[geoschmo]

I don't see this as the same kind of problem as the abilities. You don't really need to create bogus Messages, as the AI can't diferentiat between Messages anyway, only types of Messages.

It's easy enough to make a race that will get really really ticked at tribute requests for example, but how do you make the other AI send tribute requests more often? Does lowering the score percent in the politics file really control how often those get sent, or is it just a threshold under which they will not get sent?

Definetly bears some testing.

Geoschmo