Not invited to Emergencies

[Alex Fury]

So, something I've noticed the last few games.
Every now and then when an Emergency is reported against someone else (not me), I never get the invite to join. Sometimes I do sometimes I don't.
Is there something that excludes me? Being a friend to the target, something else?
I don't fully understand, at least when they are military emergencies (don't have GS yet)

[tempest.of.emptiness]

In order to be invited to participate in an emergency, you need a stake in it. For example, if a city state is captured, only civs that had envoys with that city state given the opportunity to join the emergency.

[Alex Fury]

That makes sense, but it would be nice to see what the emergency is. In this case, I had envoys at every city-state, but I don't know what the other things were.
I'd have to say that if an emergency won't involve you, you shouldn't see it.
Else it's just confusing.

[Lemurian1972]

Originally posted by Alex Fury:

That makes sense, but it would be nice to see what the emergency is. In this case, I had envoys at every city-state, but I don't know what the other things were.
I'd have to say that if an emergency won't involve you, you shouldn't see it.
Else it's just confusing.

It's important to see them because even if you're not invited, you can join the war later. You're not privy to the rewards, but you do get the benefit of that particular Casus Belli, and could go in and capture cities without grievances.

[kaliman]

My neighbor Saladin supposedly had an emergency, but I was not told what it was. Apparently it was with some other civ, but that's not clear. I figure Saladin's emergency is not my emergency.
I don't like him anyway, he's trying to convert the entire world to his religion. Be that as it may, many turns later that silly woman said I had failed at the emergency and implied I had lost something. What? Money, fame, poker chips? I should do better next time? Well, tell me what the game thinks I should do.

[Aachen]

Originally posted by kaliman:

My neighbor Saladin supposedly had an emergency, but I was not told what it was. Apparently it was with some other civ, but that's not clear. I figure Saladin's emergency is not my emergency.
I don't like him anyway, he's trying to convert the entire world to his religion. Be that as it may, many turns later that silly woman said I had failed at the emergency and implied I had lost something. What? Money, fame, poker chips? I should do better next time? Well, tell me what the game thinks I should do.

Did you have a vote in the relevant emergency? Did you thereby involve yourself in’t?

[Oksennus Oliver]

"In order to be invited to participate in an emergency, you need a stake in it. For example, if a city state is captured, only civs that had envoys with that city state given the opportunity to join the emergency"

Ok this clears things up, been wondering it myself too.

[Aachen]

If one’s declared a formal friendship, they cannot participate in an emergency which would require a declaration of war on the friend, similarly.

[kaliman]

Originally posted by Aachen:

Originally posted by kaliman:

My neighbor Saladin supposedly had an emergency, but I was not told what it was. Apparently it was with some other civ, but that's not clear. I figure Saladin's emergency is not my emergency.
I don't like him anyway, he's trying to convert the entire world to his religion. Be that as it may, many turns later that silly woman said I had failed at the emergency and implied I had lost something. What? Money, fame, poker chips? I should do better next time? Well, tell me what the game thinks I should do.

Did you have a vote in the relevant emergency? Did you thereby involve yourself in’t?

I didn't participate in any vote. I'm not clear I was asked to do anything. Possibly I was supposed to click on an icon on the lower right-hand side to see some instruction?

[Aachen]

The notification would send you to the WC info page—if you had a valid cause for an emergency vote and sufficient diplomatic favor, there you could call an emergency session.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

Originally posted by kaliman:

My neighbor Saladin supposedly had an emergency, but I was not told what it was. Apparently it was with some other civ, but that's not clear. I figure Saladin's emergency is not my emergency.
I don't like him anyway, he's trying to convert the entire world to his religion. Be that as it may, many turns later that silly woman said I had failed at the emergency and implied I had lost something. What? Money, fame, poker chips? I should do better next time? Well, tell me what the game thinks I should do.

That silly woman you are referring to is the Tutorial woman who pop up from time to time when something happen.

She's only there to explain game mechanics to you. It is completely irrelevant to the current game, although she's coded to pop up whenever something linked to what she has to do happen which usually make it relevant to some degree.

[kaliman]

Thank you, yes, Tutorial Woman read me a long sentence or two on the notion that I had "failed,' except that I still don't know what if anything I was supposed to do. In other words, it was more annoying than helpful.

[Eagle_of_Fire]

In truth, you didn't fail anything. She popped up because other civs failed. Those other civs are going to get the negative effect of that failed emergency but you don't.