Socratatus
Emperor
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- Jul 26, 2007
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In my long protracted game, I made friends with several City states to the point that one of them started giving me Great people, etc as gifts.
Well, I got a Merchant of Venice. The instructions said I can `puppet` a CS with him. I thought this was pretty interesting. So I sent him over to a CS over which I`d been fueding with the Zulus for (it was actually under attack at the time with several burning, pillaged areas) and set the Venice Merchant to buy it.
This worked well, but I also noticed that the CS wasn`t just puppeted, I could ANNEX it too. The CS had built up quite nicely on checking and was in a good position. I had plenty of happiness, so I did take it- BANG! One extra useful city gained by me without pulling a sweat.
Isn`t this Agent just a tad too powerful as a City state gift? Seems so to me.
Also, when negotiating with me, Siam was unhappy because I had destroyed a City state it was protecting, so I got a negative modifier. That`s wrong, I simply paid it to join my Nation, it`s not destroyed. Perhaps the negative modifier should be less and instead replaced with `Siam is not happy because you BRIBED a City state away which it was protecting`?
Well, I got a Merchant of Venice. The instructions said I can `puppet` a CS with him. I thought this was pretty interesting. So I sent him over to a CS over which I`d been fueding with the Zulus for (it was actually under attack at the time with several burning, pillaged areas) and set the Venice Merchant to buy it.
This worked well, but I also noticed that the CS wasn`t just puppeted, I could ANNEX it too. The CS had built up quite nicely on checking and was in a good position. I had plenty of happiness, so I did take it- BANG! One extra useful city gained by me without pulling a sweat.
Isn`t this Agent just a tad too powerful as a City state gift? Seems so to me.
Also, when negotiating with me, Siam was unhappy because I had destroyed a City state it was protecting, so I got a negative modifier. That`s wrong, I simply paid it to join my Nation, it`s not destroyed. Perhaps the negative modifier should be less and instead replaced with `Siam is not happy because you BRIBED a City state away which it was protecting`?