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RammaStardock

May 1 @ 12:03pm

ARA: History Untold - v1.31 Update Changelog

AI Diplomacy Overhaul

Smarter Tribute Decisions: AI is now significantly less inclined to give in to tribute demands from weaker nations.
The AI now weighs the military cost of crushing the demanding nation against the value of tribute and delays to its strategic goals.
- This change fixes unintuitive behavior where AI nations would easily appease others, even when stronger.
AI's rationalization of accepting tribute in the form of improved relations reduced further.

Improved AI Behavior

AI behavior now reflects military strength more realistically in tribute negotiations.
Tribute demands from the player are now auto-rejected if the AI has at least 75% of the player’s military strength.
AI will only initiate tribute demands if their military is at least 2× stronger than the other nation.
Gift value declines the more you give to prevent easy manipulation of Nation relations

Tribute Mechanics

Increased Cooldown: The cooldown between tribute or similar diplomatic requests is now 25 turns (up from 10).
Higher Consequences for Failure:
- Penalty for rejected tribute demands increased from -100 → -250.
- Tribute rejection now carries a more meaningful diplomatic cost for players.
Reduced Reward for Success: AI nations now grant much smaller diplomatic boosts when accepting tribute demands, representing a more rational stance.
Difficulty Level Adjustment: Tribute acceptance is no longer heavily influenced by difficulty setting. On Easy, AI no longer automatically accepts demands.
Fixed bug where the AI wasn't looking at all of the items in a proposal.
Fixed bug that could result in the AI always rejecting a demand tribute proposal
Balanced AI so that if the other nation has a lot more military power than the other then it is especially inclined to accept a demand tribute request.