Protectorate? .. best protect your wallet.

**Bob the Insane** · 10-10-2004, 13:04

Can't believe we still don't really know what that Protectorate thing means in game....

**Lemur** · 10-10-2004, 14:09

I've asked about this before, and gotten no real answers. Even Tamur's most excellent Diplomacy Guide only states that "There is not enough player experience with this option to know much more." But it's clear that you make no money from creating a protectorate, and that becoming a protectorate is great fun.

We'll just have to keep playing and trying things.

**Oaty** · 10-11-2004, 02:13

Never went after a protectorate since I did'nt want to get robbed but does it allow you shared vision with your protectorate? I'm guessing a protectorate gives you automatic military access rights also.

**Orvis Tertia** · 10-11-2004, 05:14

As Julii, I got the Dacians to be my protectorate, and then in the next turn the Brutii attacked them, which caused the Dacians to cancel their alliance and military access with me. So now I have no idea what exactly the relationship is between my faction and Dacia. Only three turns have elapsed since then. I'll report if anything interesting happens.

**metatron** · 10-11-2004, 05:16

Fighting with the Egyptians fields little results, my faction leader barely escaping with his life, I have the Pharaoh sandwiched between my armies.

So I crush him, he grudgingly accepts protectorate. What does this entail? I don't plan on staying his friend, just until my Iberian conquerors reach the Libyan shore.

**Colovion** · 10-11-2004, 05:51

Yeah, there's somethign deffinately wrong here

Click that ^ it's a picture of my financial rankings next to my Protectorate - Thrace. Now you can see a notable - VERY notable - increase after I become their Protectorate. Perhaps they are reaping all of my benefits of my trade as well as the trade from everyone who they have asked for trade rights. I'm at war with half of the map it seems (unprovoked besides Rome). I'm still confused.

**metatron** · 10-11-2004, 06:47

I think it is trade, protectorate is essentially all possible treaties rolled into one.

**Colovion** · 10-11-2004, 10:17

Originally Posted by metatron

I think it is trade, protectorate is essentially all possible treaties rolled into one.

Dont' you see a problem there? It's rising by the same ratio every turn!!! It's skyrocketting off the map! Have you EVER seen anyone with that much money at this stage in teh game? I have one of the best economies and I"m so much lower - plus if it was trade wouldn't it level off after a few turns and not continue like that?

I think this is a huge bug...