I demand tribute for my patience!

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How often do you ask for tribute and actually get anything worth having?

I very rarely bother as it often results in a Civ's opinion of my slipping or at the worst they can't suffer me anymore and declare war. D'oh!

What's the best thing you've ever got as tribute?
 
The best thing I've ever got from demanding tribute is WAR! Frequently. That's because I rarely need the gold and I simply demand tribute as an act of provocation. If the Civ is at Peace but Hostile then they'll almost certainly go to war and your reputation doesn't suffer a bit. If they're Icy they should go to Hostile and you've got them next turn.

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Agreed stormerne!

although I find reputation doesn't really matter much once you are clearly on top. I mean they have already all allied against you - what have you got to lose then? At that point my only true interference is my lovely AI run senate...
 
Yea, AI run senate - who else give a civ that backstabbed me a chance to make peace when I am about to end their unworthy existence?
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Damn right boyo.
The AI Senate is a right pain in the phalanx, and I've come to regard them as just another enemy that you have to learn how to control and beat where necessary. It is obviously possible to just change government type whenever you feel that trouble is brewing but with careful management and the right kind of non-violent provocation you can both wage war on other civs and keep the lovely bonuses that democracy offers.

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in vino veritas
 
I just recently got civ 2 for my PC. Before that I only played on PSX. On levels prince & below, it's fairly common to demand & receive tribute, in the early stages of the game. Later on all I ever seem to get for my efforts is a war. On king & above, it almost never happens at any point of the game.

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Thou who goes to bed with an itchy butt wakes up with a smelly finger.

[This message has been edited by gjts00 (edited April 25, 2001).]
 
Its because you are too good, gjts00.

I find tribute only works for me when I am still in the mix on the powergraph - once I dominate it, then they all start giving me hell - which is ironic, because THAT would be the point in the game, were I in the AI's position, where I would open my coffers to the international giant, knowing my time as an independent civ, could be terminated at any time.
 
I've won many a game in multi from getting tribute from the AI during the early parts of the game while playing on deity.
The AI has and will always be incompetent.


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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
 
On occasion demaning Tribute might give you something, but only when you are rather much more powerful than the other Civ, and by then you can generally thwap them without them giving you money... Still, I like having them grovel beneath me and ask for mercy...
 
Sometimes when you're ont o tech conquest you can give a civ some adsvance for free and then demand tribute, and they'll pay. Other times they just pay. and yeah, if you wanna pick a fight, demand tribute or demand them to withdraw their troops.

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"The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."

- Georges Bidault
 
I was recently playing a costumized map in an attempt to get the new custom highscore, and I discovered something funny about asking tribute. Here's what happened:
I frequently switched from democracy to fundamentalism, to make some money which I could later, when democratic again, use to keep the tax rate down. (my cities weren't bigger than 12 at the time, so I could use the "tithes").
The only problem was however, that you can't have more than $30.000 (well you can but you will experience some problems when rush-buying things when you do).
So what was I to do?

Thank God the Americans & Russians (my pet-civs) offered me some financial services!
I gave 'm $30.000 each during fundamentalism, and during democracy (running budget deficits in the name of science) I could simply retrieve this money by threatening them, allowing me to effectively "store" $90.000...
Not bad, is it?
 
the best tribute that i got?? hmmmmmm, it would have to be the time that i got 650 gold from the egyptians.
 
When and when not the demand tribute option appears as a diplomacy option is a mystery to me. During the last game that I played it appeared early in the game. In the end game it never appeared as an option even when I was at peace.
Under what conditions does the demand tribute option appear?
I guess one condition is that you can't be at war, but what are the others?

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