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AI Bribing Capital Cities!!!
Everyone:
In my current game of Civ II, the Vikings are running wild across the standard large Earth map (modern age now). First they bribed Persia's capital, Persepolis, into rebellion. Now they've done the same to Thebes, Egypt's capital (which resulted in a civil war for Egypt).
I don't get it. I thought capital cities couldn't be bribed. Heck, I just cheated to see if there was a bug or something ... but, no, there isn't. My spies were not able to bribe the Vikings' capital of Trondheim, nor the capitals of what's left of Egypt or the newly-arisen India. The option simply didn't appear on my menu of choices.
The only thing I can figure is that at some point in their history, both Egypt and Persia lost their capital cities to invading armies and then retook them later. Thus they had the cities and I just automatically assumed they had always had them. (The Vikings beat me to building Marco Polo's Embassy ... so I didn't have up-to-date diplomatic information until I built the United Nations.)
I'm playing on the Emperor level and haven't seen this happen before. How I wish I had an earlier save of the game, so I could check to see if Thebes and Persepolis were, indeed, the capital cities I automatically thought they were upon building the UN.
Huh. Maybe Persia and Egypt traded sacking each other's capital cities. But if that's the case, why did Egypt split in a civil war? The AI often doesn't rebuild the palace in a former capital that's been sacked. It builds in another city.
I have added city names to the CTY.TXT file, but not for Egypt or Persia. I also changed the Greeks into the Amazons and the Zulus into the Draka, but I don't see how this should instigate the ability to bribe capitals, since I sure as heck cannot do that. I tried.
Color me confused.
Gatekeeper
In my current game of Civ II, the Vikings are running wild across the standard large Earth map (modern age now). First they bribed Persia's capital, Persepolis, into rebellion. Now they've done the same to Thebes, Egypt's capital (which resulted in a civil war for Egypt).
I don't get it. I thought capital cities couldn't be bribed. Heck, I just cheated to see if there was a bug or something ... but, no, there isn't. My spies were not able to bribe the Vikings' capital of Trondheim, nor the capitals of what's left of Egypt or the newly-arisen India. The option simply didn't appear on my menu of choices.
The only thing I can figure is that at some point in their history, both Egypt and Persia lost their capital cities to invading armies and then retook them later. Thus they had the cities and I just automatically assumed they had always had them. (The Vikings beat me to building Marco Polo's Embassy ... so I didn't have up-to-date diplomatic information until I built the United Nations.)
I'm playing on the Emperor level and haven't seen this happen before. How I wish I had an earlier save of the game, so I could check to see if Thebes and Persepolis were, indeed, the capital cities I automatically thought they were upon building the UN.
Huh. Maybe Persia and Egypt traded sacking each other's capital cities. But if that's the case, why did Egypt split in a civil war? The AI often doesn't rebuild the palace in a former capital that's been sacked. It builds in another city.
I have added city names to the CTY.TXT file, but not for Egypt or Persia. I also changed the Greeks into the Amazons and the Zulus into the Draka, but I don't see how this should instigate the ability to bribe capitals, since I sure as heck cannot do that. I tried.
Color me confused.
Gatekeeper
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