To give everyone a more complete idea what influences relations to elite AI:
Actions that improve your popularity with AI:
- being enemy with their enemies
- being friends (having good relations) with them and their friends
- trading with them
Actions that decrease your popularity with AI:
- having peace or better relations with their enemies
- having bad diplomatic relations or war with them or their friends
- starting new wars without declaring them
- when producing alot of troops while already being unpopular
- having troops in their country without right of way
- getting your spies caught by them
Actions that improve your popularity with AI:
- being enemy with their enemies
- being friends (having good relations) with them and their friends
- trading with them
Actions that decrease your popularity with AI:
- having peace or better relations with their enemies
- having bad diplomatic relations or war with them or their friends
- starting new wars without declaring them
- when producing alot of troops while already being unpopular
- having troops in their country without right of way
- getting your spies caught by them