1.0 bugs

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1) The AI actually cast a strategic spell on my stack, which was awesome. However it didn't seem to expire; the spell was Wither, which I believe should last three turns. It lasted until the end of the game. Which was only a dozen turns or so, I was losing badly, but it was certainly a lot more than 3 turns. The icon was definitely still on my stack, although I didn't double-check that it was affecting the stats. If it;s relevant to anything I had lost both my cities at the time!

2) Not sure if this is a bug or not; I was unable to Declare War on the AI. I had recently paid tribute to the AI to stop him attacking me. Does this stop the AI declaring war for a certain period? If so I assume this should be one-way, i.e. it should still be possible for the player who paid the tribute to declare war on the player they paid the tribute to. Otherwise how can we build up sneak attacks on our oppressors? :D

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

The icon was definitely still on my stack
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Are you certain the spell's effects hadn't ended?  There's a similar bug with Freeze, where the spell effect ends after 3 turns but the icon stays on top of the army until you save and reload.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

2) Not sure if this is a bug or not; I was unable to Declare War on the AI. I had recently paid tribute to the AI to stop him attacking me. Does this stop the AI declaring war for a certain period? If so I assume this should be one-way, i.e. it should still be possible for the player who paid the tribute to declare war on the player they paid the tribute to. Otherwise how can we build up sneak attacks on our oppressors?
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There is a 30-turn no-declaration-of-war constraint included in the Tribute Treaty. My advice if you want to build up sneak attacks on your oppressors is to use that time to build up an army and then declare war as soon as the tribute expires.

If you want, you could change the duration of the tribute treaty in Treaties.xml, but I don't see any way in the XML to disable the ban on war declarations. Note that changing the duration affects both the amount of time that the faction is paying tribute and the duration of the war prohibition. There doesn't seem to be any way to separate the two durations in the XML.

Thus, if you intend to go to war with an AI faction at some point within the next 30 turns, you should neither offer tribute nor accept offers of tribute from that faction. If you don't feel strong enough to refuse the tribute demands and choose to give in to the demands, then unless there is a way to cancel the treaty that I haven't noticed, you're stuck at peace with that faction until the treaty expires.

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Ok, well moving my army into their territory until they declared war worked, although it does seem a bit of a round about way of doing things. I still think it should be made clearer that paying tribute is an automatic "cannot declare war for 30 turns", I don't remember seeing anything about that in the screen when it came up.

It's entirely possible it was just the icon for Wither, I was losing quite badly so I didn't spend ages checking everything in that game. Even if it's just the icon it would still be nice if this was fixed, though.

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Quoting merlinme, reply 3
It's entirely possible it was just the icon for Wither, I was losing quite badly so I didn't spend ages checking everything in that game. Even if it's just the icon it would still be nice if this was fixed, though.
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I agree that it needs to be fixed.