Italy and Romania starting useless wars in WW1

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It's WW1, and I, as Germany, have quickly dealt with France and Great Britain in Autumn 1914. By Spring 1915, Serbia is in the general retreat, soon to be annexed, while a major offensive operation is taking place in Russia. Still, even without a backup of France and Great Britain, Italy refuses the Austria concession and declares a futile war.

It's 1916, and Russia has lost most of it's army in a giant pocket in Poland. The Petrograd has fallen. A Kerensky comes into power. And to celebrate that, few days later Romania declares war on the Central Powers.

My point is, the Italy and Romania entry into the war are too strictly scripted. Italy would never have entered the war if France would have been defeated by 1914. Romania entry of war was encouraged by a massive Brusilov offensive, that dealt a massive blow to Austria. With Russia badly loosing, it would have stayed neutral.

Can we hope that these issues will be looked at in the comming patch. Because as of now, Italy and Romania entry into the war when CP victory is allready assured only benefits the player playing as Germany or Austria.
 
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In all my games I've only ever seen Romania jump into the war a handful of times, and they were all when the Entente was doing very well. I think Romania is scripted to join when the Russians take certain provinces from Austria in Galicia, so a rogue division wandering around could trigger that.

Italy is very tightly scripted to join the entente though, indeed.
 

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In all my games I've only ever seen Romania jump into the war a handful of times, and they were all when the Entente was doing very well. I think Romania is scripted to join when the Russians take certain provinces from Austria in Galicia, so a rogue division wandering around could trigger that.
Yes, that's correct.
Italy is very tightly scripted to join the entente though, indeed.
But only if France is not controlled by CP and France has not surrendered yet.
 

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When Romania entered war, it was but a lone province in the middle of nowhere with no troops presence in Russia hand, the remnant of a pocket that I took out, but didn't bother to take the province do to low infrastructure and nether did Austrians. I think the trigger could be a little bit less sensitive. Maybe require for the Russians to control at least several provinces, or control a set number of divisions in the defined provinces.

A good way to solve a problem would be to create a decision for Russia to invite Romania into the war, with the predefined requirements that wouldn't be very easy to reach (as in RL the king was pro-german and it took a successful operation of Brusilov to convince the government to join).