Does the AI ever form Catholic Italy?

[Mindel]

It seems that Catholic AIs never attempt to take Rome, at least in any game I've ever seen. This naturally precludes them from ever forming Italy. Is this WAD?

 

[ArtFart]

You get a heavy debuff with the papacy and other catholic nations if you take Rome. so yes, it's WAD.

 

[svalan_i_dalen]

Italy was unified after the games end date. I think it is more of an option for the player than something AI should try to do.

 

[Republic of Mercury]

You get a heavy debuff with the papacy and other catholic nations if you take Rome. so yes, it's WAD.

Not if you're Italy, you don't.

 

[Nostalgium]

Not if you're Italy, you don't.

That's likely the issue then. AI will see that it gets the penalty, but can't plan ahead to realize that it'll drop. I feel like it might be an idea for the Italians' AI to be tweaked so they will ignore the diplo malus if, and only if, Rome is the last province they need to tagswitch. Happens rarely enough as it is, Catholic or Protestant.

 

[Aloraand]

I'm playing with xorme ai on very hard, but there is a nice Tuscany which has conquered rome, released the pope as an opm with just rome and then vasalized the pope in next war. Not sure if/when they will integrate them.

Actually pope had a wild game, where they conquered provence, then lost everything but rome, then austria added them to the hre as florence didn't leave, they then became an opm elector, then florence became Tuscany and did its thing.

 

[Mindel]

That's likely the issue then. AI will see that it gets the penalty, but can't plan ahead to realize that it'll drop. I feel like it might be an idea for the Italians' AI to be tweaked so they will ignore the diplo malus if, and only if, Rome is the last province they need to tagswitch. Happens rarely enough as it is, Catholic or Protestant.

This, indeed, was the question I was asking in this thread.