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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ericbabe<br/>
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The game could use some more messages when DOW's and similar can't be fulfilled in the ways that players might normally expect them. There are several factors that prevent nations from going to war (peace turns, treaty clauses, mutual ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ralegh<br/>
Who else are you at war with? The game won't let you declare war on some who is at war with someone you are at war with. To change sides, you need to go to peace with everyone, and only then declare some new wars. You will need to break the alliances ...

<t> Progress: After 7 turns, France and Russia have achieved a cease fire! The electronic Foreign Ministry bureaucrats still reject offers to form an alliance between France and Russia. Russia is still not given the option of declaring war on Austria.<br/>
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Is there a built-in delay -- not ...

<t> The Game Manual (page 74, PBEM) says:<br/>
"If aggressive is turned on, then a nation will take any aggressive positions toward that nation whenever they arise (issuing ultimatums, declaring protectorates when the other nation goes to war with countries, etc). If aggressive is turned on ...

<r> A great deal of the fun and tension in a PBEM game with 7 or 8 players is in trying to gauge who you can trust -- and ocasionally stabbing an erstwhile ally in the back! Well, it <B><s>[b]</s>should<e>[/b]</e></B> be. In an 1805 scenario, I am trying to get my nation, Russia, to break from the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ralegh<br/>
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Well we can put it up as a suggestion for a patch - eric is already planning a range of PBEM enhancements ...<br/>
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eric - the proposal is that when you enhance PBEM, let all this political stuff go through for a manual decision by the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Beorn<br/>
I am very foggy as to the making of textiles from wool and cotton <br/>
* as to what city quality inherently links up with the production of textiles <br/>
* as to what city development improves the production of textiles <br/>
* as to what good a ...