Originally Posted by
Mamertine
After economy, diplomacy in general is different. Factions that were historic enemies will not give you trade rights, nor will your enemies allies most of the time. Assassins and spies are even more useless than in vanilla and I never use. Allies can be important, but unlike vanilla, do go around the map trying to collect trade rights from everyone and make 5 alliances. First, that won't happen. And two, doing that will make the alliance(s) you do need strained. I personally almost never get allies in any mod or vanilla, too much of a headache and the AI backstabs you whenever it wants anyways.