In EUIV, it happens sometimes that you have a message saying your allies are about to drop you, usually because you became too weak for them, you claimed territories they claim or you rivaled their allies. This message tells you their reasoning, to which you can respond or despair.
Although this feature isn't that pleasant to see on your screen, I love it, because it gives us a chance to interact with the AI reasoning outside of a deadly war.
I wonder if this mechanic could be used in other contexts. The main context I have in mind is when the AI is in a war with us and is about to drop out of the war, but any other time would be interesting too.
Maybe I could "express my interest" for a royal marriage, and when the AI would be willing to do it, an alert would pop out, instead of me frantically checking if they want each other month.
With a greater use of this mechanic, maybe we could use favors to prolong the time when the ally would be at war on our side. Maybe not ten a favors at a time, but 1 month per favor could do it, so you would know ecatly when an ally will bail out. It would be like them threatening you to leave a war. They could use it on us humans too, and crossing them by making a separate peace while under that spell would anger them even more than if they didn't use favors to encourage us to stay at war.
Another possible use : give the occupation. You could, for a smal favor cost, make them hand over provinces, or ask them to anyway.
There was a DD some time ago about favors. Those are the kind of things I would like to see as follow up.
Although this feature isn't that pleasant to see on your screen, I love it, because it gives us a chance to interact with the AI reasoning outside of a deadly war.
I wonder if this mechanic could be used in other contexts. The main context I have in mind is when the AI is in a war with us and is about to drop out of the war, but any other time would be interesting too.
Maybe I could "express my interest" for a royal marriage, and when the AI would be willing to do it, an alert would pop out, instead of me frantically checking if they want each other month.
With a greater use of this mechanic, maybe we could use favors to prolong the time when the ally would be at war on our side. Maybe not ten a favors at a time, but 1 month per favor could do it, so you would know ecatly when an ally will bail out. It would be like them threatening you to leave a war. They could use it on us humans too, and crossing them by making a separate peace while under that spell would anger them even more than if they didn't use favors to encourage us to stay at war.
Another possible use : give the occupation. You could, for a smal favor cost, make them hand over provinces, or ask them to anyway.
There was a DD some time ago about favors. Those are the kind of things I would like to see as follow up.
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