Removing bribing entirely.

[Khorak]

Can it be done? I'm so beyond sick and tired of it that I just want to carve it out the game like the cancerous piece of crap it is. Even with the 1.2 patch it just doesn't work because the computer is quite happy to pull vast amounts of money straight out its arsehole with which to rob any settlement with less than say.....twenty damn units in it, at any point the AI considers it appropriate.

It's like you're expected to just forget what a faction is and isn't capable of economically after we've actually played with it. It's worst with the Roman factions, who will with incomparible glee pull out of a giant bag of holding all the money required to build and maintain enormous armies whilst still having enough to build up their cities and bribe whatever the hell they want away from you, with but their crappy starting provinces plus one unless it's the Scipii.

If I can't even do this one little thing then damn it all I'm just going to go back to MTW again.

[The Stranger]

i like to see the old bribing back where you could bribe, cataphracts and other kind of units from the enemy. it was fun waiting for the golden hordes to come and then let my english diplomat bribe those barbarians and end up with 2 full stacks of mongol warriors.

[therother]

It should be possible.

Find this in the RTW/data/descr_character.txt file:

type			diplomat

actions			moving_normal, diplomacy, bribe 
wage_base		50

and remove bribe.

[Khorak]

It didn't work. The Julii decided to buy a settlement and a general with a thousand man army after but a single turn of testing.

I would have thought such changes should take immediately, but would new games have to be started for it to work?

[therother]

Never tried it, so I don't know. You'd certainly have to restart RTW.

[Old Celt]

This works for me: set campaign difficulty to medium. Not only does that solve the bribery problem, but it puts a halt to armies coming from nowhere when you know there were no resources to build them. I can understand the desire to play battles on VH, but for campaign difficulty, what's the attraction? You are just signing yourself up for abuse IMHO.