Sid Meir's Civilization: Beyond Earth

[Chad32]

The AI is funky sometimes. In a recent game I found out one of my neighbors was the Mayans, who are big warmongerers. On the other side was a civ who actually asked me to join a war with them. I thought "Ok, give me some time, and we'll hit them from both sides". For one reason or another, The other civ made peace right as I was getting my army together to ransack a Mayan city.

I figured this might be coercion from the Mayans, so I continued and razed a city. Now the other civ, who asked me to attack, things I'm a warmongerer. Now I have a penalty to diplomacy for attacking the guy he wanted to attack, and also he covets my lands despite not even bordering me.

With the Russians they might just be an untrustworthy faction. Their bonus towards military resources could make them aggressive enough to not get along well with others.

I think the AI takes advantage of your weaknesses in some situations.  I always found myself being asked by another civ to join them in a war against another, even though I was strong enough to defend I did not have enough military resources to make a solid attack, which does take time to build.  I never join in an alliance for war because of that reason.  I don't have a dog in that fight.

I mainly did it because I didn't like the idea of bordering a militarily geared faction. Might have been the Aztecs, actually. When the diplomatic screen shows a guy with wild eyes, behind a flaming brazier, it's not a good sign.

On another topic, one thing I don't like about the new DLC is that they removed the gold bonus from rivers. That +1 gold was half the reason I liked building by rivers so much.

Yeah, Angry Joe wasn't highly impressed with the new game. it will probably get better with time, though.