So, I just wrapped up an Emperor game after a fierce struggle keeping a gunboat diplomacy Greece from winnning the World Leader vote for two rounds as a Freedom Korea. I was playing on a standard sized tiny islands map, so my science wound up being a bit nerfed because I was only able to get my capital to be a respectable size (36 pop at the end of the game), while my other cities were struggling for food/hammers. I did, however, get crazy gpt by the end, over 620 gpt with a golden age, which on epic with the policy in commerce that discounts buying things by 25% let me buy a spaceship part every five turns. However, I noticed that Venice was sitting on a war chest of 30k gold, so I made a declaration of friendship with him (luckily he went freedom too and we had a solid relationship all game long, aside from him backstabbing a lot of people... diplomacy is complicated when there are 22 AIs involved), and traded all his gold for all my gpt. I then bought the last 4 parts I needed simultaneously, airlifted them to my capital, and then won the game a couple turns after the trade was made.
IMO, this is a huge abuse of the AI. From the perspective of the AI, of course I made an offer that was seemingly insane to refuse, since he would technically get a little more out of it, and for whatever reason they prefer gpt to having the gold... I wish he had been using that gold to snatch city states from Greece (even if it would cost like 5-6k per city state that he would steal) than just sit on it. How hard would it be to implement a check during trad negotiations to refuse absurd amounts of gold if the one geting the gold has the freedom ideology? Do you guys exploit the AI like this, or consider it cheesy?
IMO, this is a huge abuse of the AI. From the perspective of the AI, of course I made an offer that was seemingly insane to refuse, since he would technically get a little more out of it, and for whatever reason they prefer gpt to having the gold... I wish he had been using that gold to snatch city states from Greece (even if it would cost like 5-6k per city state that he would steal) than just sit on it. How hard would it be to implement a check during trad negotiations to refuse absurd amounts of gold if the one geting the gold has the freedom ideology? Do you guys exploit the AI like this, or consider it cheesy?