[Baron Munchausen]

The 'grant independence' option was added due to my prodding on the old eGroups/Yahoo Groups SE4 discussion list before anything was officially released. Unfortunately it seems never to have been implemented like so many other things. I'd be thrilled to see the AI just use the same options it used to use in SE III, like demand surrender, demand tribute, request help against another empire, etc. This would make the game much more lively and interesting. I've only seen the AI demand surrender ONCE in many, many games.