Diplomat and Agent bizarre behaviour!

[Auxilia]

Hi all

In my Qarthadastim game I'm running, strange things are afoot!

First: Foreign diplomats keep appearing at various cities, waving their arms about a bit during that faction's turn but then nothing happens. Is this what I think it is, ie unsuccessful bribery attempts??

Second: shoved an agent in to Avernii controlled Massalia. During the AI turn, the little fella decides to sprint the entirety of Avernian territory, providing me with a very helpful map!

[Basileus Seleukeia]

Considering you first question: These diplomats are trying to bribe your citys.
The second one has never occured to me

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Yeah, that happens in RTW and M2TW both. The diplomats chatting with your cities and such.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

I've seen that diplomat thing all the time, even in vanilla. I usually get tired of them wasting 5 seconds of my time and assassinate them.

The spy thing is probably something like he tried to leave the city and move to a certain tile, but it was on the other side of a river or something, and there was an army on the bridge. So to get to that tile, he had to backup the long route to a different river crossing. But since as the bird flies it is only two tiles away the game seem ok with moving a long distance. They will do that sometimes. Don't know if this is your case.

[Auxilia]

Thanks all.

And yes, Marcus, assassination does seem a healthy option!