Japan's been defeated, yet they declare war on us a month later

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So friend and I are playing as UK and USA respectively and fighting WW2 against the Axis, well we defeat them and force them to change governments and all that but then as we're getting ready to build up our forces again to prepare for war with the Soviet Union Japan declares war on my friend. You would think that after just having been invaded and forced to surrender they wouldn't go to war again within a month or 2.
 

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AI: Buuut, the focus tree says "go to war" so we go to war..

This happens because there aren't enough checks on some focuses (like Japan being democratic). Better yet, Japan being defeated should give them a national spirit that prevents them from ever going to war again (actually historical).
 
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Many of the problems stem from playing beyond the end of “the war.” Many of us are looking for extended game play (I know I am), and the focus trees struggle to support that without behavior like this.
 

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You think the Samurai surrender? Samurai does not surrender. Samurai gathers his strength, and then HE STRIKES.

玉砕! Death to the Player and his colonialist armies!
 

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AI: Buuut, the focus tree says "go to war" so we go to war..
Me: And if the focus tree told you to jump from a bridge would you do it?
AI: The focus tree says I have to jump from a bridge ?!
(AI leaves in hurry and heads for the nearest bridge, on the way there he still has time to Dow the Low Countries before finishing Poland )
 

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The opposite happened in my current game. Japan attacked USA, per historical foci. Allies invade Japan. War ends, Japan forced to become democratic. 6 months later USA declares war on Japan and invades again.
 

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I think this thread should be moved to the bug reports sub forum. I also noticed, that focus trees with war goals don't have enough checks for their war goals. Your example is a good example for that. Last time I saw that was with Hungary, who are were getting a war goal to Yugoslavia, because of the focus tree events, although Yugoslavia was in the same faction at that time.
 

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I usually get Democratic Germany declaring on ex-axis member who are now democratic after the surrender.
And often it is declaring that while the target is a member of allies, so they get pretty brutally crushed.