Protectorate..

**vassal** · December 31, 2007, 11:31 PM

The AI doesn't seem to be contented even though I was a protectorate to them. They keep on sieging my city...Is there any fix to this??

**Paul d** · January 01, 2008, 02:32 AM

AI diplomacy is hardcoded. unless extensive scripting is used, and i mean really heavy scripting, its impossible to control AI diplomacy past a nominal amount.

**Agisilaos** · January 01, 2008, 05:25 AM

yes it is really annoying when u become a protectorate to get betrayed by your "ally". instead of protect u they attack u. what a shame! but this is total war besides lol.

**vassal** · January 01, 2008, 06:23 AM

What I mean is that...what's the use of becoming a protectorate or an ally if they would backbite you after 1 turn...LOL

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**The Sundance Kid** · January 01, 2008, 06:27 AM

Protectorate is one of the most useless things in the world if you become one, because you lose all of your spare cash and they don't honour the alliance anyway. If you can find a miracle and get another faction to become a protectorate to you, thats great, because you'll get all their money and if you dont want to attack them, you wont have to.

**salaminomaxos79** · January 01, 2008, 08:07 AM

Originally Posted by The Sundance Kid

Protectorate is one of the most useless things in the world if you become one, because you lose all of your spare cash and they don't honour the alliance anyway.

i do not agree with you. in fact i find it very useful. for example i will tell u about 1 campaign i had in darth mod. i had the Seleucids in VH/VH and suddenly i was in war with Armenia,Egypt,Pontus,Greek city states and Parthia. they had some alliances with each other and i was in a very bad condition because i had minus in cash and i also had 3-4 cities besieged. so i sent all my diplomats to my enemies and in each turn i was trying to offer them the map information in order to propose me to become a protectorate.with this thing i managed to stay alive, because in return i was asking them for cash 10.000 to become a protectorate and they usually were accepting it. so this way i earned important cash and some of the cities were not besieged for 1 turn. of course they were betraying the alliance the next turn but it didn't matter for me since i could recruit soldiers again and fix my walls even for 1 turn! in that way imanaged to expand and finally destroy the armenians and parthians, even though eventually my empire was split in 2 different places.