diplomacy alliances during the game?

[puppypawsie]

is it possible to start without teams and make alliance and wars during the games? i cant find any option for this it seems like everyone hates my clan even with trading very long times they just wait until my armies are not around and invade me similar to the mongoles to the chinese wall in this southpark episode.....

[Bolt]

No. Only negotiating with other players via chat and hoping they won't betray you. Other than with neutrals the game has no diplomacy, and that's mostly about whether they're hostile or allied (with potential benefits then being active). That whole "soured relations" thing when attacking a player or AI never meant anything other than that you're "at war" with who you attacked, so that trading with that faction is disabled.

An AI will always try to attack you for territory it wants or an exposed weakness. Any zone an enemy AI can reach that lacks a tower is marked for an attack later on, when it has nothing better to do. Surprisingly actual defenders seem to count as less of a threat than a tower does. Probably because the AI doesn't dynamically change its targets and units are more squishy, with exceptions.

[puppypawsie]

hmmm ok after reading so much about diplomacy in some update news this seems like a tease and a softscam... i was not expecting a big diplomacy screen but atleast a lil interaction like in age of empires 2 instead of a diplomacy screen which does nothing and has zero interaction with other factions/players.