The AI bribed my capitol city!?

[geofelt]

I was on the way to a spaceship landing when the AI sent a spy and made my capitol city revolt! I was in fundamentalism on 2.42. I thought this could not happen?

 

[funxus]

I've rarely experienced the AI "bribing" my cities at all, and never the capital, but since the AI at some points (e.g. after launching SS) will do anything to get rid of you and that the AI is known to cheat, I'm not surprised.

Don't we have an AI cheat thread somewhere?

 

[johnnymiller]

I'm in the middle of a ding dong battle with the Greeks at the moment. After taking over 3 of their cities I was a bit shocked to see them bribe 2 of them back next turn. I sent the Armor in and recaptured them only to have the AI bribe them both again next turn! A worrying occurence, the AI is getting smart....

 

[Ace]

That is not an uncommon occurance if your not in democracy. The AI is not totally stupid! And if it has more money than you, it will bribe. The only way to stop it is to switch to democracy, fast. (Thats just another "perk" of the democrary gov.)

 

[woke26]

can you post a save of that? i find it hard to believe that capitols can be bribed.

 

[ElephantU]

I did not think that could happen. Could the spy have taken out a critical happiness improvement, causing "disorder" but not "revolt"? In Fundy your cities are vulnerable to bribery, but I though the capital was immune in all governments.

Perhaps the spy took out the Palace?

 

[Ace]

Regardless if gov type, a civ's capitol can never be incited to revolt or bribed.

I can verify that you cannot bribe an AI capital, I have tried it many times and it never works. You must "take" a capital by military means.

Spies cannot "take out" the palace, at least, not in MPG! There is a thread about that somewhere and it looked so promising I just had to try it. Sorry, no can do. Your palace cannot be destroyed or sold. The only way to get rid of your palace is to build a new one in a different city. (Yes, I do miss the feature in civ 1 were you could sell your palace. It came in handy occasionally went you just had to have a couple of coins to save the kingdom!!)

 

[geofelt]

I think it's a bug. I guarantee you, I saw a spy land and bribe my capitol. I was invited to spend 1000 gold to move my palace, which I did. The next turn, I bribed it back(along with a zillion wonders). I was in fundamentalism at the time.

 

[Ace]

Very strange. Thats not suposed to happen. And in fundy, you cannot have a city go into disorder (unless you stage a revolution) since fundy is a fanatical-based gov. You never have to worry about the red guys.