Diplomats

**TheGovna** · January 04, 2011, 10:58 PM

Hi everyone. Ive always wondered what it meant when another factions diplomat goes to one of your cities and opens and closes their scroll without bringing up the diplomacy panel. Are they giving you money? Are they warning you that theyre going to go to war with you? What is it?

**Jean=A=Luc** · January 04, 2011, 11:08 PM

They're trying to bribe your ass.

**Han the Roman** · January 05, 2011, 12:53 AM

lol good answer man, (Jean=A=Luc) i asked myself this question years ago and i figured it out soon after, i figured if they were trying to contact me with a proposition the panel would show up, so i assume they were talking to the settlements governor, aka trying to bribe his ass

**Spike** · January 05, 2011, 05:38 AM

Learned it the hard way in vanilla, when my silver chevroned urban stacks in capua are bribed by the julii, along with that city coz i put my capital at greek lands.

**dr0p** · January 05, 2011, 06:22 AM

They're trying to bribe you. The next step is usually a scroll titled BEYTRAED!

**General Brittanicus** · January 05, 2011, 06:39 AM

If that happens to me, i start moving forces towards my border with them as i know they will soon declare war on me.

**bigmilt16** · January 05, 2011, 09:43 AM

attempts to bribe = prelude to war

**TheGovna** · January 05, 2011, 10:51 AM

Well fiddlesticks. Im playing as rome and have been campaigning to oust carthage out of spain with the gallaeci as my ally. And now theyre doing this nonsense?

**Sephiroth88** · January 05, 2011, 10:55 AM

The AI diplomacy in RTW engine pretty much sucks and there is no much a modder can do to fix or improve it as I've read around the forums.

**Gromovnik** · January 05, 2011, 01:27 PM

Gallaeci will attack you. You should strike hard. Strike without mercy.

**Brusilov** · January 05, 2011, 08:18 PM

To reduce the likelyhood of a settlement or army being bribed make sure you have a diplomat in the settlement and any army that is not lead by a general or family member. It makes the stack more expensive to bribe. That is not to say that a settlement or army with a general/family member canot be bribed - they are just more expensive to bribe.

You should also consider including in an army stack some assassins and spies. These will reduce the chance that the family member / general will be assassinated.....