[tbontob]

Yes, I think the AI is kinda lacking in that regard.

In real life, a weaker nation usually adjusts itself to the stronger nation...especially if it is receiving a benefit.

For example, if I my empire produces 3 times the resources of the neutral (say 60,000 vs 20,000)have a trade treaty with a Neutral and it reaches 20%, then the benefit I recieve is only 4,000 (20%x20,000) vs the benefit the neutal recieves of 12,000 (20%x60,000).

But it gets worse, the neutral now needs to produces less because half of its resourses come from my empire, so I eventually receive only about 1,000 while giving 12,000.

So the benefit to the stronger empire can be piddling compared to the benefit received by the neutral...yet they will always go to war...to face almost certain destruction.