Diplomatic question

[unmerged(3165)]

There's few very strange things...

I'm playing GC with russia. I don't annex much, i fight wars when needed, mostly against Poland-Lithuania. Why everyone seems to hate me so very much. My allies have had many territories conquered with my help. Still my relations with them are going down. Slowly but surely.

In fact all but my allies hate me about -200

Why is this happening? FAQ offers no help about this issue.

I'm very tolerant with these religion things also.

 

[BiB]

U have to invest in diplomacy, esp when Russia. First of all u have another religion, xure it isn't islamic but it isn't exactly catholic either. Secondly there's the fact that as Russia it's very hard to play without even a fair bit of expanding, which doesn't help. Russia simply isn't the nation to play diplomatic with seeing their core provinces are shattered over all its neighbours which in itslef make relations go down quicklier.

Select a few countries u'd like as allies and work on those. If u want to win diplomatically, I suggest u don't play Russia

 

[unmerged(2105)]

I agree with BiB. I will invest in a group of allies who I will try to maintain over the course of the entire game, usually Austria, Bohemia, and Denmark (to balance Poland and Sweden.) The rest of the world is not my concern!

 

[unmerged(2735)]

I think the Orthodox religion is the cause of
Russia's relations problem. When I played them
everyone except my 5 or 6 friends slowly
drifted toward -200.

Who cares. You can by lots 'n lots
of cheap soldiers and force them to
like you.

 

[unmerged(2609)]

The problem with Russia's relationships is that you guys blew through the Khanates in five years. This gets you a high BB value, and everyone will begin to hate you, especially if you start in attacking Poland and Sweden and Persia the the Teutonic Order right after that (actually, you can attack Persia without much trouble).

If you take it slow, you don't have to invest anything to stay in good graces with your allies, and while other countries may hate you, they won't attack you every time you are at war with someone else.

If you want to be extremely violent without making the AI mad at you, do the following:

1) Take the first Khanate.
2) Wait about 15 years, but during this time take Ingermanland so you can use the time to upgrade your northern colonies if you have the resources.
3) Take the second Khanate.
4) Wait about 15 years.
5) Take the third Khanate.
6) Start eating non-European Moslem countries (starting with Persia), a few provinces out of each one every five years or so, while at the same time colonizing any province you can see. Do this for about 20 years.
7) Take the fourth Khanate.
8) Wait about 15 years.
9) Start nibbling on Poland.
10) Continue the policy of eating hunks out of non-European countries, wherever you find them. You can also eat European colonies outside of Europe, if you can get the European country to honor an alliance with a non-European ally.

I did approximately the above minus the attacking Persia part of point 6 and everything worked fine. I won easily and kept BB under about 7 for the whole game. I had exactly one war that wasn't started by me or an ally, and nobody ever jumped on me while I was at war with someone else.

bruce