[0.9] SCENARIO BUG

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Can declare war on the empires that I have permanent war with. I can also trade with them. :|

 

I can also make my allies sign non-aggression pacts with me, and demand tribute. Again these are my permanent allies.

 

If this is not a bug, but rather a scheme to give the player money, either give the player bonus starting gildar, or simply have the ai's tell the player, "here is some Gildar."

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

this one is definitely a problem in the scenario.  All you have to do is start diplomacy with someone that you're permanently at war with and you can trade as per if they were not at war with you.

Reply #2 from Elemental Forums Top

Also, your perma-allies offering you tribute doesn't make sense. 

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting davrovana, reply 2
Also, your perma-allies offering you tribute doesn't make sense.
End of davrovana's quote

I think the "Tribute" options are misnamed.  It's not a demand for money or else you'll attack.  It's more of a loan, paid back over time.  In the typical case it involves you paying 10% of your income for some number of turns in return for an immediate cash payment, or vice versa.  Also typically, I don't have enough information at the time of the offer to determine if it's a good deal or not (since I can't check my current income from within the trade dialog), so I always turn it down.

Reply #4 from Elemental Forums Top

I noticed similar, and I have empire factions warn me about the then highest-scoring empire faction being a mutual threat.

Reply #5 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Publius, reply 3


Quoting davrovana, reply 2Also, your perma-allies offering you tribute doesn't make sense.

I think the "Tribute" options are misnamed.  It's not a demand for money or else you'll attack.  It's more of a loan, paid back over time.  In the typical case it involves you paying 10% of your income for some number of turns in return for an immediate cash payment, or vice versa.  Also typically, I don't have enough information at the time of the offer to determine if it's a good deal or not (since I can't check my current income from within the trade dialog), so I always turn it down.
End of Publius's quote

How's it a loan? If you take tribute, you get paid up front AND over time. If you give tribute, you pay up front and over time. 

Reply #6 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting davrovana, reply 5
How's it a loan?
End of davrovana's quote

I'm going from memory, in an earlier beta it worked like I said.  They would ask for 10% of your income and offer to pay you some amount for it.  Trying to do it now in the scenario I see that I can't offer a similar deal.  If the AI player offers you 10% of their income and says that they would be willing to pay you some amount more to convince you to take it, it's even stupider than I thought.

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Publius, reply 6
If the AI player offers you 10% of their income and says that they would be willing to pay you some amount more to convince you to take it, it's even stupider than I thought.
End of Publius's quote

 

This is how I've always understood it to work, always makes me SMFH.

Reply #8 from Elemental Forums Top

In my latest game, Capitar has popped up to "Offer Tribute".  They're offering me 50 gildar up front.  But hovering over the "Offer Tribute" brings up a tooltip that says it gives 10% "of your income to the other faction".  You can see my confusion.  But after actually accepting it, I see that it works the way you say it does, which as I said seems stupid.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Offering/demanding tribute is basically a NAP being paid for by the weaker faction.  It makes no sense to have your permanent allies paying you for 30 turns to do something you were never going to do anyway.