What about getting into the war to help your allies finished it in a timely fashion?, instead of sitting around waiting for WE to finish you off?? That is supposedly why you have allies - you help them they help you, you know!
When you are a tiny 1-province nation with minimal cash flow, sending the only sizable army you have to help allies with much larger armies than yours, against enemies with much larger armies than yours, in an area where winter comes early and lingers late, is hardly a recipie for ending wars quickly.
If you can’t handle it (the war) they get the fuck out of it!! Sitting around taking 4 loans, all the while doing noting seams stupid to me, like just asking for collapse.
Evidently, you somehow read only half a sentence at a time. I was not doing nothing - I was putting down revolt after revolt. I wanted to avoid a government collapse, and I did not have the armies to put down revolts *and* somehow force a favorable peace against multiple alliances that I had been dragged into war with. I had to pay my enemies off, so I took the loans to get out.
I suppose it could have occurred to me that my allies would be continuously at war, but my previous alliances were generally with small, timid nations, or occurred before the current WE boost
Then pointing fingers at the ‘stupid’ ai (while not doing anything yourself, according to you post) seams rather silly. If it is so stupid, then why are you displeased with the current working of the game/ai. Should be a cakewalk – right?
I guess you missed the whole point of my post. The last patches, at least for me, have merely made the game harder without making it more interesting. This group seems to be dominated by players who merely want more of a challenge. I play to do interesting things, like reviving byzantium, colonizing the new world as kurland, or conqering the golden horde as ireland and imagining what it would be like in real life.
The most recent patches deliberatly set out to make it harder, not in an interesting way, but by kneecapping the player. You spend most of your effort overcoming the difficulties placed upon you. For some players, overcoming difficulties is the whole point, but not for me.
An AI that was more skilled would be part and parcel of the whole process of doing interesting things that are interesting to imagine in a historical sense. In real life, countries would have real limitations, rather than limitations arbitrarily defined. Could you imagine the Venetians, for example, being unable to raise an army half the size of Genoa's, for example, simply because there is some mysterious arbitrary limitation for them? That is what is being placed upon the player. For some, who only want a challenge, that's great. However, as I've said before, I have different interests.
James Fox
