AI now like to drag in a winning war too much?

[ahyangyi]

This happened to me a few times: France, Spain or Portugal DoWs on me (Tunisia). They want nothing but one or two provinces. Yet they don't want to conclude the war after getting enough warscore. Instead, they tend to drag the war and waste their manpower in the Sahara sieging my desert/scorched earth/desert warrior(national idea) provinces.

It seems that this is caused by the huge "relative strength of alliances". But this is stupid. The AI already got all it wants, why does it still keep sieging me, just because they are stronger?

 

[ahyangyi]

For my sanity I just assumed that they want to tear my country apart by making my war exhaustion high, which makes sense. But I still wish they are somewhat more rational...

(Spain and Portugal rivaled me, maybe that changed something?)

 

[Lord Finnish]

I find that allies in a lost war hang out far too long. It takes way too long to get a white peace from an ally when the warleader has been destroyed months, even years ago. Allies should get "we have lost the war" modifier when the warleader has been thrown through the event horizon of asskicking.

 

[ahyangyi]

Hmm. You make me think about another possibility: maybe they wanted to get something from my allies, that is Ottomans...
That said, I have no way to check what they want from Ottomans

 

[hashinshin]

i keep trying to play Ethiopeia and the same thing keeps happening:

Random Saudi nations keep allying Indian nations and forcing me to drag EVERY war out because of high low warscore gains. The Indian nations don't even join the fight, they just sit there and go "nono that battle was only worth half as much because I'm glaring at you from across the seas."

 

[IIWW]

i keep trying to play Ethiopeia and the same thing keeps happening:

Random Saudi nations keep allying Indian nations and forcing me to drag EVERY war out because of high low warscore gains. The Indian nations don't even join the fight, they just sit there and go "nono that battle was only worth half as much because I'm glaring at you from across the seas."

Playing in the same region, as Kilwa, and I have the same issue. just wait there, make some tea, cause the war is long over, yet I still can't annex fully occupied country.

 

[Deuterium Dawn]

the warleader has been thrown through the event horizon of asskicking.

Nice phrasing. I did notice on my end that it took my ally Portugal quite some time(6 years) to tire of repeatedly and illogically throwing 5 stacks at the French instead of joining me in the mountains of Navara/Aragon, whereas before they would have peaced out pretty quickly. I noticed to a lesser extent as Brandenburg, normally allies tend to peace out of there's been heavy fighting and it's taking a while to 100% someone, but after smashing hungary, livonia and I can't recall who else, they stuck it out.

 

[ahyangyi]

Playing in the same region, as Kilwa, and I have the same issue. just wait there, make some tea, cause the war is long over, yet I still can't annex fully occupied country.

It's not an "issue". It's a feature. You have to wait for 5 years or go fight its allies for warscore.

This is not to say the 5 year number is balanced or good for gameplay. But it's at least intended behavior, with some unintended consequences.

 

[StatikShocker]

I've just been refusing to lose wars in this patch. You can almost always win if you try hard enough, with loan and merc spam, outsmarting the A.I.

usually its smarter to just lose a war here and there if you get attacked by overwhelming force. but I'm not willing to be sieged out by Spain for 35 years.

Finally stack wiping 70k Spanish as an Indian tech Somali nation... satisfaction

 

[IIWW]

It's not an "issue". It's a feature. You have to wait for 5 years or go fight its allies for warscore.

This is not to say the 5 year number is balanced or good for gameplay. But it's at least intended behavior, with some unintended consequences.

I know. The second part of Your post is what I intended. Or, in other words, I'm complaining over an issue, not over a bug