Selling Maps/Bribing Enemies

[IceWolf]

Mitilyoats, , what I've been doing when I estaablish diplomatic contact is this. First I propose trade rights, or if they came to me I accept that. Then I start a new negotiation where I demand map info and offer it, but I also demand regular tribute.
I'm about 20 years into a Scythian campaign (these guys are fun, like Parthia with a little better infantry), and basically I've been able to sell maps to my immediate neighbors(Dacia, Thrace, Parthia(Twice), Pontus, Germany, Selucid, Carthage, for 600 dn for 4 turns, one of them, I forget which one, declined 600 dn for 4 turns but offered a one time payment of 6850 instead but if I go further west, they ain't buying. Romans. Gauls, Brits, Egyptians, they tell me to go whiz up a rope or ask me to give them $ for their maps. I still haven't had the $ to attempt to bribe an enemy army with the tight Scythian economy.

IceWolf