That's interesting - in my few games post-patch, I've noticed the diplo approach more... maybe because it would come up earlier. No hint of cultural victories.
I just downloaded it and am set for tomorrow. Given the mod's title, did you also customize the different civs to better emulate your impression of their leader?
The AI currently will swap to Diplo more towards endgame, but given many of the other values Diplo had in place, this usually meant the person going for victory had not been gathering up CSes properly beforehand. Ideally, this will make the AI better at the choice as it will be more focused on it.
I have not tweaked the leader values too much yet. This will probably happen in the next round of changes after the initial alpha. I did not want to throw it in off the bat, because then I would not be able to properly tell if more culture approaches were due to the leader flavors or due to the grand strategies.
Fantastic idea, all the changes look great, hope they run well!Another change which I think would help would be to decrease the AI's warmonger hate in cases where you were asked to declare war or declare war on one of their enemies'/ targets. Also to slightly decrease the hate you get from wiping out civs entirely. It's quite ridiculous atm that if an AI asks you to attack an enemy and you manage to qipe that enemy out, that very same AI now hates you!
I am definitely looking into this! Many of the AI variables are poorly labeled, and honestly I think specific values for a lot of the scenarios you mentioned do not exist. However, thanks to the increase in the DoF values, ideally the AI will be more tolerant of your actions if you are friends first. If you get any playtesting in, let me know what you find in this situation. Thanks for the feedback!
Suggestion:
How about giving certain AI's reluctance to ally with a third party if it already has an ally.
This would create divisions etc. I have seen in a lot of my games a lot of players allying en-masse, creating a massive peaceblock
Will download later, once I've done christmas preperations. You can expect a Mod a la carte on this if you update it a hefty amount.
I will look into that value system. I am not sure if this is within the realm of possibility with the current modtools yet, but if it is, I would certainly like to alter it. One option may be just to increase the negative response for DoFing someone another Friend is hostile to. While it does not directly address the problem, it may in the very least clean it up.
How about reducing the effect of having a friend backstab you? It often leads to chain reactions of denunciation. Also, if possible include a time limit for the offence that an AI player takes form your actions e.g after 50 turns after your last peace treaty they forgot you declared war on them or after 100 turns they forget your past warmongering.
Make denunciations and DoF cancellable? So if you cease denouncing Songhai then their friend America won't continue to take offence (i.e. the negative effect the past denunciation had on your relationship is removed)
Also set a time limit for an AI taking offence over your alliance with a city state (after they are below at 60 influence with it for example)
If you could add those in, it would be great XD
In what way do you mean reducing the friendship backstab? Like the rest of the world won't backstab along with? If so, doable. I can probably alter the AI's war memory as well, though I think the value might actually be 50 turns right now. I will check it out. Making Dofs able to cancel is a bit beyond my capacity at the moment, as it would require a lot of UI editing as well. It is on my longer term list. I am hesitant to change the CS values, because right now protecting a CS is a great way to get yourself into wars where it is someone else's fault. This type of mechanic would need to stay, given the AI will be nicer in other ways.
This sounds great - do the modified aspects of diplomacy help reduce the rampant denunciations? Is there a way to change the threshhold for denunciations?
I'll give this a try when I get home and hopefully get you some feedback later.
Yes and yes. This mod makes denunciations over smaller offenses less likely, and while not directly editing the denounce threshold, it reduces the additive factors that would lead to it. It is a tough line to walk, because I do not want to remove the AI's teeth, but DO want to allow peaceful players a chance at playing a relatively peaceful game if they choose.
