Giving Cash to AI

Hi there

Someone posted something in another thread about giving extra cash to yourself so you could then give 250K through diplomats to all the other AI factions so they might actually produce some decent armies to challenge you.

I tried reeeeaaaallly hard to play slow. Be good, not blitz. But I'm at turn 122 and have just made the mongols my vassals and am sitting on 41 cities. I want to see Timurids and New World but will have to wait soooo loooong that I'm trying to think how to keep up my interest.

I'm thinking of Going for ruling by vassalage as it surpised me by working on Mongols (i'm only 1.1 on H so diplomacy has some chance of working). Smashing anyone who attacks me then giving them their cities back as vassal.

But even so the enemy armies are tooo easy. How do I get extra cash (to then give to the Milanese, Danes and Scots say)?

(I'm not a modder so something you can do with ' key like toggle_fow would be good - not modifying the unpacked files.)

Cheers in advance

Editing the kings purse in the descr_strat file does wonders. Double the value, and the AI will start fielding very good armies. The descr_strat file is located in data/world/maps/campaign/imperial campaign. There's no need for the unpacker, and you don't need to use the file_first extension or anything.

Actually, I'm playing a campaign with the King's Purse value for every other faction (I'm Sicily) increased to 25k.

Yes, 25000.

Should be interesting to see if I actually have to fight for my life :grin2:

Does that work halfway through a game?

I don't believe so.

iirc descr_strat is only read once, at the beginning of a campaign.

So is there another way using the ' button where I can give myself cash, but then use diplomats to give it to them?

I'm sure that's what I saw posted before...

I can't start again. I'll never ever see teh Timurids, let alone the aztecs. Even with AI taxes and conxtruction it takes too long (partly because I can't trust AI and keep interfering).

There is a cheat, but I forget it :embarassed:

add_money france, 10000

Is the cheat for example.

The internal names for all factions are: england, france, spain, hre, venice, sicily, milan, portugal, scotland, denmark, papal_states, hungary, poland, russia, byzantium, mongols, timurids, aztecs, slave, turks, moors, egypt.

Thanks!

So I can give the money directly to them - means I don't have to wory about fussy AI refusing my gifts/rep going up unfairly.

I'm only cheating for the AI honest!

I've got two Vassals, 41 cities, half a mill in the bank and Janissary Musketeers. I don't need any help!

But this means the game may hold my interest until the New World.

That's me who was doing this. What I did is I gave 1 million total to every faction. I did this the 'hard' way as I did'nt know the other way.

1. Open console
2. add_money 40000
3. up arrow key-> enter till you hit a million.
4. I had diplmats at every factions city, then open negotiation.
5. Give money 250000. Repeat every few turns.

The other way which I actually think works is when I tried Lusted's mod. Great mod Lusted ! I think you can also type this in console "add_money 40000, england". You just repeat this command and it should give money directly to the AI England, for example.

I have'nt tried this but I think it works. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.

This way it's quicker.