I love this game

[Norfleet]

Hey, it's not like I actually sit down and try to count the number of times that particular AI declares war on me, since I always tend to play on fully populated maps with all 17 nations, which turns the declaring-war scene into a giant furball. That, and there's my policy of indiscriminate gratuitous violence. Even in games with actual diplomacy, I rarely make use of it because I find that AIs generally cannot be reasoned with, or at least certainly not at a cost which would be less than simply delivering an asskicking.

[General Tacticus]

But you can reason with the AI ! Usually on the lines of : "Look what a huge army I have on our common border, why don't you go beat up someone else for a while ?". The AI is fairly good at picking those hints.

As to why I don't use that army to attack the AI, the answer is usually that all my economy is neede in beating the other AI on the other side, and I can't spare the resources to expand elsewhere at the moment.

[Bowlingballhead]

I like the idea of feeding the computer pointless, even self-defeating magical items. Can I make him put fever fetishes on his commanders?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by General Tacticus:
As to why I don't use that army to attack the AI, the answer is usually that all my economy is neede in beating the other AI on the other side, and I can't spare the resources to expand elsewhere at the moment.

You can spare the resources to have a huge army that simply sits there and eats food and drinks beer, but you can't spare the resources to use it? Wouldn't that mean that the area you're sitting that huge army in is a fairly open one, and therefore, most of your border is exposed anyway?

[Norfleet]

Originally posted by Bowlingballhead:
I like the idea of feeding the computer pointless, even self-defeating magical items. Can I make him put fever fetishes on his commanders?

Hmm. Never made him put a fever fetish on his commander, but I managed to get him to stick two magical eyes on his god once.