Scaling of Trade values needed

[guenzak]

One thing they really need to address is scaling the amout of gold the AI will give you in trade for certain things. Unless i have a specific need for open borders from another civ i prefer to sell my open borders, usually for 50g, sometime 43g if theyre being difficult. Problem is that later on in the game, modern or future era even, the most you will get for open boarders is 50g. I'm sorry but later on in the game when there is more gold to be had and more gold able to be generated 50g just doesn;t cut it. Not only that but the necessity of the open borders is crucial as well and should be considerd in the gold offered. If civ A needs to or wants to attack Civ B but needs to pass through your territory to do so the value of the open borders to them is a lot higher than if they were just exploring. So the amount of gold they are willing to pay for open borders should go up as well.To me this has been a glaring oversite. Has this bothered anyone else.

 

[Furycrab]

Personally I don't really mind unless they actually designed the AI to not trade gold for open borders when they have absolutely no need. It's ridiculous that if you explore fairly proactively and find a friendly civ on the other end of the world that has no clue where you are... will pay you 50g for open borders which he will never cross.

 

[dexters]

Dont sell your Open Borders unless you are sure they won't attack/can't attack you.

AI does not have knowledge of your defenses until you give them open borders for their scouts to explore.

Once they know which cities have walls, which are poorly defended and where your army is, they are liable to attack, or rather, those planning to surprise attack you will ask for open borders first quite often.

As for sclaring trades, there's not much to scale.

One lux is always going to add +4 happiness.

Fixed pricing helps police pseudo exploits of breaking deals intentionally after getting lump sum gold. Something I'm not against as a strategy, but part of the reason i'm not against it is because there's only so much lump sum gold, you can get due to relatively fixed/stable pricing.