Secrets to trading with AI?

justjake73 · #1 July 27th, 2001, 01:39 AM

I once offered 5 techs I was sure the AI did not have with a combined resarch total of some seven to 800,000 points, AND I gave him 10000 min and 50000 each rad and org. I asked for only ice planet colonization.

The response was "you need to work harder in determining what we like."

I"M GIVING 5 TECHS AND 70000 RESOURCES!!!! I ONLY WANT ONE!!!!!

???????????

Phoenix-D · #2 July 27th, 2001, 01:50 AM

They're weird like that. I once offered an AI 200000 resources, no trade, a GIFT..

..and it turned me down.

Phoenix-D

justjake73 · #3 July 27th, 2001, 01:53 AM

I guess you have to be at better than "warm" relations to effect a trade....

What level were you at when they refused the gift?

Phoenix-D · #4 July 27th, 2001, 01:54 AM

Murderous

Phoenix-D

Dragonlord · #5 July 27th, 2001, 02:48 AM

Justjake,
I have done the same, usually with success, with regular AI's. I do it in the early stages when their temper is still moderate.

Puke · #6 July 27th, 2001, 07:22 AM

a friend of mine used to have alot of luck making a treaty with a race, making sure he was a bit more powerful than it, and when relations warmed up he would just 'Demand' their colony tech. usually worked, that was on 1.19 though, and I never really tried it out.

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fulgrymm · #7 July 27th, 2001, 12:13 PM

I have successfully traded colony techs (straight one-for-one) with AI's that I am at war with! In all the games I've played, the AI always seems certain to trade for colony techs it does not have. It seems to accept most trades I propose whatever its mood. I've had problems getting the AI to accept propulsion in trades, though.

Fulgrymm.