For the purpose of experimenting, I tried to see how mean I could be to my neighbors until they had enough. The reason why I had the idea to do this was because I was getting mad at my neighbors and other civilizations asking for my help (due to my being much more sophisticated than them). I had enough of Julias Caesar asking me for just a little gold and Ghondi asking for electricity. So I decided not to play Mr. Niceguy anymore and decided to just think about myself. I played almost a whole scenario with this mindset, and it turned out that my civilization stayed as it would have been but the other civilizations were less developed without my help. I though they would get mad at me and maybe even try to go to war with me. But when I declined giving them help, they simply went away and continued to ask me, with no increasing intolerance from them. I was hoping for a little dispute to create some more controversy in my scenario, and I am always looking for a war to kick some butt. I do not believe this is quite as it would have worked in real life times like these, though. If I was to abandon my neighbors, so to say, they would probably want to do something about it in one way or another. A lack of collaboration would probably also hurt my own civlization because a lack of interaction is a cause for less information that you can gain by such interactions.
Thursday, April 5, 2007
help your neighbors?
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I followed a similar strategy that you employed. I was the German empire and expanded quickly in Europe, as well as developed the technologies to aid my exploration and gathering of resources (a.k.a. get to America before anyone else). I also was not very helpful to them and I often asked them for gold while giving them nothing in return. I am the global hegemon in my game with All the Americas and a sizable chunk of Europe under my control. Best of luck with your isolationist strategy and I hope it brings you success in the game.
I've played the game pretty much exactly as you just did. Just from common sense, I thought that if I didn't trade with countries, they'd get annoyed and want to go to war. But after shortly finding out that you can trade as little as you want with countries without making them mad, I decided that was the best strategy to use. Of course I always make a trade that I find beneficial for me, but in terms of charity trades, I've totally stopped that. The whole game's one big competition between your civilization and others, so there's really no point in possibly giving them a competitive advantage of some sort. My advice is, unless you're aiming to win the game by gaining as many allies as you can, I'd steer clear of just handing over things to other civilizations that could beat you in the long run.
I found it very fustrating as well that the other civilizations tried to take advantage of my good resources. Instead of ignoring their requests completely I would raise the stakes to make it benificial for me as well if not just me. Sometimes they would accept other times they would get upset and deny. The only time I wouldn't help out a city was when they asked me to go to war or to stop trading with other countries. Good luck on the rest of your game.
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