My first run was on easy as Hamburg, and no matter what I did, there was always at least one great power who was willing to be swayed and fight the war for me.
My second run is on normal as Formosa (Min Taiwan, released from Qing). My early game conquest centered around Indonesia on both runs.
On this second run, with very few exceptions, there is no sway possibility at all. Most of the wars had to be fought on my own.
Of course it makes sense to have to fight your wars yourself, but I'm just wondering if this is due to the difficulty level, or is there some element of racist tendency in the decisions of European powers.
Don't get me wrong, if it's really a racism issue I'm all for it, it's a historical game. I just wonder why things are so different.
I had 50 relationship with Austria and 30 with France, hoping them to help me fight war of recognition against Russia.
They'd have none of it. I had to take on Russia on my own. (which's not so hard considering center of Russia is so far from its own Alaska, which I added as a war goal after seeing no one would join me)
Simple war against Malayan minor (Johore) saw Vietnam and Qing decide to get in my way too.
Both times my infamy was 0 before declaring, so infamy isn't the issue here.
As a little sidetrack flex, I won this 1 vs 3, 26 vs 823 war. Took 5 years and 3 months.
My second run is on normal as Formosa (Min Taiwan, released from Qing). My early game conquest centered around Indonesia on both runs.
On this second run, with very few exceptions, there is no sway possibility at all. Most of the wars had to be fought on my own.
Of course it makes sense to have to fight your wars yourself, but I'm just wondering if this is due to the difficulty level, or is there some element of racist tendency in the decisions of European powers.
Don't get me wrong, if it's really a racism issue I'm all for it, it's a historical game. I just wonder why things are so different.
I had 50 relationship with Austria and 30 with France, hoping them to help me fight war of recognition against Russia.
They'd have none of it. I had to take on Russia on my own. (which's not so hard considering center of Russia is so far from its own Alaska, which I added as a war goal after seeing no one would join me)
Simple war against Malayan minor (Johore) saw Vietnam and Qing decide to get in my way too.
Both times my infamy was 0 before declaring, so infamy isn't the issue here.
As a little sidetrack flex, I won this 1 vs 3, 26 vs 823 war. Took 5 years and 3 months.
