Some questions about the AI...

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Cainehill:
I hate to open my newbie yap here, but I don't think it's "for certain". A game I started today, T'ien C'hi declared war before I could even see them on the map. On the other paw, I took either two or three provinces from Ulm without them going all hostile on me.

Just because they failed to counterattack (thus far) does not mean that the Ulm AI does not consider there to be a state of war between you. Ulm may well have been fully preoccupied fighting someone else to pay any attention to you. Furthermore, if you made an opportunistic land grab, and Ulm was distracted by other affairs, they might revert to being at peace with you by the time they could amass a strong enough force to have counterattacked, if you left them alone after that initial attack. Timing matters.

EDIT: if you attack an AI, you will not see an official message saying you are at war. It is presumed you are at war since *you* initiated the hostilities. The fact that AIs do go back to being at peace is one reason some of us have been clamoring for some sort of indication on the list of in-game nations as to which nations we are at war with. Presently, there is no way to know.

[ March 19, 2004, 01:10: Message edited by: Arryn ]