[Baron Munchausen]

Originally posted by 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

And how many races can be setup to trigger on tribute requests? One. Next you'll have to use another message type like want a gift. Then you'll have to use another message type for another empire and you'll soon have various diplomatic message committed to 'special effects' just like we have various abilities committed to special effects. It is just like the unintended use of abilities and it will cause the same sort of confusion when the unused features are implemented.