AI Alliance-Making

[Von Graff]

Quick question - I've been playing for a couple of decades and I've noticed that the alliance I've formed with a neighbor is the only alliance I can find in the world. People who I feel should be allies (dukes in the same kingdom with <26 opinion of each other w/ marriage ties) are content to sit on their NAP while everything in the kingdom goes to shambles.

What determines the AI's willingness to make an alliance? Furthermore, how can I mod it if I want to push the AI to make more alliances?

(Using HIP of course)

 

[Rylock]

What determines the AI's willingness to make an alliance?

Nobody knows.

Furthermore, how can I mod it if I want to push the AI to make more alliances?

You can't, short of perhaps creating decisions/events that force the AI into alliances.

 

[Von Graff]

 

[Azarias59]

I know, I was sad when I found out too.

 

[zijistark]

TBH, the AI being unwilling to entangle itself in alliances which imply *involuntary* call-to-arms is a pretty good thing IMHO. The issue of ridiculous amounts of simultaneously ongoing wars, esp. for independent realms, due chiefly to such entangling alliances even as they are is not a small one. Also, the AI is weighting alliances so as to hold-out for the few possible alliances in which they actually have a common military interest with the other ruler.