How do I set up a game where all civs are always at war with each other.

[stevel]

I see there is a permanent war/ permanent peace setting, so do I need to

tick that option
Start the game
Go into the world builder and set all the civs to be at war with each other. (or maybe get a friend to do this so I don't know the whole world)

Is there a better way in XML or python?

[snoopy369]

Ticking the option "always war" does it directly. As soon as you make contact with a civ, you become at war with it, and can't make peace

[stevel]

Yeah but how do I make sure the other civs are always at war with each other?

[Bhruic]

You can do it fairly easily via Python. I'm not going to do the whole code for you here, but the default CvEventManager.py file has an "onFirstContact" function. All you'd need to do is override that function and do a forced war declaration (with permanent war checked).

Bh

[MoonWolf]

This I must check out! I also thought (and hoped) that "always war" was everyone in war with each other.

Stevel, if you make a mod for it, can you post it here? I don't know when I have time to look into this myself....

BTW, do you have war weariness when always war is on?