How Do You Break A Treaty?

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I had non-aggression, trade, and tech treaties with Capitar, along with a good relationship - until they went and built an outpost on the very spot I had planned to (iron, crystal, and Fire shards all within easy reach).  So I marched my bestest army right up to the city (which was completely undefended, by the way) but I couldn't launch a surprise attack. But I couldn't declare war, either - that was grayed out in the diplomacy menu.  As was the "treaties" option.

 

Is my only choice to wait it out until the non-aggression treaty expires?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

correct.. you have to wait until the terms expire... at least in the current version...

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

That's kind of the whole point.  Non-aggression treaties would be meaningless if you could just break them whenever you want.  It'd be nice if you could choose how many turns it would last, though.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

What's the point of a non aggression pact if you can't use it to guarantee a surprise attack? ;)

 

I think you could balance the abuse of surprise attacks by simply lowering your diplomatic standings with everyone (except maybe the people that like those sort of things) when you do it. How does that sound?

Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top

Its funny that you are asking how to break a treaty...I don't even know how to start one. :)

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

You need to research it in the diplomacy/cooperation tree, then there is a relationships section which allows you to view all your standings and make treaties etc. What I want is to be able to set up alliances pre-game, as I've been able to do in every other 4X game I've played.

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

What I wanna know is how to break alliances...

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting liq3, reply 6
What I wanna know is how to break alliances...
End of liq3's quote

Click on the dynasties option and try arrange a marraige and it will reset the page, you will then be able to declare war again. Its a bug but useful. The devs may fix this and add a legitimate way to break allience later.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Thizzbaby, reply 7

Quoting liq3, reply 6What I wanna know is how to break alliances...

Click on the dynasties option and try arrange a marraige and it will reset the page, you will then be able to declare war again. Its a bug but useful. The devs may fix this and add a legitimate way to break allience later.
End of Thizzbaby's quote

 

Yeah, someone pointed that out to me.  Has it already been reported in the bug forum?