is it possible to have less aggressive factions?

**Arcimaestro Antares** · January 24, 2012, 12:24 PM

all the other factions, always attack me.
I tried to offer great amount of money to all my neighbours, so that my relationship with them was alwas "perfect" or "outstanding". Regardless this, they attack me.
The only peaceful faction is the papal state. Well, I'd like the other factions were less aggressive towards me and they attacked me only if the relationship is so-so or lower, ori if attack them first. Otherwise, they should attack me only if the power of my faction is much smaller than theirs.
It is very odd when I am the most powerful faction in the known world and my neighbours with a "perfect" relatioship attack me.
Is there a way to make the chance they start a war with me, more dependent upon my/their power and how much good our relationship is?

**valvegas1** · January 25, 2012, 11:03 PM

descr_campaign_ai_db is the file your looking for...it's in XML format but you can edit it with notepad or notepad++....this controls how factions decide who to attack and when to attack them...

If you don't want to mess around with this file then just play the game on easy settings....

**Arcimaestro Antares** · January 26, 2012, 09:20 AM

thanks for the info!

In this file, I found this line

SPECIAL CASE EXISTS HERE IN CODE FOR FORCING ATTACK ON HUMAN IF AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE FOR TOO LONG (hard = 4 turns, normal = 10 turns, easy = 20 turns)

this means that, after a few turns, someone will attack me whatever I change in this file?

**Taiji** · January 26, 2012, 10:31 AM

No, that's talking about stuff you can change.

**Arcimaestro Antares** · January 26, 2012, 12:05 PM

I am studying this file.

I want that if I have good relations with other factions, and I am not at war, they do not attack me.

I wrote something like that, in the section
SPECIAL CASE EXISTS HERE IN CODE FOR 'CAN_ATTACK_FACTION', NO INVASION IF SO

Spoiler Alert, click show to read:

I believed the other factions didn't attack me, if we are not at war. I started a new game, and after 10 turns, they attack me.

**CavalryCmdr** · January 26, 2012, 01:07 PM

SPECIAL CASE EXISTS HERE IN CODE FOR FORCING ATTACK ON HUMAN IF AT PEACE WITH EVERYONE FOR TOO LONG (hard = 4 turns, normal = 10 turns, easy = 20 turns)
Yes, this is actually active in the game, to shut it off you need to change

Code:

<use_cheat_overrides bool="true"/>

to

Code:

<use_cheat_overrides bool="false"/>

It's near the begining of the file before any faction_ai_label's

You only told them they couldnt FORCE invade, not that they cant invade AT ALL

can_force_invade covers forced invasions (such as crusades) and naval invasions, not normal "I wanna attack you" invasions. By the way, -1 faction standing is as low as it's possible to get, so no-one will ever attack you if you use that minimum. -1.0 is lowest, 0.0 is neutral and 1.0 is highest. So to achive what your looking for try:

Code:

<decision_entry>
<!--
do not attack player if good relationship and neautral 
-->
<min_entry target_faction_standing="0.3" stance="Neutral" target_human="true"/>
<faction_attitude can_force_invade="false" invade="invade_none"/>
</decision_entry>

With cheat overrides set to fals. You may want to add a line in for allies as well.
You may find this link usefull

http://rtw.heavengames.com/cgi-bin/f...t&f=9,6718,,10

**Taiji** · January 26, 2012, 02:22 PM

I have <use_cheat_overrides bool="true"/> and do not experience this feature's described effects.

**Arcimaestro Antares** · January 27, 2012, 08:11 AM

thanks for the detailed info, but unfortunately, they still attack me.

I tried to use the target_faction_standing="-1" so that none should attack me, but they do

HOwever, I found this mod shabawangy diplomacy mod1.5, and tested it for a while, and the other factions don't attack me, if I am their allied.