How do i...

[KingBruiser]

Make a Diplomatic meeting with another civilization...

like the Computer does and id like too sometimes... but how ?

 

[Duke of Marlbrough]

If you've found the other civ, you can go to your foreign advisor (F3) and choose them from the list to meet with them.

 

[Alice]

...And if you haven't found them, build Marco Polo's Embassy (or United Nations) and do the same thing (press F3 and choose them from the list)

 

[Ace]

You can send a diplomate or a spy to establish an embassy with the other civ.

 

[Strikefang]

Who'd wanna talk to the AI... they're mean they threaten me and then beat me if I refuse to give them my best technology... meanies

 

[ElephantU]

You talk to trade techs, demand tribute, ask for gifts, and sometimes to exchange maps. They are like North Korea - demanding, bullying, insulting, but little creativity and easy to beat.

 

[Dark Ascendant]

Why aren you asking this here when the answer is clearly in the manual that comes along with the CD?

 

[Chieftess]

Back when I used to play Civ2 (of course, then it was always on chieftain. I played warlord, but stopped because war elephants kept stealing my units! ) I was always in the tech lead, or at tech parity. Although, I was mainly a builder (with antiquity wars), and if my reputation were bad, I'd just wait X number of turns.)

 

[ben_weller1991]

Originally posted by- Strikefang
Who'd wanna talk to the AI... they're mean they threaten me and then beat me if I refuse to give them my best technology... meanies

i agree. when you demand tribute they bore me with some speech about being insulted for the last time. then they declare war on me.

 

[mardukes]

Originally posted by ben_weller1991
Originally posted by- Strikefang
... when you demand tribute they bore me with some speech about being insulted for the last time. then they declare war on me.

when you play having democracy as your form of gov you will come to appreciate the value of that little transaction.

 

[ben_weller1991]

when you play having democracy as your form of gov you will come to appreciate the value of that little transaction.


oh yeah i forgot. however, as you may recall from my thread- whats the big deal with rep. , i dont do governments where i am not in complete control

 

[ElephantU]

The "governments where you are not in complete control", ie. "representative" governments, give you an extra Trade arrow for every worked tile with at least one trade already. They also allow you to use WeLoveThe(Consul/President)Day to rapidly increase the size of your cities, assuming you have enough food and Luxuries. These extras mean vastly more citizens, production, gold, and trade bonuses. They demand vigilance on citizen unhappiness and special tricks when you want to go to war, if you do not want to change governments. But a Power Democracy will blow away (or bribe away) all other governments. And it cannot be bribed...

 

[Pdifolco]

Originally posted by ElephantU
You talk to trade techs, demand tribute, ask for gifts, and sometimes to exchange maps. They are like North Korea - demanding, bullying, insulting, but little creativity and easy to beat.

That's not rather like US ?

 

[.:KNAS:.]

Actually i'd say that the AI is a lot like real world France, all you have to do is to take a city or two and theyll come running to the negotiations table...

 

[ElephantU]

I assume you are referring to WW2- the Germans never actually "took" Paris...

When I started with Civ I felt the Diplomacy part of the game was overly insulting, but as I read the recent declarations of North Korea (and China during the P-3 shootdown) I think I know who Sid patterned the AI negotiations code after. Remember Nikita pounding his shoe on the lecturn at the UN and shouting "We will bury you!"?