Removing peace treaties

[Morgan]

In a current PBEM game, one of the players mistakenly agreed to a white peace, thinking that a peace treaty wouldn't keep his country out of a Coalition War. The other players have agreed that the peace treaty can be removed since it was based on a misunderstanding. However, we can't find a way to do it.

We have tried

• Using DiploAdd to try to add a state of war.
• ForceEvent an event that causes a declaration of war.
• Editing the .hst file, but we can't figure out the syntax.
• Giving all of one's ground forces to another Coalition member.

None of them have worked. Is there another option that we are missing?

[Durk]

Peace treaties have a duration. Once entered into, you would just need to wait.

If it is very important to restored the treaty, my suggestion is to roll back the game a turn or two to the turn when the mistake was made. Of course if you have just played on, that may not work.

[Morgan]

Thanks for answering, and I was afraid that that was the answer. I understand why it has to be like that so that players can't get around critical treaties, so I'm not complaining.

I did, however, manage to find a brute-force method that relies on editing the DPL files in the Diplomacy directory, temporarily changing two files so that a player can declare war regardless of any peace treaties, and then canceling out any existing ones, but that is a last ditch way to fix it.

[Durk]

The game architecture does allow for 'heavy' intervention; so good news for your game, but not recommended for the general player.