Bribery Cost Calculations

**Ventos Mustel** · April 02, 2016, 01:21 PM

I couldn't seem to find this info anywhere, so I've decided to do some work to figure it out myself. So far I have the following data:

{bribe cost} = 2 * {EDR recruit cost} / {starting unit size} * {current unit size} * (1 + .2 * {unit experience}) * ({unit can join player's faction} ? 2 : 1) * ({unit can join slave faction} ? 1 : 2)

The presence of a fort, level of weapon and armor upgrades, and the Influence of the diplomat have no effect on the cost of bribery.

Going off of this, bribing becomes more powerful the more units are able to be in the Slave faction, and the closer Recruitment costs are relative to Upkeep costs in the mod being played

**Mithridate** · April 02, 2016, 03:29 PM

Quite useful but what makes you say upkeep is relevant?

The same mechanics seem to work for settlements btw, possibly slightly shifted variables - mostly I'd like to know how generals and FM are calculated, I have a suspicion the mod in question has a lot of cheaper generals to bribe due to the units being treated as "free" and it thus only being the family member. But that be just speculation.

**Ventos Mustel** · April 02, 2016, 03:36 PM

The smaller the ratio between recruitment cost and upkeep, the cheaper it is to bribe someone else's units relative to how much they invested in bringing said units to the front line

**Mithridate** · April 02, 2016, 03:43 PM

Ah, I was so fixed on the actual bribing amounts I did not realize you spoke of cost effectiveness^^ Indeed.
A mention might be worth of diplomats having traits that can reduce bribing costs and that any agents skill = more expensive to be bribed.

( FLeaders and FHeirs can't be bribed, nor priests/imams cuz dey holy - nor anything they are thus embedded in2 )

I prefer when units cannot join as it's usually 4x as expensive to have em join me, bribes are more often to get things out of me way