AI with a sense of humour

[Abaxial]

This happened to me last night - I needed to wage war on America, and I thought, well, maybe the Cree would like to help. So I called up Poundmaker, and the dialogue went something like this:

Me: Would you like to declare joint war with me on Teddy Roosevelt?
Poundmaker: No, this is not to my advantage.
Me: What would it take for you to change your mind?
Poundmaker: 1 gold.

 

[Red_warning]

The AI seems to be asking for 1 gold in return a variety of things, it's a regular occurrence in my games.

 

[Infixo]

There is clearly a bug with some initial valuation. If you don't want to explot it, just remove 1 gold from the deal and ask "what would it take" or whatever the button says. Then AI gives a normal sane proposition.

 

[Abaxial]

Awww ... I was reading it that he didn't need much persuading!

 

[Aristos]

There is clearly a bug with some initial valuation. If you don't want to explot it, just remove 1 gold from the deal and ask "what would it take" or whatever the button says. Then AI gives a normal sane proposition.

Exactly. Don't use the exploit (or any of the multitude) if you want a more challenging (rewarding) experience. Not ideal, but it's what we got from FXS (as usual).

 

[MaryKB]

Oh dear, I never realized that's a glitch, I just thought they're being silly. But my requests are more benign, like asking to share Open Borders, so them wanting me to add 1 gold didn't seem too incredibly crazy. But now I feel awful because I'm sure I've seen this many times.

 

[GoodSarmatian]

I've only seen this in some alliance proposals.
AI proposes a military alliance. I reject and propose a religious/cultural/whatever alliance and they initially reject but accept if I add 1 gold.
I thought it's just a formality "for flavor", but now it looks like an exploit.

 

[Stilgar08]

Happens in every deal. I thought you have to put in something ridiculous like 2000gold and then ask what it would take.
Are you sure it's enough just to remove the 1g?

 

[King William I]

Never knew that was a bug.

The last time I tried it, I wanted to bribe Gilgabro into attacking the Inca. They hated each other, so I thought it was just a formality

 

[Breadsmith]

Poundmaker just wanted the gold. He loves trying to rope me into joint wars. I've never seen him be a solo warmonger, but he loves those joint wars.