The only civ with which you can trade is also the primary (ummm only) adversary.

This is what I thought about trading in a situation like that please tell me if I am correct:

You trade with ONLY ONE ENEMY CITY. If for example you have 12 cities you build trade routes with only one AI city thus you get multiple trade arrows for all your cities but the AI gets only 3 trade routes. In this way you don't benefit the enemy but you still get all the bonuses (although not the specific trade requested).

quote: Originally posted by Smash on 01-26-2001 07:41 PM There is the caravan bomb tactic but I don't think its a very good plan.

Smash - do you mean giving the AI city food caravans to make the place grow?

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SG(2)

If you confine yourself to the one city you will hamper your ability to maximise the gold/beaker bonus. That bonus represents a significant proportion of the value of your investment. OK a range of profitable routes with a single opponent gives him equal trade arrows with me from the routes. But that is mere equality. I have had the bonus and that means the value overall favours me. And the bonus is paid up front.