How does dimplomacy work?

[Blackhydra]

I have basically only played against bots. And then I've know discovered the diplomacy. But when i tried to become nutral or at peace with the ai, it just allways replies like this: "I'm not intrested in an allience". Am i doing something wrong? Or is the issue that I'm playing against ai?

Edited 15 hours ago by Blackhydra

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

Make sure to try Neutral first, and not after you've killed any of their units. They're less likely to agree to neutrality if you've killed a bunch of their units. 

[Gurken Khan]

I don't know how often the AIs make an offer in this version, but I'm likely to deny it anyway: I came to finish them.

I usually play with one ally and four enemies, if you team them up it becomes harder; with three teams in total there's decent variability in how they behave.

[Thalatta]

5 hours ago, wowgetoffyourcellphone said:

Make sure to try Neutral first, and not after you've killed any of their units. They're less likely to agree to neutrality if you've killed a bunch of their units. 

It would be nice if there was some indicator on how much they like you or not (Sins of a Solar Empire had this for example). This could influence not only diplomacy and aggression, but also the market, which right now is a copy of AoE and I'd totally change for something more interesting.

[Grautvornix]

Isn't that like in real life? Neutrality is not guaranteed , especially not if you harmed the other country.

The AI consistently replying "not interested" seems strange to me.

In SP, I often use neutrality which works in many cases (could not find out why or why not) and in a second step also an alliance which sometimes can be established. often there is a tribute to pay (1000 wood or the like) for one or the other.