Grovelling Diplomats which offer nothing but waste time

[Scorpius_Brutii]

Anyway to remove them, or is it hardcoded?

[Stella]

In my current campaign I have three Scottish princesses who go through their little unskippable animation every single damn turn at one of my castles. I am currently training up assassins to kill them but it's really annoying. WHat are they doing anyway?

[Maniacal]

Bribing.

[Lulian]

Bribing.

Really? o.o

[Faramir D'Andunie]

I could be wrong about this but, wasn't there a bug with diplomats/princesses appearing to be offering some form of diplomatic proposal when they were idling next to a settlement while they were doing nothing?

[delra]

Send your diplomat to them and give them some cash, preferably tribute. This will make their princesses go away. Or declare war on them if you feel like it.

Them trying to bribe your cities means you're on the verge of war.

[Scorpius_Brutii]

Send your diplomat to them and give them some cash, preferably tribute. This will make their princesses go away. Or declare war on them if you feel like it.

Them trying to bribe your cities means you're on the verge of war.

I don't get it, because in many instances we're allies, or even 'reasonable' relations. There's also the Spanish who camped an army outside my city and grovelled with 3 of their diplomats for a full 20 turns before...doing nothing and going away

Annoying.

[Don in the North]

if you mean prevent them from being recruited, you could edit their costs to be 1,000,000 florins.
i think you would have to edit cost for each factions diplomat so depending on mod there could be over 20 to change.
wordpad search-replace would work if you could get the exact line, im not sure which edu file controls costs, but youll find it

[nick312]

i know this is the wrong thread but i just started playing SS and i was wondering when, if it does at all, gunpowder is invented

[Inhuman One]

wrong thread indeed, it wasnt invented by groveling diplomats.

[nick312]

who cares just answer the question

[aduellist]

who cares just answer the question

Good way to win friends and influence people.

Back on topic...

Over the years I've played a couple of mods that eliminate diplomats. There are several drawbacks. No trade rights, no alliances, no way to end wars other than completely destroying the enemy (okay, that's not necessarily a bad thing ). You can still use Princesses to perform these tasks when available, of course.

Removal is pretty straightforward, if you care to try a game without them.

Edit descr_strat.txt and remove all starting diplomats.

Edit export_descr_buildings.txt and remove the ability to recruit them.

Start new campaign.

If the hovering diplomats really start to bug me, I just surround and kill them.

[Tacitursa]

I could be wrong about this but, wasn't there a bug with diplomats/princesses appearing to be offering some form of diplomatic proposal when they were idling next to a settlement while they were doing nothing?

It's not a bug they are attempting to Bribe and failing. The diplomacy window dosent show up because no sane person is going to say yes for obvious reasons.

The only way around it is assasins but that gives a reputation hit and dread to your generals. Good reputation and chivalry are alot better than the former so its better to just let them get on with it untill there's a fix

[Neige]

Anyway to remove them, or is it hardcoded?

Diplomacy can be very helpful, esspecially if you have a lot of money. And removing diplomats from the game might not be the best thing to do.

Diplomats and princesses, standing at your cities doing nothing, can be really annoying, I know. But there has to be some way to fix that bug. I am not a modder, but I'm sure there is someone who can do this.

[Daneboy]

You can just press "space bar" and it will go a lot faster.

[Radiso-FIN]

If there is one particularly annoying diplomat who keeps bothering me with nothing I usually try to assassinate him.

[Bobsters34]

Assassination?

[lordextra0]

with 9 units of .....peasants lol
no seriously now
if you sorroound him and then put a ninth unit on him he'll die
but it will count as natural death since well......
your 1600 peasants are ....blind or really stupid(also works with other units)

[Inhuman One]

they arent blind or stupid, they are simply brilliant compared to your assasins since they can make it seem like a natural death.

[Cleitanious]

LOL, 1600peasants to kill a diplmat.