Price of Contacts with other civs

[Bamspeedy]

It might just be me, but it seems the cost of acquiring contact to other civs has gone up tremendously. First time playing Emperor, so it may be the difficulty level, but I think it has more to do with the v1.21f patch.

Example: Tried to purchase contact with 4 civs. 30 gold per turn, plus 123 gold was not enough. I used to get contact for less than 100 gold for each civ.

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads/contact.zip

 

[wohmongarinf00l]

i think this patch has substantially changed strategies.
tech brokering is almost impossible...i played an emperor
game till industrial times and it was impossible because they
are not offering gold per turn. they of course want gold per turn but they won't offer it.

it used to be possible to set science to zero and buy techs
and sell them to the masses. this can't be done because
u can't get back what u pay. on the other hand, they are
willing to exchange techs for techs.

the one emperor game i am doing ok, i refused to pay any
per turn gold for anything.

 

[damunzy]

wohmongarinf00l, warmongering fool

Which version were you playing before? I would 1.17 difficult to tech trade effectively. I never really had much experience with 1.16 so it might have started there. Are you saying that 1.21 is worse than 1.17? I hope not because there will be some whinning then! Well, at least they made the corruption effects alterable...or at least it looks that way. I have not be able to play yet.