Whitelight25 wrote:

If I capture a culture's 4 base scouts I can declare war based on trespassing every turn and get an insane amount of gold by treating this culture as a punching bag, is this working as intended?

mm I might ask you for some save files and screenshots. Because on Neolithic there is no diplomacy, and therefore you can't declare war.
I think there is an edge case related to this topic, but i will need a bit more of info.

They eventually pick an ancient culture but if you don't let them build a city and you conquer your continent, you can beat them like a pinata. I generally play Humankind, Normal size, 3 continents with a new world and 30% land. I'm playing another game with the same settings and went harder in the paint, captured 3 ancient tribes, 2 are expansionists so they're harder to go to war with but I can generally keep going to war and get some pretty decent gold, haven't tried this with gold boosts yet so I'm sure I could break it harder with this.  

Franks Turn 89.ctr

Whitelight25 wrote:

Franks Turn 89.ctr

This is the file I'm playing right now, I have the Assyrians, Bantu, and Babylonians on my continent with only their initial 4 or fewer scouts. Once I destroy their scouts they get their initial 4 back so they never die. I honestly can see it as balanced as any culture willing to enslave 3 others more or less might be making some money off that, just wasn't sure if you intended players to play like sociopaths in this manner or not.

I don't have the other save available but Horatio's bias of "prideful"; allowed me to force surrender for 5k (Early Modern), get 3 trespassing demands in, and then he would immediately refuse those demands so I could declare war and force surrender every turn. 

Whitelight25 wrote:

Whitelight25 wrote:

Franks Turn 89.ctr

This is the file I'm playing right now, I have the Assyrians, Bantu, and Babylonians on my continent with only their initial 4 or fewer scouts. Once I destroy their scouts they get their initial 4 back so they never die. I honestly can see it as balanced as any culture willing to enslave 3 others more or less might be making some money off that, just wasn't sure if you intended players to play like sociopaths in this manner or not.

We took note about it, just moved this thread to bug reports.
Thanks for letting us know