In my first campaign as the Dutch and I made my first alliance with Portugal. I later became at war with both Denmark and Sweden because Portugal did and I joined in out of loyalty to my ali. Several years go by and I receive news that Portogal has made peace with those two. I would like to do the same but can't see where in the game a peace can be negotiated. I did notice on the deplomacy page that my relationship with the two baltic powers is "reserved" (what does that mean?) yet Sweden still attacks Indian ports owned by me. I would love an explanation of this.
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Peace is diplomatic item, like pact and alliance, on your side on the negotiations. It might be though, that the other party does not even want to enter negotiations with you. AI can offer peace to player itself too.
It's best to wait until they ask you for peace. They will try to bribe you into it and you will earn an extra buck. If you are the one proposing peace, even if winning side, it will cost you.
Also, allying with AI isn't really a good idea. It's not something powerplayers do in this game. It costs you resources cause your allies can buy from your ports and also drags you into wars you don't always want to fight. I ride the whole game without any allies, just Pacts with everyone.
Also, allying with AI isn't really a good idea. It's not something powerplayers do in this game. It costs you resources cause your allies can buy from your ports and also drags you into wars you don't always want to fight. I ride the whole game without any allies, just Pacts with everyone.
The moment your AI ally makes peace with a company, your company does the same.
However, occasionally your opponents still dislike you for what you've done
so they keep on attacking you, hoping you would declare war on them.If you have any of the MTI stockpiled in your hometown warehouse, use those in the diplomacy screen to "bribe" yourself into better relations with Sweden.
I have to disagree with this.
Having an ally is occasionally a good idea. For instance when you plan to destroy all other companies.
Often the AI-opponents are too busy to fight my AI-ally to notice I'm capturing / sinking their fleets one at a time. And usually when they do notice, it's too late for them.
Not to mention, by using an AI-ally to help you fight your wars, you keep your ally weaker too, making it easier to destroy it when the time comes to kill your last competition.
Another good reason to have an ally is that you can occasionally exchange some "useless" ports for an Indian Port. That's how I got Bombay in one of my games, by exchanging it for Mozambique, Luanda and Mocha.
And finally, the AI-ally might buy your goods in your ports, but keep in mind that you can buy their goods in their ports as well. Making it easier to complete a campaign goal without waging war all the time.
Thorin
I have to disagree with your disagreement! ;-)
- You don't need allies to destroy other companies. It's better to not have any actually since allies will attack convoys going out to India while myself I attack only those coming back since they have better loot and cost my enemies way more cash when lost.
- You can exchange ports even if you aren't allied. A Pact can make them smile really widely to you and if you are powerful enough they won't negotiate for long.
- I don't need to buy goods in AI's ports. I have more than enough of mine and actually struggle most of the time with prices going to low to squeeze enough profit. Buying at higher price in AI ports may be a viable strategy on easy or medium but on hard you have to time everything to arrive when target port is at 1800t goods or you won't be able to pay for your SOLs. :-|
- You don't need allies to destroy other companies. It's better to not have any actually since allies will attack convoys going out to India while myself I attack only those coming back since they have better loot and cost my enemies way more cash when lost.
- You can exchange ports even if you aren't allied. A Pact can make them smile really widely to you and if you are powerful enough they won't negotiate for long.
- I don't need to buy goods in AI's ports. I have more than enough of mine and actually struggle most of the time with prices going to low to squeeze enough profit. Buying at higher price in AI ports may be a viable strategy on easy or medium but on hard you have to time everything to arrive when target port is at 1800t goods or you won't be able to pay for your SOLs. :-|
So we're having a different playstyle then.
Mine is based upon domination by destruction of (most of) the AI-companies, your upon domination by owning all 12 Indian ports.
And with that in mind: I prefer to take out both the incoming and outgoing fleets.
Ships I can use are being captured, the rest is looted and scuttled. If those ships carry the export-goods, these goods are stored into my warehouse, where I manually load them upon a tradeconvoy, receiving the new ship.
That way you hit your opponents twice, thus causing more damage to their finances. Must be a left-over from playing PR-2 I guess.
The only thing that does bother me is the way peacesolutions are made.
With an enemy company down to zero ships, my warfleet blockading (having the area of sight over) their port, the stupid AI keep refusing making peace.
And since my goals to start a war are to capture a port without taking too many losses (ever tried to attack a lvl 3 port with 5 galleons??
), that's in my peace solution.Anyone pussed down into the gutter would accept peace if it meant they had to give up a colony. It's how the Dutch got many colonies from Portugal, before loosing them the same way to England.
Except this game's AI.
Thorin