Quote Originally Posted by ReluctantSamurai View Post
Never Even diplomat's belonging to an ally are fair game, unless they take care of their business and move along. I simply detest diplomat confab's next to my cities...

When a city reaches ZPG, it doesn't need a governor of any kind...

I believe a +1 is 10%
Diplomats are annoying, but rarely are they a problem. The most problem I have had with bribes is with Briton diplomats, of all things. Now, it is not uncommon for an enemy diplomat to bribe one of my diplomats, and then I try to assassinate both. I also will bribe enemy diplomats myself (though I don't know why, I don't use them that often other than to seek trade rights and map info, and that is mainly early in the campaign). I like to make contact with every faction before they are wiped out, though sometimes Seleucia gets wiped out before I get there.

Something I am doing more of, in a town that is happy, I turn taxes up. I never used to pay attention to that unless they were unhappy. This has the added benefit of slowing population growth down, as well as bringing in more money. Now, if I need that town to grow, I keep taxes at low or normal levels. In some of the Greek towns, especially if playing as a Greek or Roman faction, your happiness will many times be above 140%, so it is perfectly fine to turn the taxes up. I like to put my capital in Greece (unless playing as Rome), so that there is a fairly even distance to capital all the way around. The problem is, Roman towns especially grow quickly. Patavium is especially bad, and even worse is it seems to have a built-in public order problem (correct me if I am wrong, I think it has an automatic 15% unrest factor).