Teodosio
Warlord
- Joined
- Mar 3, 2002
- Messages
- 292
I know there's an occasional quest for it, but right now trading with city-states seems like a last resort and less of a choice. If trading with city-states gave +2 or 3 influence a turn I'd find a lot harder to choose between that and the superior gold and science of trading with a civ'.
Trading with city states already offers a substantial, if hidden, benefit: that you are not enriching one of your competitors. It is true that trade routes with other civs are more lucrative, but the other civs will be getting money too... that is the trade-off.