News

How to make alliances?

Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2014

I'm trying to make an alliance with a neighbor. They are currently "Happy" with me. I've researched all the Treaties and Alliance techs. We've exchanged all the treaties.

No "Alliance" options show up.

I gave my neighbor all of the Alliance techs. Still no "Alliance" options pop up.

Is "Happy" not enough? If not what can I do to go beyond happy? Here is what is making them happy:

  • Have a cultural treaty
  • Have an open borders treaty
  • We're trading
  • I have higher diplomacy rating
  • I have a strong military

The only "-" is we share borders. Not much I can do about that. We've never gone to war. In fact I've defended his colonies and I gave him two planets.

Oh and "Cultural Treaty", "Free Trade Agreement", and "Slave Brokering" keep showing up in the treaty trade list even though we've already exchanged them.