I have posted this twice (once in another thread), so apologies to those poor sods having to read it twice.

Am playing as England and have conquered all of France, some HRE and parts of Denmark.

I am at war with Milan and Spain. I have one diplomat each at the northern Spanish provinces trying to convince them that peace is the way to go. They are not interested (even if I offer them large sums of money - just for fun).

However, one thing did strike me as weird. They are currently on my land with two huge stacks of armies, yet, when I ask them for money (100 florins) they offer me 2000 instead - at times without even asking for anything. At other times they ask me not to attack. As I am not suicidal, I won't and let them pay me every turn (conceeded, they do tend to pay me less and less everytime).

All this gives me a total of well over 3000 florins every turn as I have now decided to play the same game with Denmark.

Peace (neutral stance) will not let you allow to use your diplomats to any further effect apart from using them to give presents.

I wonder if anyone else has tried this...if not, have a go and let me know...

Quid