Another level of victory and defeat?

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I´ve had a very frustrating experience. While playing the GC with Sweden, I eventually came in a position where I felt I needed to beat France a bit. Since I was nice enough to attack at a moment when a lot of nations where making war against France and her colonies, I quite easy captured whole of France, that is, all of it´s coreprovinces. Now, France wanted peace, and offered me 3 of her provinces, although, didn´t accept my peace offer containing the 3 provinces I wanted, Calais, Picarde and Caux. I´ve found out while waging war against other nations, they might offer 3 provinces, but if I myself want to choose I often have to try different constellations before finding one that is accepted. This can extend the war further with several months, which can be quite annoying. Now, although France had a lot of colonies left, I had burnt some tradingposts and had some colonies under siege. In this stage of the war, shouldn´t France be real eager to end the war at any costs?
Maybe there should be another level of victory/defeat? You have 6 stars as a total defeat, and 7 stars when a country can be annexed. Maybe a total victory should be 8 stars, with 6 stars being a overwhelming victory. In those cases, a 6 star win would give a situation where you can negotiate yourself to what colonies you might get, while in a 8 star win, you´ve really got them and are quite free to ask or whatever you want. 9 stars would then mean annexing.
Sounds like a good idea?

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'De skola fäkta när jag befaller dem!'
'They will fight when I command them to!'
Carolus Rex, Perevolotjna 1709

 

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I was in the same case , and against France too. All their trading posts burned, all the colonies taken, and most of the metropoli's provinces too or under heavy siege.
I only wanted Lyonnais but they offered me three other provinces that didn't have any interest to me. So I had to wage three chained-wars till finally I get Lyonnais.

In fact I almost conquered the whole France and destroyed all their armies and navy when I only wanted to capture a strategic province to reach Flandes by land.

I agree . It would be wonderful that the A.I. had a solution in these cases.


p.d. This GAME is great. Keep on the way guys.

 

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I hear you, guys... On the other hand, it is good that the computer seems to be more attached to its richest provinces (or am I just imagining things?), but sometimes it's just plain irritating. You want one medium-sized, salt-producing province which happens to be in a very important position strategically, and you have to go and take over 2 other provinces PLUS the capital to get it...