Pontus Bosphorus event

[Death's Deputy]

Currently playing as Pontus for the first time, very hard but enjoying it. I've managed to secure most of northern and central Anatolia, and so I decided to respond to Cheroneus' (sorry for spelling!) cry for help and send my faction leader and some units to the crimea.

The original message suggested that if I sent a competent general (my faction leader has great stats so he's defo competent) to help the Bosphorus people against the Sarmatians, they would join me.

I found the stack in the woods, which is pretty strong, and another event kicked in. A diplomat spawned, and a message told me to approach the rebel stack in the woods, offer them a bribe and they'd join me for a fairly small fee.

I did this, and they refused. I reloaded, ensured the script was activated, and tried again. Again they refused to even consider joining me. I thought perhaps I was wrong and should bribe the city itself, so I reloaded again, activated the script, but they refused me too.

I then thought that maybe I had to wait a turn before doing this, but the rebel stack who was meant to be joining me attacked my forces and wiped everyone out.

Is this event broken. or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance!

[Nad]

You actually need to bribe them with some decent money for them to join you...they won't join for free! You probably didn't have enough cash.

[Death's Deputy]

Okay, I'll try doing it with some more money in my treasury.

[seleucid empire]

I've never successfully bribed them before. Tw last time I tried I had like 9000 in my treasury.

[athanaric]

Bribing sums also depend on your total amount of cash. If you have any buildings or units queued up (I frequently do this to avoid having too much money in the treasury, it gives your generals vile traits), un-queue them (unless they're already partly built of course. This will also free up additional mnai.
At a certain point in your Pontos campaign, you should be swimming in cash, anyway - usually already after you've taken two or three Seleukid provinces in Anatolia. Sardeis in particular is a huge source of revenue.

[Petite Wolf]

Bribing sums also depend on your total amount of cash. If you have any buildings or units queued up (I frequently do this to avoid having too much money in the treasur, it gives your generals vile traits)

So that's why people queue up buildings. I've always wondered why and assumed it was so it didn't look like they had so much cash - which they did, because all that idle money was still idle, the only difference was it wasn't directly in their treasury but instead sitting idle in a building waiting to be built.

[seleucid empire]

So that's why people queue up buildings. I've always wondered why and assumed it was so it didn't look like they had so much cash - which they did, because all that idle money was still idle, the only difference was it wasn't directly in their treasury but instead sitting idle in a building waiting to be built.

Yeah it's quite annoying, cause corruption can take like 20k out of your revenue. And to fix it, you need a huge war where you,can spend your money aswell as throw your corrupt generals into (to die)