whatevs6969

"Without trying to sound mean, you are incorrect. Geography was a major reason why with Swiss remained neutral." Trying to sound mean here, I'd say your reading comp needs a check. Their point about terrain was used as a reason for why the Germans never bothered with a full scale invasion and preferred to trade with them instead. It wasn't brought up as a reason for their neutrality, that was a position you took in your post and was irrelevant to theirs and

"Back when wars were commonly raging in Europe they had enough of a military, that given the terrain of their country which gave them enormous defensive advantages, attempting to invade them would be somewhat suicidal for any would be aggressors." Lets see here, no, no and...... no. At no point in their history did their militia or terrain play a factor in deterring invasion. They played politics and used economics to their advantage every time. They were an asset to the

"I may be wrong but I doubt this is possible in this game, or in real life." It is, I basically want the be the Switzerland of the galaxy, but it seems you're right and that this game won't allow for that. I'll just build up a deterrent military and waste time researching stuff irrelevant to my preferred style of play. You'd think my complete lack of military in favor of diplomacy and trade would make me more of an asset to others

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 rig