Overview
This guide will help you turn off the warmonger penalties. You will be able to declare aggressive wars, help your allies, do joint wars, capture cities…etc. without diplomatic penalties.
How to remove warmonger penalties
Note: Patch changed contents of the file listed in this guide. If you made my changes before the patch, you will have to make them again.
I wasn’t actually gonna post this guide because I thought most people didn’t care about warmongering but i’ve seen alot of recent discussions on the subject so…
This guide will help you turn off warmonger penalties completely. Without this change you get a bunch of annoying situations. An A.I. might ask you to declare war on his enemy and then denounce you as a warmonger for agreeing. (Update: Previous was fixed in the last patch I believe) If an A.I. attacks you but you capture their city in response, you’re a warmonger. Etc. If you’re here, you probibly know about these situations.
So let’s fix it. Go to your steam folder (Usually under C: program files (x86)). Then click on steam apps – common – sid meier’s civilization vi – base – assets – gameplay – data and find the file called “Eras”. Backup the file by copy+pasting it somewhere else. Once done, right click on the original and select “Edit”. Search for:
WarmongerPoints=
This will be followed by a number in quotations. This phrase will also be found on 8 lines in a row. On every line, change the number to “0” All 8 lines should now say
WarmongerPoints=”0″
There will be a bunch of additional text before and after this phrase. Leave the rest of the text, only change that one number on each line. Once done, save the file and you are good to go.
You will no longer get any warmonger penalties with civilizations, even if you declare a surprise war. While this does nullify the cassus belli system, it’s a necessary evil. You can declare wars for your allies and not have them denounce you for it. You can capture cities from your attackers and suffer no penalties with other civs. You will still get all the other positive and negative ratings for capturing cities though (-12, you occupy one of our cities)…etc.
Note: Gandhi’s agenda will not be affected. He will still call you a warmonger if you declare war but it’s an agenda penalty, not a warmonger penalty.
Hope this helps.