Merchants and Guilds

[nickname]

At first the Merchants.
It always seems like the AI merchants are way better then the ones of the player. My Merchants are far from home in a country with a different religion on exotic wares. But they won't get more then 5 or 6 Stars most of the time. And then one 1 Star AI Merchant comes allong and he kill my.
Where are the bonuses for the AI, I want to delet them.
Even my 10 star merchants are killed by 4 Star AI merchants. Try that with your own 4 star...


And Second guilds.
I build all my merchants, asassins, spies and priests at one city. I just got the headquarter of the priests. After a long time the headquater of the merchants was build in a city I never recruit one and I never send one for the recources.
Are there some cheats like the add_population or add_money to get more reputation for one of the special buildings? The millitary buildings I can get with recruting troops. But how to get and control the others.
I never got the stoneguild. Even while making a village in one round to the largest city with cheats and building every building.
So, are there some cheats or hints.

[preachercheeze]

At first the Merchants.
It always seems like the AI merchants are way better then the ones of the player. My Merchants are far from home in a country with a different religion on exotic wares. But they won't get more then 5 or 6 Stars most of the time. And then one 1 Star AI Merchant comes allong and he kill my.
Where are the bonuses for the AI, I want to delet them.
Even my 10 star merchants are killed by 4 Star AI merchants. Try that with your own 4 star...


And Second guilds.
I build all my merchants, asassins, spies and priests at one city. I just got the headquarter of the priests. After a long time the headquater of the merchants was build in a city I never recruit one and I never send one for the recources.
Are there some cheats like the add_population or add_money to get more reputation for one of the special buildings? The millitary buildings I can get with recruting troops. But how to get and control the others.
I never got the stoneguild. Even while making a village in one round to the largest city with cheats and building every building.
So, are there some cheats or hints.

AFAIK AI merchants (almost) never attack anyone that has 4 or more finance... is it so that it is you that try to attack other merchants? It might be so that the SS 6.3 have changed merchant aggresiveness, but I haven't noted it yet...

If you do a search on the forums, there are many threads that explains the guild points and how to achieve them...

EDIT: aw, heck... http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...69#post7710769

I explain how the guild points system works in that link...

[nickname]

I know how it works and what I have to do.

And no, I never attacked merchants. Even with 10 stars my merchant will be killed at 100% against a 4 star. (Not the sucsessrate but he won't win but the AI will everytime win).
The best thing, if no merchant of the AI will finish my merchants, I know arround 10 locations where my merchants lost there recorce by an walking army that took theire place...

I just thougt, that the merchantpoints are mostly given to the city that produced them (like to have the headquarter in Constantinopoli and not Thessaloniki . As I said. Even after building all in a city in one turn i won't get the masons. Swordsmith and Horsebreeders I got allready where I wanted them. But I don't know if the AI got the Headquartet allready.

I hoped there where some codes so that I could control better where the guilds are build.
But if this is all *is sending some fleets far from home* The AI won't build ships, so I don't need my ships.

[worldsdead]

here's a link to a thread with some good info on ai merch's in 6.3. they're scripted to own you, lol.
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=379854