Trading cities

[TheDarkside]

What's the deal with trading cities now?

I am in a war with Egypt and I conquered two of the cities but I didn't think I can pay the maintenance for any more cities but I thought I might conquer more and then just give the cities to one of my allies... when I contact my allies though NO ONE would even consider accepting any one of my cities at all! They are all listed in red and when I mouse over it just says "sorry I'm not willing to trade this". What gives? AI doesn't like to have cities?

[Blake]

So you want to give away the cities beacuse they're killing your finances... and what do you think they'll do to your "allies" finances?

AI's are now smart enough to basically only accept cities that will become part of their borders.

[TheDarkside]

I wouldn't call it smart... there seems to be no real decision making on the AI part except something maybe like what you touched on- that the city would have to be bordering them so it becomes part of their borders?

That won't work in my game as it's all islands ...

[Silver14]

Give them back to the Egyptians...then raze them the next time around.

[johnmcd]

The AI will accept cities that are not contiguous with its borders in some situations, either the city is superb or it's gone some ace resource or something like that in that.