>>2125156
Perhaps it's just anons trying to get traffic stir up? That's my hope anyway.

>>2125438
Was it one of the four Materium/merchant ruler AI scripts? They are very hard to get reasonable demands/deals out of them. Artisan is not too bad, and while Economic Warlord won't surrender they will do decent deals if in a tight spot, but holy shit Competitive Merchant and Solitary Isolationist will sooner let their grandma die than not make a 30% profit on the ordeal.

>need a bit of mana one round
>Competitive Merchant wanted an exchange of 107 gold for 19 mana
>Later I tried selling a tier4 item to him, only offered 29 gold
>maxed relations with him, and a +500 modifier a turn
>still wanted 80 gold for a Wizard bond

Now any time I see that behavior modifier, I just go to war with them asp and clean them off the board. I don't even think Sinister spy can get me this fluster with it's schizoid behavior waffling between rivalries and friendships with everyone.