A gift from the Greeks

[Disciple of Tacitus]

Usually I trade map info and trade rights in a diplomatic blitzkrieg map-wide in beginning game. After that, exchanging map info is always difficult. I try for the straight map for map exchange, but it rarely works. Occasionally (insert faction's name here)'s diplomat will offer me 500 or so mnai in exchange for my map information and that is as far as it goes. Mid game on the AI never seems to want to exchange map info.

As for massive amounts of mnai offered by the AI, I have NOT had that happen.
hmmm . . .

[Ibrahim]

I was offered a province-worth of money for an alliance (10-12000 mnai)

[Korlon]

Never has this happened to me. I've never seen any faction try to gift me money except in Medieval II: Total War, and that was when my relations with the other nation was as almost as perfect as it gets.

As somebody said above me, I like to do the mapwide trade rights and map trading blitzkrieg right away. It's much easier to get alliances, map info, and trade rights when it's on medium campaign difficulty. Basically everybody agrees unless you have an alliance with one of their enemies already. But even then, it's easy to swap map info and trade rights. On the other hand, on very hard campaign difficulty. It's easy for smaller factions to swap map info, but it just about never happens for cheap when doing it to big factions like the Seleukids. And alliances are scarce indeed.

[Reno Melitensis]

It happens because the AI wants to expand by attacking other factions, but as he fears the human player may attack, he offers gifts. As the Romani, I decided to aid the Arverni, which where and still are my allies. I needed to secure my borders, so I marched in Gaul. Capturing Gergovia and Tolosa, I give them to my allies, but the Aedui captured them again with Venettia, leaving the Arverni with only Tolosa. The Arverni then became a client kingdom of the Aedui, and as I feared an invasion I moved a legion to Massilia. It was here that a diplomat offered me money saying " enough with the bloodshed among our people" or something like that. For over 17 years now we have been at peace, but the hated Aedui attacked my other ally, the Lusotanni.

Cheers.