Was going to buy the game and then!

[Ballbarian]

The way CTP handled most diplomacy was with treaties. "No Trespassing" being one of my favorites. Would stop the enemy from exploring in your territory. Breaking treaties affected your standing with other ai nations in the world as well, but that wouldn't always stop the ai from doing like a human and breaking the treaty if he saw you as weak. I guess a dominions twist on that would be to sign a no trespassing treaty then scout cautiously, because then if your scout is revealed/caught you've just broken your treaty and will find future diplomacy more difficult potentially making your nation the target of all the others.

That's just one example.

[PvK]

I have had just as much fun playing the AI as playing humans (i.e., tons of fun both ways). A really good diplomatic AI the could be interesting, though I've almost never seen a good diplomatic AI (get Chris Crawford...). Better support for scripting scenarios with alliances with AI players could be neat, though.

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[PvK]

Irrelevant declarations of war by remote nations do happen frequently, but if that "ruins the SP game" for someone, I see little hope such players will ever be satisfied. As was said, the scenario is everyone's hostile anyway.

I have seen some remote spells hitting in surprising places, but it never seemed impossible they were scouted, nor to be a major problem - the AI uses them less frequently and less effectively than humans can and often do. Moreover, it's not cheating to fire remote spells randomly at the world. It's not perfect, but where's the problem?

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[Chazar]

Diplomacy is overrated - lets go to war!

I do not understand why "time" is preventing people from playing MP games? Sure, an MP game takes much longer to complete that any single player game, but I think it is kind of healthy to have the MP-brake preventing the just-one-more-turn disease. Its a PBEM-only game for me. This was what I was searching for and why I found my way to Dom2.