(July 20th, 2021, 01:10)Tarkeel Wrote: According to the setup thread, the game is being played with true AI diplo, which means that you can only use the trade screen to communicate, no text at all. It's not uncommon to use gold (after Currency) to communicate stuff like turn, and there are various resource trades that have taken on a meaning in the community. How they will be interpreted in any game is not set though.
It's not uncommon to say hi and chat about things unrelated to the gamestate if you find another player online though.
Edit: The exception is that you're allowed and even encouraged to inform the other part of a turn split, which usually happens with war declarations.
And another tiny exception. When you are both logged in at the same time, you can't choose things to trade from your trade partners list. In this case you either have to wait until the log off or just tell them what you want to trade.
Interesting. If I had known that true AI diplo meant no communication, I would not have voted for it. I thought that it just opened up more trade options for players.
It does open up more trade options that are normally off in multiplayer games, like "Stop trading with", "Declare war on" etc. that's why it's called true AI diplo.
And also when did the AI ever respond to your chat messages In that regard it's also true AI diplo
In a diplo game, would not you want those extra options on while also being able to talk with the other players in game? I suppose you can just message them on this site, but that is a bit more of a hassle.
Yes, since I implemented true AI diplo no game was started without it be it diplo or no diplo. If people want to run a diplo game they normally specifically ask for it. We had a lot more diplo games in the past but it left some players somewhat scarred. But even in diplo games people usually don't use the in-game chat for diplo, because it is just to unwieldy. People fall back to PMs here or discord.
For the instant 2G trade routes and I have a feeling I will need galleys to protect my fishing boats against barbarians as the ring of mountain islands is going to spawn a lot of barbarian galleys I think.
In that regard it's also true AI diplo 