Has anbody successfully bribed another faction's general yet?

[katank]

In original MTW, it was extremely easy to build giant chains of boats all the way around the world and then end up with something like a million or 2 in the treasury. 40k, 50k bribes aren't a big deal in that case. Though amounts were pretty crazy at times, it's damn useful. Earliest moves were always bribing El Cid and the longbows in Wales.

In RTW, it tended to be a tad easy. However, the reaction was drastic. Now, bribery is useless. I've only managed to bribe Wales for roughly 6k in my first campaign and haven't been able to do a successful bribe since. Might as well not have that option on a diplomat.

[todorp]

I think bribery of generals is switched off in the descr_campaign_db.xml

<bribery>
<bribe_to_family_tree bool="false"/>

I an not 100% sure because I haven't tried it.

[gingergenius]

1) Go into the data file and open up export_descr_character_traits.txt

2) At the same time, go into your descr_strat.txt file.

3) Choose the faction you want to play and go to the diplomat character.

4) To the end of the row showing his traits, add: " , NaturalDiplomatSkill 3 , SmoothTalker 3" (without quotation marks)

5) If you want to edit any of your other characters just go throught the character traits file and look what the code is, and add it to the descr_strat file. I also recommend changing your diplomat's age so he has maximum time for bribery

6) start a new campaingn and get bribing.

[PureFodder]

I gave up pretty quickly with the bribing. Only once have I seen a successful bribery when Venice bribed one of the castles I had just taken from them (no general in it).

The worst bit is the computer will still try turn after turn after turn to bribe your generals and settlements forcing you to sit there and watch it.

[Von Nanega]

The worst bit is the computer will still try turn after turn after turn to bribe your generals and settlements forcing you to sit there and watch it.

I found over time this helps with your generals loyalty though. Thats a good thing.

[Afkazar]

I gave up pretty quickly with the bribing. Only once have I seen a successful bribery when Venice bribed one of the castles I had just taken from them (no general in it).

The worst bit is the computer will still try turn after turn after turn to bribe your generals and settlements forcing you to sit there and watch it.

YOu could just break out some assassins and start murdering em.

I really have only bribed anyone once in RTW.I spent like 8000 on 2 militia hoplites.I had the money and didnt feel like supressing it.I sent those 2 militia hoplite units to a constantly siege city.They probably remade there money on dead thracians and macedonians!

Yes, well CA made bribery historically accurate and everyone screamed. Now rebellion is likely instead. Both should be something that needs watching. Be careful what you scream about. Someone may try to fix it and then look what you get.

well the thing is the game isnt meant to be historically acurrate.As in rome total war theyll go destroy some history to make the game play funner/easier
(all greek cites being merged was primarily the one)

[Snoil The Mighty]

Short answer to OP: Nope.

Longer bit: If they are so deadset on quieting the people who complained about the ease of bribing from RTW, they should have just removed bribery in it's entireity as opposed to putting something they intentionally made unusable. It's pretty obvious given the the way they went from one extreme to another in RTW regarding bribery efficacy that they wanted to quell the Rome:Total Bribery noise. However, including a 'feature' that doesn't work is far worse than just removing it until/unless they come up with a usable version that won't get their game called names. Truth be told, I don't think bribery was THAT far out of whack in RTW. I rarely used it because I liked to fight battles, personally. But it was fun on a lark occaisionally. And as far asamassing crazy amounts of coin and bribing your way to power, hey the late game army sizes I am amassing are fairly ahistoric also! So in a nutshell, I think they are silly for making it an essentially unusable feature. Hopefully it will get addressed in future, more comprehensive patches.

[Oshidashi]

1) Go into the data file and open up export_descr_character_traits.txt

2) At the same time, go into your descr_strat.txt file.

3) Choose the faction you want to play and go to the diplomat character.

4) To the end of the row showing his traits, add: " , NaturalDiplomatSkill 3 , SmoothTalker 3" (without quotation marks)

5) If you want to edit any of your other characters just go throught the character traits file and look what the code is, and add it to the descr_strat file. I also recommend changing your diplomat's age so he has maximum time for bribery

6) start a new campaingn and get bribing.

So are you saying that, when having a great diplomat, bribing can be done without emptying your whole treasury? And can these diplomats also bribe generals?

In the old MTW it was possible to give your generals certain titles. With these titles came certain traits. I enjoyed that and miss this aspect in MTW2. Concerning bribing, wouldn't it be realistic if you could bribe a general by giving him a certain amount of money and in addittion offer him a title? The importancy of the title and the amount of money needed for the bribe then ofcourse should correspond with the loyalty and traits/retinues of that general.