Protectorates? No problem!

[Jaywalker-Jack]

A handy trick I learned - if youve gotten very rich, offer whatever enemy is tormenting you your entire treasury in return for becoming your protectorate. If they accept (and with a big enough bribe they will),the following turn theyl give you the entire sum back as a tribute. Thats right, you loose nothing. The only problem is it will have to be quite a big bribe - hundreds of thousands - but for some factions it isnt hard to make that kind of money quickly (eg a Hellenic faction controlling all of the Aegean).

[Olaf The Great]

A handy trick I learned - if youve gotten very rich, offer whatever enemy is tormenting you your entire treasury in return for becoming your protectorate. If they accept (and with a big enough bribe they will),the following turn theyl give you the entire sum back as a tribute. Thats right, you loose nothing. The only problem is it will have to be quite a big bribe - hundreds of thousands - but for some factions it isnt hard to make that kind of money quickly (eg a Hellenic faction controlling all of the Aegean).

Forced diplomacy is superior

[sgsandor]

Sounds like it could be a cool trick

[Tellos Athenaios]

While it may come in handy, especially if you don't like forced "diplomacy" - it certainly is not cool.
1) It is too old to be cool; and it is NOT retro.
2) Those allies don't give back ALL of it. Oh, no. They keep a very substantial amount of it - and they only give it back if they are liquid enough to.

[Magister Militum Titus Pullo]

I wouldn't make it a habit. It would defeat the object of it being a command and conquer game.

[KARTLOS]

sounds nice - ive never had that kind of money though.

i have never ever ever managed to get a protectarate, even with single province states.

currently i have a massive hay empire and i find my income has stuck around 30k for years if anything with further conquests it now declines.

i am bordering the KH at the moment (having just destroyed the maks) will the greek state really give me much extra money?

[The Briton]

Wats really the point, like wat do protectorates do anyways? plus its only matter of turns b4 tehy backstab u

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

They are slightly less likely to betray you then an ally.