You're asking more gpt than their income
3. Your offer is ridiculously low
4. You're a liar or a cheat and are trying to pay for hard good (tech, cash) with credit (gpt, lux)

Charis