Problem With Offering Alliance?

[barbarossa2]

I think I had a problem in the PBEM game I am playing.

I am Sweden and I attempted to offer an alliance to Russia by right clicking on a provence of theirs. When I did this and selected "offer alliance", it indicated "Not enough resources to fulfill this order".

I know I have only one "diplomatic action" per turn. But I hadn't done anything else yet. I HAD subsidized Denmark just before that. But I know that subsidizing doesn't take up one Diplomacy Point as many other actions do (such as declaring war, etc).

Then, after sending the turn away, I re-downloaded and re-opened the original file and tried to duplicate it. But I couldn't (perhaps even more concerning, since the mystery may be lost to the universe now).

When I get my next turn back, I will be curious to see if it worked in the end and the warning was in error...or if I don't get an alliance (which will be too bad).

Any thoughts out there?

[lenin]

If you did the quick, right click "offer alliance" thingie, it could have been rejected due to the other nations' diplomacy settings. I know several of us were caught out by this on turn one of our pbem. Perhaps its' better sending a detailed proposal?

[barbarossa2]

If this is the case, it may be a good idea for WCS to change the warning then. For instance, "The Russians refuse to accept our offer of alliance."

However, as I indicated, after I emailed my real turn away, I reopened the PBEM files sent to me and redid part of the turn to see if I could duplicate the problem. I couldn't. It didn't repeat the warning the second time. It seemed to accept the request. Which is what concerns me.