Advice on How to Proceed After a Bugged War Resolution?

[Jahasrad]

This is my first real attempt at playing a game of EU3 and I'm playing as Japan with the DW expansion.

I got embroiled in a colonial war between Denmark and Castille, I had warned Castille not to go to war and I became the war leader when I declared war in Denmark's favor. I've occupied all of Castille's substantial colonial empire in eastern North America, and got my warscore to 99% by taking over all of their land in Spain. I was able to white peace out their allies in the game, but when I demand tribute from them it defaults to them not accepting any offer, even a white peace. But, they are able to send a diplomat to me and offer me just about all of their land in North America and half of their land in North Africa for an infamy gain of 75! All I wanted was a few of their colonies in North America. They have two other wars going and I'm guessing that those wars are interfering with my peace process.

I guess, since this was a bug that was not of my doing, I would be happy with taking the deal and lowering my infamy with the console, but it still feels a little cheap. I also don't want to wait 75+ years to work off the infamy for a bunch of land that I'm not interested in. It's 1775 and I've put a ton of hours into this game and I'm still learning a TON about how the systems work, so I'm not quite ready to start a new game and up the difficulty.

Any advice?

 

[smellymummy]

how about offering them peace, where it says 'their country will be destabilized if they refuse' along with the 'they will refuse this offer'. each time they refuse they get a -1 stab hit. do that until they are -3 stab, then offer them the deal you want

 

[Jahasrad]

Okay. They were already at -3 stability, but it took me two diplomats and they finally accepted my deal. I was just thrown because the few pieces of land that I was asking for was in their offered peace package. I learned another new thing. Thanks!

 

[Nim2]

Don't even think about taking that 75 infamy deal. You don't want to break the infamy limit in DW at all, the nasty events following will kill you.

 

[brifbates]

Okay. They were already at -3 stability, but it took me two diplomats and they finally accepted my deal. I was just thrown because the few pieces of land that I was asking for was in their offered peace package. I learned another new thing. Thanks!

The ai will offer worse peace deals than they will accept if you offer them when they are badly defeated. It is usually a bad idea to accept them against larger nations as they almost always offer too much territory, the wrong territory, etc instead of things a sane person would want.

 

[KPJ]

I call this the AI being passive-aggressive...
"If you're gonna beat me I'm gonna show my black eye all over Europe!"