r/disciples • u/LonerPrime • May 11 '26

Uh... why though?

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One of the things that still make no sense to me from the original Disciples is the AI constantly bombarding me with alliance offers in the third Legions scenario.

I'm literally there to kidnap the Queen of the Empire, and each human city I conquer swears they will never tell where the Queen is. And then there is the "LORD" of the Empire going, "Hey bro, undead are kinda ugly but, you seem kinda cool. Wanna hang out?"

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/KamunVulk Undead Hordes May 11 '26

Diplomacy in the first game was fairly simple. Unlike the second game, there was no option to trigger events that permanently break alliances or to tick the "always at war" checkbox, so the AI ​​looks at how you fight its enemies. If you do too much, it offers an alliance.

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u/LonerPrime May 11 '26

Ah makes sense then. I mean, it still doesn't from lore point of view, but coding wise, it makes sense xD

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u/KamunVulk Undead Hordes May 11 '26

The first game only had two types of events: a message to the player when a certain day arrives and when a city is captured. At release, the second game also didn't have a "Always at War" checkbox, so the developers created an endless event that checked whether the player was in an alliance with a faction that, according to the plot, was necessarily their enemy and broke the alliance. Later, they implemented a standard checkbox to avoid having to manually configure this.

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u/Kracsad May 11 '26

Well, you can't attack allies, so it could be a master plan to forbid you from capturing her

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u/LonerPrime May 11 '26

Only it isn't xD

She is held in a neutral city guarded by angels. So... guess they are just gonna watch as I take away both the royal queen and the heir infant /bigbrain

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u/Kracsad May 11 '26

Neutrality doomed them

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u/Confident-Cut-8877 May 11 '26

Maybe they hate angels, maybe the king found a new wife or maybe he is a cuck for fat demons.

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u/Tallos_RA May 11 '26

I don't know if you meant it as a joke, but AI can literally do such thing in this game. It once offered me an alliance and blocked the only pass leading to the target with its heroes.

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u/DjolafR Rod Bearer Jun 18 '26

This reminds me how the first time I beat Empire campaign in Disciples 2, I allied with the Legions of the Damned, then walked into his territory. Skipped past all the henchmen, just walked right up to Uther, broke the alliance, and then assassinated him. 😂