A holy diplomacy question?

[Lord_Drakken]

My fist few games I played as Ulm. so when I tried a new nation I was surprised to see the holy limit on unit building. My question is can you raise this limit or is it set?

Second is there any diplomacy or do you stay at war with someone for the entire game?

thanks in advance.

[Shovah32]

The holy limit applies to sacred units only(which you probably know). It is equal to the amount of dominion you picked for your pretender and is raised by 1 for every 5 temples you build.
There is no diplomacy when fighting against the ai. They may declare war against you without warning(you will recieve a message) and sometimes they will stop the fighting without a message.

[Lord_Drakken]

Thanks for the information. wierd that there is no peace message?

[llamabeast]

Indeed, it is weird.

[Lingchih]

You do indeed stay at war for the entire game. The AI bases it's war declarations on how many troops you have. If you have less than it, it may declare war. If you later build up a superior force to the AI, then it may not attack you again, although you are still at war. You can sometimes ignore an AI nation that you have totally overpowered, even if it has declared war, since it will most likely not attack you again.

[Edratman]

I find the AI declares war often when I haven't even found a single province of that nation. I have noticed that I usually soon find that nation with a scout so that means that the AI sees my scout in some manner. It is also common that the AI nation is well removed from my provinces.

I put AI declarations of war into 2 categories:
1. When they are adjacent I get the declaration of war on the same turn they attacked my provinces. Sort of like Pearl Harbor.
2. The declaration of war occurs when they are not even close. When we do end up having adjacent provinces they don't attack until they have assembled a large force, which sometimes never happens.