Personal Relations

How nice are you supposed to be to your neighbors? If you help build them up, they can protect you with defensive pacts and by weakening enemies before they get to your borders. But they also could grow as strong or stronger than you and can compete for territorial expansion, new trades and military prowess. At the beginning of each game, the playing characters are introduced to you. At this point, a decision must be made: war or peace. But this is only the beginning. Throughout the game, the other leaders initiate trade talks. How do you know when a trade is even or beneficial for you. And if one side has all of the resources while the other has very limited to trade with, will the trade even be helpful? When one side asks the other for a civility and give nothing in return, how do know whether to give it to them or not? These questions deal with the strategy of the game; one that is ever-changing and requires constant upkeep. The situations and decisions change from game to game, era to era and character to character.