Suggestions to improve warring

[Uhm hoi]

It's a lot harder to get wars this age than it was last age. Just like it was seen in previous ages when the devs experimented with it getting harder to get your province in the optimal state before war, it doesn't change when people feel they are ready for wars, it just changes how long it takes them to get to their desired optimum.

So please
- reinstate double wizard pump in eowcf
- make eowcf 96h again
- make fort 72h again
- reduce elite cost (Or if bishop still dislikes full elite armies, get a different mechanic to how they are trained, not just increase the time it takes to get to a full elite army)

[RattleHead]

Nahhhh, adapt or die! everyone sitting in Fort and CF is boring, at least with shorter protection time there is greater potential for wars to start. I would even suggest making it 48h between Forts, quit hiding back there!

[neanderthal]

It's always been hard to find wars.

[Bishop]

No, no, no, yes.

[pathetic sheep]

So please...

I disagree.

It's always been hard to find wars.

My memory disagrees with that too.

My memory from 8 to 10 years back wars were much easier. Especially when you could declare hostile and then wars would start automatically when the meter hit reach an easy to achieve number.

If the developers build forced wars into the game we would not need any bonus at the end of the wars because you do not need to entice kingdoms to accept. Here is a rule set I stole from another game:

If your target kingdoms meets the following conditions, your monarch can declare a forced war as long as the the following conditions are met:
- You have not beaten them already in war.
- They have more war points than you.
- They are within 100%-110% networth range.
- Your relations meter on them must be less or equal to their meter.
- Your kingdom has less or equal provinces.
- You cannot declare until 72 utopia days after your last war concluded.

If these conditions are met it is regarded as an automatically accepted War, with the important difference that the war starts in 36 + a random 1-24 utopia days.

[lampost]

Personally I disagree with each one of those suggestions. What makes the game more challenging and more fun to play is when its tougher and you have to prepare for a wide variety of scenarios. To just press a button and black magically (like that song :)) be war ready is just silly and takes a whole strategy component away from the game.

Double wizard training, long eowcf and long fort helps make the game one dimensional as described.