protectorates?

[Hooahguy]

ive always wanted to know this- what happens when you become a protectorate?

[Callicles]

I'm a protectorate right now. Nothing happens. The game doesn't end, if that's what you were thinking. It is merely like a "better alliance" that comes with the added humiliation of being servant to the AI. But don't think that doesn't mean your protectors won't betray you.

[Bootsiuv]

I'm fairly certain they exact a hefty tribute from you, so it does effect your economy....I've become the AS's Protectorate as Baktria....they might not betray you right away, but it really doesn't stop them from attacking.

You would think that they wouldn't want to attack a subject state which was reduced to a tributary role....but that's the delightful world of R:TW diplomacy for ya.

[bovi]

Any remaining treasury you have at the end of the turn is shipped to your master. Not a big deal. They'll declare war soon enough anyway.

[TWFanatic]

So...if I make a faction which has 50,000 mnaii in the treasury my protectorate, I would be a very rich man the next turn?

[Bootsiuv]

Yes, I do believe I remember people saying there was something wrong with the money script because after one turn they gained many 100's of thousands of mnai....turned out a protectorate of theirs was the donor IIRC.

I've never had a protectorate in EB though, and only once in vanilla...