[Freeciv-Dev] (PR#13828) Buying an AI out of existence.

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Well in this particular instance, I edited the .sav file to bump up the gold, 
more so to test the AI.  But without any sort of cheat, I have been able to get 
several thousand gold per turn, but avoid getting more than 20,000 gold because 
it seemed wasteful.  With enough cities(try being American on one of the earth 
scenarios), and the right improvements, and a long term game(I prefer to win 
without end year or spaceships), I don't find it too hard to believe that this 
could happen.

Anyway, look at ai/advdiplomacy.c line 1219.  "AI must be crazy to trade away 
its cities"

Sort of in the same line, a city on an island essentially owned by an enemy 
except for that city(say a previous capital), should be harder to give away...  
With stuff being looted and technology's stolen by the AI by recapturing a 
undefended city, shouldn't the AI be more cautious with receiving cities?

> [per - Thu Sep 01 06:19:24 2005]:
> 
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Joshua Isom wrote:
> > If you have enough money, often starting at over 110,000 gold, you can
> > get a treaty with a cease-fire, all their cities(if they don't have a
> > capital, and all but their capital if they have one), and sufficient
> > gold, and that player can be bought out of existence in that turn.The
> > AI seems a little too willing to accept treaties with enough gold, for
> > pretty much anything.
> 
> Haven't you heard - everyone has their price?
> 
> Seriously, how did you get that much gold? Did the AI have anything
> similar? If not, well, that is one way to win a game you have already
> pretty much won, I guess.
> 
>   - Per
> 
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