Bizarre Tribute

**Quacky** · June 05, 2007, 05:45 PM

Im just wondering if anyone else has had this happen as it seems a bit weird.

I was basically playing along as Sparta quite happily, conquered Athens and was invading Macedon. As I normally do I had sent off diplomats all over the place to go get trade rights and stuff. Anyway I had this diplomat standing around in Lydia with nothing much to do. I thought why not just ask them for a bit of money so I demanded 100 denarii, there was no reason for them to give me this, I was no where near them with an army they were pretty big, we were neutral etc... So then they counter-offer and say actually we'd like to give you 343 denarii. I thought oh thank you very much and accepted and then they gave a big grovelling, we thankyou for accepting our offer thing.

**Paul d** · June 05, 2007, 05:54 PM

huh?

**Zenith Darksea** · June 05, 2007, 06:47 PM

I've had this in Europa Barbarorum as well. I was playing as Epeiros and tried to sell my map info to the Koinon Hellenon. They said no thanks, but would prefer to give me a gift of 2,500 Mnai. The next turn they gave me another gift. The weird thing was that the turn after that they attacked me!

**rez** · June 07, 2007, 06:31 AM

Beware Greeks bearing gifts!

**Sigma** · June 07, 2007, 09:33 AM

Probably should have gave them a gift back, that usually keeps them from attacking... the greeks love the trojan horse trick

**Zenith Darksea** · June 07, 2007, 12:29 PM

But I didn't see the point in their gift! I just used it to train troops to crush them.

**The Sundance Kid** · June 07, 2007, 12:32 PM

its better when i say "give me 1000dn, or i will attack!!!!" and theyre like "no, we'd actually like to give you a CITY and 3000dn. how about that?"

and im like "coooooool." then attack them