Why does the AI want me to drag me into war onto a different continent (like NA AUS)

[Suzaku]

When I don't have a navy or so to speak of?

 

[Sweawm]

Well, the AI just assumes if it can call you, then it should. Never mind you'd be no help to it, but allies make negotiating better anyhow (even if all their provinces are occupied, having an ally would still prevent 100% warscore for a few decades)

 

[Comradebot]

Because it's hoping you'll actually get around to finally building a navy (pretty cheap and quick for just transports) or perhaps it hopes you'll be able to deal with any allies on your continent that their enemy might have?

And it'd be a pretty cheesy workaround if all you had to do to avoid getting a call to arms from overseas would be to never build a navy.

 

[Freudia]

Because it's hoping you'll actually get around to finally building a navy (pretty cheap and quick for just transports) or perhaps it hopes you'll be able to deal with any allies on your continent that their enemy might have?

And it'd be a pretty cheesy workaround if all you had to do to avoid getting a call to arms from overseas would be to never build a navy.

I kind of assumed that the OP has no coast, and therefore no capabilities to build a navy.

 

[ahyangyi]

But... technically there's nothing preventing someone from buying a fleet, getting a fleet basing port, and moving troops around.

 

[Freudia]

But... technically there's nothing preventing someone from buying a fleet, getting a fleet basing port, and moving troops around.

I'm fairly sure you have to be offered a fleet to purchase; you can't request the purchasing of someone else's fleet. AI isn't coded to offer fleets for purchasing, I think.

 

[Ricox]

The AI doesn't assume anything and doesn't think anything. It just has you as their ally and they automatically call you to war... and of course they didn't add the option for the player to "ask" AI allies to not call him/her to war (and if the AI doesn't like it - it can cancel the alliance), so when I'm in the middle of a really hard war I will of course have some dumb ally declaring war on a stronger country because it expects me to win the war for them... I can't say I'm going to be "cordial" and only join against my rivals, I get called anyway and have to take a huge relations, trust & prestige hit to deny... thanks Paradox.

 

[IIWW]

The AI doesn't assume anything and doesn't think anything. It just has you as their ally and they automatically call you to war... and of course they didn't add the option for the player to "ask" AI allies to not call him/her to war (and if the AI doesn't like it - it can cancel the alliance), so when I'm in the middle of a really hard war I will of course have some dumb ally declaring war on a stronger country because it expects me to win the war for them... I can't say I'm going to be "cordial" and only join against my rivals, I get called anyway and have to take a huge relations, trust & prestige hit to deny... thanks Paradox.

about setting players attitude:

Yeah, this is on my longterm todo.

 

[ChildeR]

If it was a defensive war there's also the fact that defensive CTA is automatic.

 

[BestOfTheWest]

There's another factor: Strength of alliance, when it comes to negotiating peace.
The more troops your alliance has (on paper), the easier is it for you to get the peace you want.
So it actually makes sense to call in allies from far away, just to look strong, even if they never show up on the battlefields.

 

[Pilot00]

The AI doesn't assume anything and doesn't think anything. It just has you as their ally and they automatically call you to war... and of course they didn't add the option for the player to "ask" AI allies to not call him/her to war (and if the AI doesn't like it - it can cancel the alliance), so when I'm in the middle of a really hard war I will of course have some dumb ally declaring war on a stronger country because it expects me to win the war for them... I can't say I'm going to be "cordial" and only join against my rivals, I get called anyway and have to take a huge relations, trust & prestige hit to deny... thanks Paradox.

Yes and no, to me it seems a bit...random. At times the AI is fully capable of smashing the enemy and calls me for no reason, even when I am on multiple wars, at others they are losing badly, I am just 2 provinces away with a huge army no W.E. and full manpower and doesn't call.

There definitely is something fishy.

 

[birincikalite]

Because it's hoping you'll actually get around to finally building a navy (pretty cheap and quick for just transports) or perhaps it hopes you'll be able to deal with any allies on your continent that their enemy might have?

And it'd be a pretty cheesy workaround if all you had to do to avoid getting a call to arms from overseas would be to never build a navy.

Well I think it just thinks nothing besides negative/positive factors

 

[TheMeInTeam]

Yes and no, to me it seems a bit...random. At times the AI is fully capable of smashing the enemy and calls me for no reason, even when I am on multiple wars, at others they are losing badly, I am just 2 provinces away with a huge army no W.E. and full manpower and doesn't call.

There definitely is something fishy.

In the latter case, they're usually helping a different ally or are a non-cobelligerent defender, thus can't call you.

 

[Suzaku]

I kind of assumed that the OP has no coast, and therefore no capabilities to build a navy.

Oh I have a coast just focusing on land as too many continental powers, so most of my spending is on the military.

 

[Pilot00]

In the latter case, they're usually helping a different ally or are a non-cobelligerent defender, thus can't call you.

Usually been the word here.