Bribing

Hello,

I am in a 2950 game where I am trying to bribe/recruit Saruman to join my nation. The White Wizard turned to my allegiance early and dropped at some point. I located Saruman by using locate artifact true on him for two turns. He is not in any of his pop centers and is in the middle of no where. My emissaryy is ranked at 69 and I offered 15k in gold. I received the folowing messege. “She is not able to bribe the charater because the character was not permitted as a target”. Is this normal? My emmissary’s skill did jumped up to 70 in the attempt. I am not sure as to the normal responses for recruiting other nation’s characters, but why is he not a target.

Hammett

There is a period of time allowed to bribe a character, once this period is over the character is no longer recruitable.

In one game I played in I doubled Duran. The dragon lord was knocked out shortly after. For the next 8 turns Duran was listed as my double agent.

After 8 turns he disappeared from my turn sheet. From this I surmise the window period to recruit a character is 8 turns

Jerry

8 turns is the common figure for double agents, but with recruiting, people often estimate 10. I recruited a nationless chr in G131 at 11 turns, so now I wonder if there’s a range. Up to 12 turns? Or is it really 10, and it depends on whether you count the start and end as inclusive? Hmmm…

Originally posted by Hammett
[b]Hello,

I am in a 2950 game where I am trying to bribe/recruit Saruman to join my nation. The White Wizard turned to my allegiance early and dropped at some point. I located Saruman by using locate artifact true on him for two turns. He is not in any of his pop centers and is in the middle of no where. My emissaryy is ranked at 69 and I offered 15k in gold. I received the folowing messege. “She is not able to bribe the charater because the character was not permitted as a target”. Is this normal? My emmissary’s skill did jumped up to 70 in the attempt. I am not sure as to the normal responses for recruiting other nation’s characters, but why is he not a target.

Hammett [/b]

If you scout for chatacters and see Saruman the White - White Wizard he is recruitable. If the scout shows Saruman the White - unknown he is not recruitable any longer.

At least that is my theory on it.

Didn’t mean to be confusing! Here I meant “a chr without an active nation”, i.e., a recruitable chr. I didn’t scout the turn before – I knew he was there from an LA – so I don’t know if he would have had his (formerly active) nation listed or not, as Celebion describes. It’s an interesting theory.

At least in this case, the chr remained recruitable for more than 8 turns. What’s the upper limit? Dunno.

IF a character is recruited by another nation, will his nation on e.g. ScoChar show as the new nation (that recruitet him) or the old dead nation?

What info will you get from bribing a char from a active nation, similar to a doubble agent?

  • Jeppe

The character will show up as part of the new nation, example Urzahil of the Long Rider!