Alliance bug still exists?

[TheDarkside]

From reading the readme for 1.02 I was under the impression they fixed this problem. The problem is the human player cannot create or invite other nations into an alliance unless they share a land border. This goes for island nations, and nations just 10 feet away from sharing a border with you. Is this a new restriction on us or is this truly a bug that has yet to be resolved? I ask because if it is the former I really would like to hear some of the logic behind this... thanks.

 

[Grunthex]

It's NOT there. I've been forming alliances all over the place, no borders at all. Not sure what's up with your game, but this feature is fixed.

 

[Josephus I]

Originally it was a feature. They did this so that the AI won't form crazy alliances like Iroquois and Poland. This was fixed in the 1.02. I think it was, anyways. As Muscovy I did form an alliance with Moldavia who don't border me anywhere. However I did try to form an alliance with Serbia who flatly refused--even if they did have good relations with me. So maybe it just isn't as easy to form alliances now, that's all.

 

[TheDarkside]

Originally posted by Grunthex
It's NOT there. I've been forming alliances all over the place, no borders at all. Not sure what's up with your game, but this feature is fixed.

Hmm maybe I'm just incredibly unnlucky then I wouldnt post this if i got refused with one or two alliances- I seriously must have tried dozens of nations and coincidentally only the ones who border me agree... despite the fact Lithuania had -12 relations, pommeran had +54 relations- yet these nations i ask who dont border me usually have >+150 relations.

 

[Grunthex]

I was going to ask you if you had 1.02, but you mentioned it... make sure it says 1.02 in your top corner of the main menu screen, maybe your patch installed buggy.

As France, I regularly now ally with Portugal, Hungary and Scotland to neutralize my main enemies. As Russia, usually Poland and Denmark. No common borders around.

 

[TheDarkside]

Now that you mention it, I did have some problems getting the patch to install... I'll try a full reinstall once I finish my current game.

Would you happen to know if this rule is still in effect for diplo-annexing?

 

[unmerged(3388)]

One other thing to consider is that the nation you ask to join, also looks at the other nations currently in the alliance and checks its relations with them also. If they are bad it declines.

To be sure you have 1.02 check the top left hand side of the screen once the game has fully loaded and you have the scenario/single player options. You should see a 1.02 (badly displayed)

Cheers, Ice

 

[Sikker]

I too have have version 1.2, and I too have OFTEN times tried having +200 relations with nations who just doesn't want to ally with me. It is VERY annoying! VERY!!!!! For instance playing Denmark I have NEVER been able to ally with anybody but Norway and Sweden.