Obviously I'm doing something wrong, going the diplomatic route seems to fail miserably. Regardless of how many diplomatic buildings I make I'm viewed as weak for not having a military and then everyone's at war with me at some point before 150. Which is awesome...
I just want to trade and be peaceful, I don't want to go the military route for the sake of deterrence and I'm assuming the game allows for this and I'm just not going about it the right way. Sorry to actually post a strategy thread given the complete dearth of threads relevant to "strategy" on a strategy game, I figured it would probably be taboo to bring it up at all but what the heck... Feel free to continue posting about something completely irrelevant to strategy if this doesn't peak your interest, I don't mind, the latest bug(s) probably hasn't been mentioned 100 times yet so better get on that instead.