Evil Alliances

[thegeeky1]

Hmph.

Here I am, playing as Helvetia (that actually looks kinda right! Yesssss!). La la la, I'm cheating, taking over Europe, etc. etc. I decide I want a port, so I think about allying with Savoy ( to diplo-annex them, just like I did/ would later do with Baden, Wutemburg, Thruingen, The Platinant, Barvaria, Kleves... and a dynastic inheritance of Hungary! and the forced annexation of Bohemia, Moldovia, Wallachia, Hessen, Genoa...), so I check how long it'll take before the France, Savoy, Pap. States, etc. alliance will expire.
The game says it'll expire in 10 years... exactly. "Darn," I think to myself, "they JUST re-established their alliance!"

3 years later

I'm gonna check the alliance again. And (let's say it's August 7, 1503) it says the alliance will expire in August 1513. "This is freaky," I think some more (I think I like to think...), "they renewed their allinace a few days ago AGAIN."

7 years after the first date.

oh boy. It's Nov 13, 1510. And it says the alliance will expire in Nov 1520.

This is scary.

This went on ('the alliance will expire in 10 years exactly from this date') until 1520. The dates above are fictional, but this DID actually happen for 28 years. What's going on???



eventually the alliance did expire (in 1530) and eventually I did diplo annex Savoy. but this was SO ANNOYING!!!

I re-iterate (which is a fun word!), what was going on? have you ever had this happen to you?

 

[thegeeky1]

This happened once again in the same game...

but this time it wasn't so annoying because it happened with my alliance .

 

[saskganesh]

if one member of the alliance is in a war, then the alliance as a whole get extended another month/every month as long as that war lasts. so sometimes you see these 20-30 year long wars extending alliances for 20-30 years.

 

[thegeeky1]

Thanks!

Ooooh, something new I learned!

 

[Morpheus506]

Activity within an alliance re-renews the alliance for another 10 years. Whenever a war is started, the alliance is extended. That' would be why the alliance kept on and on and on for 28 years.

P.S.: That's a good way to keep your own alliance steady... the month before your alliance expires, declare war on France, Turkey, or whoever is the biggest BB (other than you ) in the world. That way (if all your allies support you) you only use up 1 diplomat rather than 3, 4, 5 or however many other allies you have to keep up the alliance.

 

[unmerged(11600)]

I've often seen the Dutch declare war just days before their alliance would expire. Many was the time my English cursed them, because they were alligned with the Swedes, whom I wanted in my alliance. But as Russia I've only renewed an alliance once, and only because everyone (including me ) dropped out when Austria declared war on Bohemia. After about 20 years unaligned, I started a new alliance with Burgundy, which will never get renewed nor will I ever call on them, at least until I'm ready to annex them...

-Pat

 

[thegeeky1]

Yay! People are actually responding to me!!!

[starstruck] This never happens in any other forum... [/starstruck]

I'll keep all of your tips in my head... war on Turkey, here we come... (my BB, as I last checked: 51. Turkey's: 7. Obviously not at all like present day Helvetia/Switzerland )

 

[thegeeky1]

Only a test...

This is only a test of my sig.

View it (have you noticed that I like to ! ...)

 

[RELee]

And now I know the reason behind the alliance extentions in MY games. Imagine my heartfelt sigh of relief once I realized that this was actually happening to others and that it was NOT a symptom of my old age dementia getting worse.

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