I think game should be keeping track how many times you have cheated AI or broken an alliance. Everybody would see them, and everyone would react to them. Maybe exponential increase in the effect after more bad things are made. Ideally, this would effect most powerful to the AI you acted against, more than normal to his allies, and less than normal to those that are in war against him. This would need much bookkiining, so having same effect to all nations would be enough.
'Cheating' I mentioned before, is assasinations with Gateway/CoWild/Wind attacks/sneaky forces which destroy big armies, MW or FFtS, and global enchantments harmful to all others.
Too much power should maybe lower relationships with all nations, or make them harder to rise, because you can more easily destroy them and they are REALLY nervous. Heck, they want to be like Zeus, over-god of his pantheon, not like Hermes, his postman.
Please, someone, speculate how would things go bad with this thing; how would you abuse this.
Oh, and I think there should be no 'you are a heretic, but you can go through my lands'. And, it shouldn't be possible to give away provinces. Atleast not those in which people don't believe to the pretender you are giving the province. This is simply because even if you had no armies in there, other player would have to conquer the province, because the people would not want to change sides.
I hope this makes sense to someone,
and please forgive me for editing these Posts all the time. It seems I cannot force myself to press that Preview msg button... Lazy me
[ October 18, 2003, 17:58: Message edited by: Endoperez ]