Someone explain bribes

[Mr.Jester]

For starters, I obviously know what they are. I know what they can do in the game, and have seen it in other games as well.

But after a bit of personal research I also saw that it's stubborn in Medieval 2.

Now, I tried going to settlements, and offering bribes to people (allies and neutrals) and got rejected numerous times, and even after spawning vast amounts of money from cheats, they refuse.

Can someone point out the system to which bribes are used and how I can affect the outcome?

In the mod, I play as the empire. Can I bribe other empire or enemies generals to join me? Say, having a single vampire lord and some of his undead followers join me, that sounds awesome. Or even just having some of the hard-to-get special units by stealing them from my allies, like deaths head or bright wizards.

Or is the system just kind of not allow bribes all together? If so, can someone point me to a mod or something like that, where I can unlock the full potential of recruiting other powers other then my own? (Recruiting other factions nobles and bribing settlements to my faction)

What is required to do so?

[Vossie]

I don't think bribes are changed in this mod. Bribes are mostly to persuade small armies ( Without generals for higher chance ) to stop fighting you. ( Units you can recruit will become yours, however if you're not able to recruit them they won't join you but just disband. ) You could bribe settlements with small forces in them. The chance of succession depends on the skill of the Dipolmat, the General ( If any) and the size of the City/Force you're bribing. Bribing chances are mostly very low because you could imagine how OP this could be.

Some more information can be found here:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...and-Oher-Stuff
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...d-how-to-do-it

[zax]

Bribes seems to be disabled, open descr_campaign_db.xml, navigate to

<bribery>
      <bribe_to_family_tree bool="false"/>
      <base_character_chance float="0.0"/>

and change to eg: <base_character_chance float="0.5"/>. Start a new game.

[Mr.Jester]

Thanks guys