Diplomacy & Foreign Relations

[runtheball]

Playing as the Iranians, part of the Assyrian ethnic group, I start the game just focusing on my economy and defense - not attacking anyone. My largest neighbors start with a neutral attitude toward me. A couple years later, all my neighbors are invading me (I didn't enter anyone else's territory before they attacked). Fortunately, I fight off their attacks and launch counter-attacks and take two of their cities. I send diplomats to other Assyrian peoples, and am surprised to find that they are ANTAGONISTIC toward me, and that I am their WORST ENEMY, even though we are the same ethnic group, share no borders, and have never fought. They are even being attacked (and slowly beaten-down) by other nations, but they find ME to be their worst enemy???????

Why do all of my neighbors attack me when I have not sent forces into anyone else's territory, nor even placed forces along my borders? Why do other nations of the same ethnicity as me find me to be their worst enemy, though we've never had any contact?

Surely this needs to be addressed in a patch. Will there ever be one?

[penguinism]

I think that is just a classic problem. The thing is that diplomacy is just too complicated to program so you always have over simplified version in PC games that can do strange and unpredictable thing (as in things that doesn't make sense). This is the same for most AI engines from time to time. I mean if you think about diplomacy in realy life and the type of exchanges and interactions that goes on. Plus what setting are you playing at it may have some influence on that too.