Help - How To Buy Contacts

[cristano1]

my galley meets another nation... at this point, 2 questions:
1. how do i see what other nations he has contact with
2. how do i buy contacts with these other nations

much thanks!

 

[RFHolloway]

Welcome to the Forums!

Just open a trade window with them - it will be one of the things that you can by or sell - just make a deal. They will have a different item for each person they know that you don't and you will have a different one for each person you know but they don't.

Of course if you are playing c3c then you won't be able to trade contacts till some absurdly late tech (printing press I think) and I don't know of a way of knowing who they know.

 

[Jazzmail]

and in vanilla, all you need to research is writing.

 

[Zibong]

and in vanilla, all you need to research is writing.

I swear, Communications moved to Printing Press from Writing, World & Territory maps moved to Navigation from Map Making. I guess we're expected to just bash each other's heads in all the way up to the late Medeival.

Diplomacy? I gots your diplomacy right 'ere! *stab*

 

[Jazzmail]

doesn't make any sense to me either. It's better the way it works in vanilla.

 

[TheOverseer714]

One of the few things where vanilla is clearly better. The others are the higher value of the FP and MGL'S able to rush wonders. Otherwise, C3C is much better on most stuff.

 

[bob rulz]

I almost prefer map trading where it is (although maybe it should be somewhere in the middle). Makes it so you don't know the whole world by the late Ancient Age.

I mean, think about it.

"Alexander the Great, meet the Olmecs." Or something like that.

 

[Aigburth]

Its the fact they require optional techs in C3C I don't like, there have been a few times I have been in the modern age and still not able to trade contacts or maps, thats a bit silly.

 

[bob rulz]

Its the fact they require optional techs in C3C I don't like, there have been a few times I have been in the modern age and still not able to trade contacts or maps, thats a bit silly.

Certainly you should be able to trade for these techs by this time?

 

[Jazzmail]

"Alexander the Great, meet the Olmecs." Or something like that.

Then again, Alexander did meet the Indians (india that is; not america ofcourse).

In my games civs on different continent do usually stay isolated from the rest until the late period in the middle ages, because sea and ocean squares limit galleys.
For the rest I don't see why civs should remain ignorant about their own continent longer.

 

[bob rulz]

Then again, Alexander did meet the Indians (india that is; not america ofcourse).

In my games civs on different continent do usually stay isolated from the rest until the late period in the middle ages, because sea and ocean squares limit galleys.
For the rest I don't see why civs should remain ignorant about their own continent longer.

True. But he didn't know about China. It just seems to me that knowing the whole world by the late Ancient Ages is ridiculous. But I still do think it comes too late. They could probably find some tech in the middle that could be used.

 

[Jazzmail]

True. But he didn't know about China. It just seems to me that knowing the whole world by the late Ancient Ages is ridiculous. But I still do think it comes too late. They could probably find some tech in the middle that could be used.

Yeah, but that cannot be helped. Even if I cannot trade contacts with other civs for some reason, I will know every civ on my continent, because even at one square movement per turn, a few warriors can reach the edges of the continent before 2000 BC.

And just as it so happens, exploration with warriors is 90% of what I'm doing in those early times. My alexander would meet mao anyway, because that's how the game works.

 

[bob rulz]

Yeah, but that cannot be helped. Even if I cannot trade contacts with other civs for some reason, I will know every civ on my continent, because even at one square movement per turn, a few warriors can reach the edges of the continent before 2000 BC.

And just as it so happens, exploration with warriors is 90% of what I'm doing in those early times. My alexander would meet mao anyway, because that's how the game works.

Since I usually play Pangea, oftentimes large maps with all 12 civs, I usually don't meet everyone early on.