Buying a prvince

[King Maker]

I am currently playing a Byzantine campaign (very hard, hard, retrofit), but I find it hard to buy provinces from other factions. Before the 1.5 patch, it was easy enoth to buy a province from the Hungarians, but now they get angry (even thogh they are my allie). I have tryed offering other bigger citys, castles and lots of cash, but they will not sell it. Is it becouse its a catholic province and Im othedox or is there another reason? :juggle2:

[Zaleukos]

Price seems to be affected by your reputation and your relations with the country in question. If you have a lot of money it might be a good idea to give 100 or 1000 florins as a gift a few times to raise the relationship, it might change the price significantly and offset the cost. Not sharing a border is also (as always) a plus when doing business with the AI). If you have Ragusa you can be sure that the Sicilians will come along and siege you, and you can easily get Tunis+Tripoli for peace:p

From what I can tell the AI is reluctant to sell provinces if he has very few (around 3-4) settlements left as well. So it is very hard to buy Ajaccio from Milan (few provinces) and fairly easy to buy Marseilles from the French or Bologna from HRE. The AI doesnt value all settlements equally either, but I havent figured out the formula for it (why is the AI Sicily more ready to part with Naples or Tunis than with Cagliari???).

If you are prepared to take a global reputation hit you can offer your entire treasury for ten turns and then cancel that deal immediately, but that is usally not worth it.

The evaluation of tribute for x turns is also a bit funky, sometimes the AI values X for 10 turns higher than X for 20 turns, sometimes the other way around (more than 20 turns seem to be worth less).

Religion doesnt seem to matter all that much.

Caveat: All this is at medium campaign difficulty.

[Ramses II CP]

If they have 3 or fewer they won't sell you anything. I've noticed if my global reputation is bad then offering to buy settlements generally fails even if you dramatically over value the place.

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