Diplomacy Trick/Bug

[Gromnik]

This trick is useful in the early game, when you don't have much money for diplomatic gifts if you want to remain friendly with another faction.

I have noticed that when you hold the mouse over a country you can see your diplomatic status.
When you give a faction a diplomatic gift your reputation with them goes up by 100, and it doesn't seem to matter if you give $2500, or $10000.
+100 is the most you can get as well, so repeated gifts are useless.

If you go into the paypents section and give a faction $1, your reputation goes up by one.
You can do this repeatedly (but it gets very tedious) for a max bonus of +51.

I have used this previously to get factions from being hostile to friendly with a payment of only $51!
This can help you get trade agreements easier and also help with the expansion penalty.

I don't use this trick much any more, but it was quite useful when I was new to the game and got my arse kicked on a regular basis.

[caralampio]

What's paypents? Where you regularly give/take money in diplomacy I assume?

Can you give the 51 bucks outright to get +51 or it has to be 1 by 1?

[Abdul'Allah]

What's paypents? Where you regularly give/take money in diplomacy I assume?

Can you give the 51 bucks outright to get +51 or it has to be 1 by 1?

You can't. You are getting 1 point for each donation. So it doesn't matter if the donation is 1 o 100,000. You'll get one.

[Gromnik]

Yes, where you would pay someone for a tech for example. Where you can offer or demand payments. Sorry for not being very clear the first time.

Unfortunately it has to be one by one.

Now I'm off to go learn how to spell.