Absence of AI Alliance's

[verity_blues]

{Choose Your Champion}
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I know that this has already been mentioned a few times, but I just wanted to say that I am now closing in on 80 turns (40 yrs) and the AI has still not initiated ANY alliances in my campaign. This mod is supposed to have a more roleplaying feel to it, and by and large it does, but I personaly would love to see some factions Ally! I've been waiting for it so that I can choose to assist my brothers in combat against our common enemies on a grand scale. I enjoyed it in vanilla when the sides would be drawn into almost teams, like the allies and axis powers! On one of my campaigns it had a feel to it as if it were (me) Venice, France, and Denmark against HRE, England, and Millan; and I really miss that.

BUT PLEASE DON'T TAKE THAT AS DLV BASHING!

THIS MOD IS ALMOST AS IMPORTANT AS AIR TO ME!

[Ryofu]

You are not giving it enough time. In my game in 1236 the entire catholic world was plunged into world war because Milan allied with England and Portugal attacked Venice which was allied to me, the papal states, france and HRE. Milan, England and portugal all got excommunicated and it is really a huge free for all in western europe.

I was playing the Magyar btw.

[repman]

@verity_blues
the first alliance i have seen was in 1210. I think the problem is that not enough diplomats are running around,.. they seem to disappear ??

repman

[verity_blues]

I believe that you are right, in vanilla I would keep a few diplomats around Millan (it's the main path from west to east) and would be able to negotiate with passing through diplomats from every faction within twenty turns or so. So far my Millan-posted diplomats are dying of old age while only negotiating once or twice.

[missu]

i've had games where the ai allied within the first turns and some where they allied first around turn 100.
when they ally late in the game that is welcome, because i can spend more time on building power blocks.

what i did to ensure that the ai can actually do diplomacy is the following:
setting the age of each and every diplomat listed in the descr_strat to 16 AND adding diplomats to those factions that only have princesses at the start.

i know princesses are way better than diplomats, but on the other hand i am way better than the ai.

[Siculus]

Forty-eight turns into an English campaign, the following alliances are in place (not counting my own alliances, only AI-AI alliances):

Spain w/ Denmark, Hungary, and Sicily
Sicily w/ Milan, Spain, Portugal, and Poland
Portugal w/ Sicily, Denmark, Hungary, and Poland
Poland w/ Denmark and Sicily
Hungary w/ Portugal and Spain
Denmark w/ Poland, Portugal, and Spain
Milan w/ Sicily

Siculus

[cordia75]

My game, the factions started allying after the first 20 years.

[Ordensritter]

I'm in year 1215 and no alliances. So spain was cleared out of the map lonely and isolated.

[repman]

In DLV 2.1 Alliances work normally , was an error in my diplomacy settings

repman