Bribing Units is ridiculous

[The Mad Monk]

The Hunt For Red October, perhaps?

[finbar]

Justify how, Horse? You mean the logic (as per the real world)?

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[myrlyn]

ok folks lets see how much money it will take to bribe AH to stop posting these threads. I'll chip in the first one hundred dollars u.s.

and lets see how long he will stay bribed!

quote: Originally posted by finbar on 05-30-2000 02:26 AM Justify how, Horse? You mean the logic (as per the real world)?

This from the person who was the first to bribe one of my ships!

Myrilin (whatever) cash please, in small bills.
[This message has been edited by Alexander's Horse (edited May 30, 2000).]

[Traianvs]

i couldn't copmplete the game without bribery...

and actually i sometimes have to pay 10000 golf for an engineer or something, now that's ridiculous!!

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[Hasdrubal]

Bribing in the modern era is perfectly realistic. Here's the price list:

-African republics: a shipment of armaments to an ambitious colonel will suffice.
-Former Russian presidents: a few cases of fine vodka. Daily.
-Banana Republics: the amount of dollars that a CIA agent can carry in a briefcase.
-Switzerland: for gold, they'll turn a blind eye to anything.
-The chancellor of the worlds third largest economy: 30 million DM
-The president of the number one nation of this planet: a few fancy tricks with a cigar will do.

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[finbar]

And I'd bribe one of your ships again if the need arose, Horse. The fact is, if you remember, you didn't realise ships could be bribed. Ships are just another unit.

My question is, if you stack two ships, does that render them unbribeable?

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[finbar]

This one doesn't have the legs of the Building on Mountain Hexes, Horse. Not controversial enough. Time for your next one, bub.

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[Mark von Wagner]

Finbar, like you said, ships are just another unit.

[Empress]

You know, until a game with Crusty two months ago I didn't think bribing ships was possible

quote: Originally posted by Mark von Wagner on 06-03-2000 12:37 AM Finbar, like you said, ships are just another unit.

Yeah right, name one ship that was bribed and changed sides in a war!

[The Mad Monk]

The HMS Hermione, perhaps? In 1797, I think?

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The Mad Monk

"The capacity of a grass leaf to grow from the sheath
at its base is a useful adaptation to herbivore grazing.
It has also resulted, over the eons, in the piteous
spectacle of thousands of hominids vibrating behind
their lawnmowers from spring to fall."

-Someone's AP Biology Textbook

[finbar]

Yeah right, Horse, now you're arguing Civ is real life? Chee.

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[This message has been edited by finbar (edited June 03, 2000).]

Oh Great - a ship MAY have been bribed in 1797. That really clinches the argument

[finbar]

*Horse tries desperately to breathe life into a dead thread*

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*finbar tries desperately to kill thread that is very much alive - unlike his first OT thread, which sank without trace after 3 or 4 replies*

[finbar]

*Horse lowers own standards by defining this thread as very much alive and goes on to resort to cheap shots*

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Huh? Cheap shots are my stock in trade

[finbar]

*Horse takes refuge behind self-deprecation when, in fact, the opposite is the case*

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I would like to take this opportunity to thank finbar for keeping this thread at the top of the thread bar. 50 posts, that's 46 more than finbar's last thread.

Subconsciously he obviously wants this thread to succeed. It could also be guilt of course for bribing my ships.

Thanks again Mate

[finbar]

Hate to see a grown Horse cry, Horse.

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[The Mad Monk]

quote: Oh Great - a ship MAY have been bribed in 1797. That really clinches the argument

Ya asked for one example, and one example is what ya got!

If you really want a shipload of examples...

[SCG]

could you not consider bribing a ship as a form of piracy? or even a hijacking? If you don't sink the ship when you capture it, you make it yours, and the cost to bribe can be viewed simply as the expenditure that went into the planning and execution of the exercise, since reducing your treasury is a good way to simulate not getting something for nothing