AI Interactions

[iimstevo]

I'm a bit lost with this... I'm new to M&B anyway, but the trade dialog offers absolutely nothing.
Fiefs, Diplomacy, and Other are always disabled, no matter what.

The Empire are massively overrunning the map, and I want to gift back a fief to one of the factions that were pretty much eradicated by the Empire... yet, no option to do this.

I'm also really struggling to get any kind of reputation or interaction with any AI. There's never anything to talk about... if you gift them an obscene amount of gold, it changes nothing... and I gifted one of my newly persuaded clans a town, and they immediately left my kingdom and went back to being Empire scum!

What gives...? Why are AI interactions so horrific and hard to manage?

 

[Offline]

I think there is a perk in the Trade skill line that will let you barter fiefs (if it works).

 

[iimstevo]

I think there is a perk in the Trade skill line that will let you barter fiefs (if it works).

Right, but if I can't socialise, I can't increase the perks associated with communicating with NPCs. As for trading, it just always seems to be around 5% of my total wealth for any "suitable" action, if not my entire wealth for enemies. I have over 1 million gold at the moment on my current save, and a random nobody wants me to give him all my gold, and all my items, just for him to not engage me in battle...