You could be an absolute bastard in Rome total war diplomacy. I feel they never really got it right again after this
Do you have examples? I kind of haven’t played RTW in a long time, and when I played I didn’t do much diplomacy.
I just remember the AI being a push over. You could declare war, beat on them for a bit then extract huge amounts of money out of them through diplomacy and declare peace. Then do it all again, over and over. I always remember enjoying the diplomacy phase of that game
I really think they do use AI to make some decisions, it seems like the most reasonable explanation for some of the choices. Just for curiousity I used chatGPT to ask for plans to improve the situation in the Iran conflict. The top plan it gave was to use state-backed terrorism on ships and ports to create pressure while ensuring deniability. It referred to it as “hiring privateers to disrupt trade through seizing vessels or limited strikes”, it’s wild that AI/LLMs have gone from plagiarism machines to war crime generators.
Not that wild when you consider all of the western “journalism” that is in their training data
… and then the AI attacks anyway… bastards.
