Spy tasks / city revolt - propaganda

[Raio]

Only one question.

Sometimes it could be usefull conduct a "city revolt / propaganda" in order to adquire a special city from the AI that have the luxury / resort you dont have.

In my C3C games never works, even spending several amounts of gold and trying several times.

Does someone knows why?
Does someone knows special technics do make it possible?

Thanks.

 

[skunk]

Are they in democracy? Then they are immune to propaganda.

 

[Raio]

Soory, I forgot, I know that in demo the propaganda will not work. Thats not the case.

I was asking if anyone had already success in this task and which is the probability of success.

 

[dmanakho]

I had a success with propaganda but only when played on chieftain/warlord level games.
You have to have thousands of gold. They way i achieved result i tried to implement propaganda option many times in a row during the single turn until i am succesfull or until I run out of my gold.
It is very not efficient way to deal with AI. I only tried it just out of curiosity.
And i had success only with small cities or cities that were recently captured by AI from another AI.

IMHO, Propaganda is one of the least useful options in Civ3. :shakehead

 

[Halcyon]

Unless you have a lot more culture than them, and the target city is relatively undeveloped, then the chances are rather low. It also helps if you're in a 'better' government than the target, and if the target city is in disorder.

There's always a chance, but it's not too high if the target city's in WLTK, is in Republic or Communism, is about size ten and has plenty of culture. It might happen if you're persistent and keep trying, but it's probably a better use of funds to rush-build some tanks.

 

[sabo]

If you have more culture than they do and the target city is in revolt the chances are pretty good.