Selling Military access and gaining much money

[mcpa]

During the first turn (playing as Sweden) I could sell Military Acesss to my lands
for 20 rounds for about 1900 florins to basically every state in Europe! Even to the knights of St.John (or what they are called)! Had around 50-60k after dealing with all the major/minor states in Europe.
The first turn.

It reminds a little bit about the "selling MAP information" in MTW2.

It is not realistic for small states to buy Military Access to Swedens land plus if they are soo far away on the campaing map that they cannot make there in, well, 20 turns!

[Dayve]

So let me get this right... You're exploiting the games diplomacy mechanism, and then complaining that it worked in your favour?

You know Stan from South Park, when somebody says something stupid and he puts his head down and pinches the bridge of his nose?

Yeah, i did that when i read that post.

[antisocialmunky]

Yes, Mr. Troll because exploits can be easily found by siting around and not playing the game rather than stumbling into it and then playing with it.

But yeah, there's alot of crap about minor factions like them sitting around with more military power than most of Europe etc etc etc...

[lugh]

Dayve: I'd imagine that the point would be that this exploit, just like the massively major bugs, CTD issues, and AI problems shouldn't really be shipping with a "finished" product. Even a small amount of playtesting would have revealed a lot of the glaring issues that have emerged.

[Ardri]

Well, lucky for us ETW is a PC game that can be easily patched via Steam. While it is not the best game (some would even argue it is not a good game), there is at least hope it will be.

[lugh]

Well, lucky for us ETW is a PC game that can be easily patched via Steam. While it is not the best game (some would even argue it is not a good game), there is at least hope it will be.

That's the problem. Without Steam they wouldn't have dared ship it in this state. It's only because it's easily patchable and that I can expect it to be eventually working smoothly that I don't mind the bugs and CTDs all that much.

[Beskar]

Did you know you can get all the one state factions to be protectorates by giving them military access to your land, even though they get that anyway if they become your protectorate?

Did you know you can buy 5turn military access then just put units at their capital and take it without much resistance?


There are glitches/face slapping manovuers you can do in the game. The real challenge is playing the game without the temptation to do these things.

Though, some of these "glitches" reminds me a lot of Oblivion:Elder Scrolls. In the game, there was a fast travel mode, so you can go to a explored area in next to no time. The downside is, you miss lots of opportunities to explore and get treasure. However, the official forums of the game had tons and tons of whine posts because of this feature. "This feature is stupid, it takes away from the game" blah blah. The irony is, no one was forcing them to use the feature, but they did so anyway and complain about it.

In short - stop whining about things that are not broken and if you don't like you can do that, just do not do it, that simple. Are you the same kind of person who complains and whines you can do the add_money console command in Rome: Total War campaign yet you keep using it regardless? It's the same thing.

[anweRU]

During the first turn (playing as Sweden) I could sell Military Acesss to my lands
for 20 rounds for about 1900 florins to basically every state in Europe!

Out of curiosity, I started a new campaign as Ottomans on Hard, and tried this trick. I was able to get a cool 5K for each military access. Got enough money to upgrade/build all buildings in every province that turn, and recruit many military units! And I didn't even sell to Russia, Austria, Poland, Georgia, Dagestan and Persia. That would have given me another $30K!

This trick seems to work only in the theater you're capital is in. None of the Indian or American (native or settler) factions bought into this scam.