Is it possible to skip votes?

[Netzach Sloth]

It's aggravating getting my ass handed to me in a war with super aggressive Deity difficulty Gandhi, it only compounds the irritation by forcing me to take part in a mechanic that, in early game, doesn't even kind of matter.

Is there a hidden option somewhere, like in V, that lets you skip the votes?

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Your first vote on each proposition is free, so why not use it?

[Prometheus]

You cannot skip votes.

[Netzach Sloth]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

Your first vote on each proposition is free, so why not use it?

Because it's irritating that I'm forced to do it, the random feeling switch from a war on the world map to a screen with things I don't care about, is jarring, and particularly irritating when I'm focused on a war that isn't going very well.

[Prometheus]

You do know that the Congress sometimes allows you to vote for doubling the cost of units, and you can pick the unit. Or halving the cost. Or banning the production of buildings in districts of your choice, or halving them... and other useful stuff in war.

[Netzach Sloth]

Originally posted by Prometheus:

You do know that the Congress sometimes allows you to vote for doubling the cost of units, and you can pick the unit. Or halving the cost. Or banning the production of buildings in districts of your choice, or halving them... and other useful stuff in war.

Yes, it can be those things, and forgetting the fact that the deity AI will pretty much always beat you in diplomacy early game, the options are still more often than not, worthless for war, and the forced screen change, and drop down choice, are nothing but irritating.

It's absurd that there's no option to just not do the diplomacy, let the other civs do their diplomatic nonsense with each other, I just want to watch the world burn, and that doesn't include voting on how good coffee tastes.

[Kimmaz]

I didnt get to vote before the timer ran out. So you can skip voted in mp if you use timers I think. Im not very good at them yet so i dont understand it.

[Prometheus]

Somehow I feel like a spent lightning rod now. Sorry for trying man. Rest assured, it shall not happen again.

[Netzach Sloth]

I found one that I actually like; military emergency, all the negatives aside, it gives a 20 loyalty per turn bonus to the aggressor, that would be super helpful if they'd let me vote for an emergency against myself, or they could at least let me abstain, but nope, I'm forced to vote against the emergence... because.

[Gentlest Giant]

Wait what. I've always had plenty of diplomatic favour available at deity even in the first votes to get my way. Not all the things for sure, but I've never been denied something I pointed really hard at.

[tempest.of.emptiness]

Originally posted by Netzach Sloth:

Yes, it can be those things, and forgetting the fact that the deity AI will pretty much always beat you in diplomacy early game, the options are still more often than not, worthless for war, and the forced screen change, and drop down choice, are nothing but irritating.

It's absurd that there's no option to just not do the diplomacy, let the other civs do their diplomatic nonsense with each other, I just want to watch the world burn, and that doesn't include voting on how good coffee tastes.

This is a little like saying it is absurd that there isn't an option to turn off civilian units because you hate how cluttered improvements make the map look. I don't mean that your opinion is invalid, I mean that it is sufficiently unusual that your concerns are probably best met with a mod. I don't know if there's a mod that removes the world congress yet, but you might want to check because I think that would solve your problem.

[Netzach Sloth]

Originally posted by tempest.of.emptiness:

Originally posted by Netzach Sloth:

Yes, it can be those things, and forgetting the fact that the deity AI will pretty much always beat you in diplomacy early game, the options are still more often than not, worthless for war, and the forced screen change, and drop down choice, are nothing but irritating.

It's absurd that there's no option to just not do the diplomacy, let the other civs do their diplomatic nonsense with each other, I just want to watch the world burn, and that doesn't include voting on how good coffee tastes.

This is a little like saying it is absurd that there isn't an option to turn off civilian units because you hate how cluttered improvements make the map look. I don't mean that your opinion is invalid, I mean that it is sufficiently unusual that your concerns are probably best met with a mod. I don't know if there's a mod that removes the world congress yet, but you might want to check because I think that would solve your problem.

It's not like that at all, you have to actively create civilian units, you have a choice there; there's no choice whatsoever in whether or not you participate in diplomacy, and in some cases the game will even require that you vote against your best interests. As in my example above: there was an emergency declared against my civ, and even though the bonus loyalty per turn would have prevented a city I'd taken from rebelling, I was forced to vote against the emergency; I couldn't vote for the emergency, or even skip the vote, I had to actively vote against my best interest and miss out on the loyalty bonus from having an emergency declared against me.