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Ah, so that's prolly what the neutral npc did. Married and geared up.

Curious, but on two of my late game runs the only female npcs I ran into that I could recruit looked like standard peasant / dressed types. Nothing special. Then I noticed that one of the neutral town's king was married and his wife was decked out in armor with a sword, but I've only seen her that one time. Did I just not build fast enough to attract this slightly more unique looking female npc or do certain factions / neutral parties start with different op

How do you increase the value of your treaties? Whenever I want to try my own treaties are numbered in the hundreds, with an enemy or neutral in the thousands.

[quote who="Melamine" reply="3" id="2745251"]Heh. As for the bug, the AI appears to be cheating or something of the sort. What difficulty setting did you use for that opponent?[/quote] Large map - All factions but one on the map (lag feast). Normal mode for the map and the factions. Started out fine. Found my Empire neighbor, rushed him to claim his resources. Found that my entire map had no iron at all. On a

[quote who="Melamine" reply="1" id="2745226"] quoting post I'm hoping that's a bug, since if I don't have money, I can't build 90% of homeowners would disagree![/quote] Oh I see, so that's the problem. I wasn't taking out a loan from the government I was running to stay competitive. Silly me!

Just lost my first game that I've been able to play more than 6-7 hours between patch updates and work. Eventually reached a point where I was at war with someone whose army was "much stronger than mine" and kept churning out units like mad. Basically forced me to turtle as I couldn't get units out fast enough to try and invade and take out a resource or two. Eventually I attempted to negotiate a cease fire and noticed that Yithril had negative 20,000 gold. &nbsp