Kesto11
Member
If you do any amount of negotiating in the GE, dealing with 5-6 options is not so difficult. Will you sometimes get unlucky and fail? Yes, but if you apply simple negotiating rules that just about any trading player can do in his or her sleep then you will generally succeed.
GE negotiating is more consistent when having the 4th turn available. I did that in my sleep before I could fight the entire thing. Having only three turns without diamonds does lend itself to those strings of failure. There's a pretty big difference between 5 and 6 good negotiations with only three turns. I agree it's not difficult, but it does get annoying after failing a few times in a row. It's all probability, and I find the balance to be off. I like the Market, would just like to see a small tweak.
I read that completely differently than you, not surprisingly. I don't read it as they grant special bonus only to your main city, just that that's where they are and where their timer (if they have one) will be. We'll just have to agree to disagree and you'll be right until (if) they make one that does more than what they do now.
Fair enough. I too would like to see options to increase the 4x bonus or other settlement bonuses. I would prefer they not take up an emissary slot that could go to other bonuses, but if they did, there are plenty of players who would do so (including myself) in order to complete settlements faster. And naturally, we could switch if/when not playing the settlements.