calvinus wrote:For the diplomacy issue, I already introduced some improvements in latest patch, to make diplomatic AI move better towards neutral countries. Indeed I personally watched AI putting a major effort on nations such as Bulgaria, Italia, Rumania, Turkey, and so on... Probably you experienced a passive diplomatic behaviour in the later war period, when all nations that can bring a military effort have been already involved in the conflict. Is this your case? If so, you see enemy AI stressing its attention to economically useful nations, because there's no real interest on the other powers, isn't it?
No, I mean even 1914-15, when the diplomatic struggle in the real war was at a very high level, and here ... I'll explain. I played for the Central Powers on 4 levels of difficulty. At the beginning of the war, I drew to his side to Turkey (as in reality) and Italy (Austria agreed to give her some territories), and the Entente to Belgium, too, so in reality, but I used to be the case when Belgium joined the war as a separate state neutral, fought against Germany, but remained in the list of neutrals (in the main menu), and then I had the event somewhere in 1917 "Entente declared war to Belgium", and Belgium joined the Central Powers, but most likely it was a bug, because in reality it could not be sure. Anyway, back to the topic. Then I tried to win over Romania, receive, Romania has already took the pro-central position and only a couple of failed attempts trying to make the Entente, well it certainly has been an absurdity, I calmly drew Romania to yourself. Then I quietly attracted to countries such as Bulgaria and Greece, who also is why Greece is itself entered the war, without any influence. Albania, of course I just occupied, I always did because of it gain a little, but she has a good pair of ports that I could come in handy, though ...

In short while I was attracted strong neutral power on their side, the Entente made some nonsense at the beginning of the war in trying to reach some agreement with Spain, Norway and others neutral countries, which I then lured to his side, but somewhere in the 1917. Entente subsequently able to attract to their side only to Japan and Brazil (which in any case for the Entente, and Japan also), even the U.S., they could not enter the war, although all this was promoted by, well, this of course is nonsense on the part of enemy diplomats.

calvinus wrote:Lenin and Russian Revolution - I saw Russian Revolution breaking out in late 1916 and managed to put Lenin in charge in 1917. Play it several times and you'll see that performaces of Russia can change over time. Also, consider that other events can bring to different outcomes in Russian Revolution, such as Kerenski or Kornilov...
I meant that in the game, Russia was in perfect order until its withdrawal from the war (because of excessive losses and territorial losses, but not because of the Revolution), although the revolution had to happen anyway, regardless of the situation in the fronts. Additionally, Russia remained the monarchical state, its political system is not changed.