sometimes I fight, if I feel fun to do so.
often I know, that devs didn't solve the fails with scoreeses
and other unbalanced things in battles,
and I'm not motivated to clobber enemies who shure are stranger than my army.
If it looks like an interesting thing to think about how I can win, I'm always trying and sometimes try more than one time in case of the fun.
The more I get into higher rings, the less that is so.
-> but negotiating is always possible and what else to do with the piles of goods which now are useless, because all upgrading is done?
(ok, I could build those ornate streets, but they are ugly to my taste, I more like the cobbled streets with their blue border and straight lines,
the ornate streets remind my to tapeworms (zestoden) and why should I force my population to hopple from plate to plate after they had real streets to walk?)