What appeared to be an oddity in current game:
Rome was the big fish runaway and had a mighty empire before a beastly English warmonger cut him down to 2 fairly crappy cities and then accepted peace deal that took all his cash. In predictable fashion 2 other civs then DOW'd him.
Rome then proceeds to win CS allies at a rate of knots (well I think he managed 4). How?
1. I checked his cash situation - deplorable, 0 savings (obviously) and fairly negative.
2. No patronage SP
3. No units left to kill barbs with or whatever other CS quests.
His influence with his new buddies was never 'just there' - always 90+ min. There were no notifications about him having the most faith/culture/tech over the last 90 turns or whatever, and he certainly hadn't built any wonders in his remaining cities.
Only thing I could think was that as an AI civ he was being allowed to bribe them on credit? But if that were so he wasn't 1000's gp negative, about -40ish. I don't remember but I don't think he had any income.
It made no difference to my position in the game, and the thread isn't a complaint of any kind; but I was left scratching my head and wondering how he did it - any thoughts?
Rome was the big fish runaway and had a mighty empire before a beastly English warmonger cut him down to 2 fairly crappy cities and then accepted peace deal that took all his cash. In predictable fashion 2 other civs then DOW'd him.
Rome then proceeds to win CS allies at a rate of knots (well I think he managed 4). How?
1. I checked his cash situation - deplorable, 0 savings (obviously) and fairly negative.
2. No patronage SP
3. No units left to kill barbs with or whatever other CS quests.
His influence with his new buddies was never 'just there' - always 90+ min. There were no notifications about him having the most faith/culture/tech over the last 90 turns or whatever, and he certainly hadn't built any wonders in his remaining cities.
Only thing I could think was that as an AI civ he was being allowed to bribe them on credit? But if that were so he wasn't 1000's gp negative, about -40ish. I don't remember but I don't think he had any income.
It made no difference to my position in the game, and the thread isn't a complaint of any kind; but I was left scratching my head and wondering how he did it - any thoughts?
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