How to become Suzerain

[ZebBlake]

I have played 10 different leaders and 250 hours and still can't work out how to become Suzerain of a City State. I keep sending envoys, I had 5 in one City State but no Suzerain. The AI gets Suzerain very quickly and the only alternative for me seems to be wipe them out as they don't seem to help me advance the game. So far City States seem to be way less useful than in previous Civs. Thank You

[CivNut123]

You have to send at least 3 envoys. Secondly, you have to have more envoys than any other civ.

City states also produce "quests" which you can do, in return for an envoy.

[P@inless]

Next to the count of your envoys is the target number of envoys to become suzerain.

[ZebBlake]

Thank you, I still think the AI dominates the City States part of the game. Cheers

[xycotta]

Make sure you use the cards that give you extra envoys per turn and the one that the first envoy counts as two.

And watch the quests

[Kronock]

Just choose one or two to take over. Unlike civ 5 you can't control them all

[Abalister]

Originally posted by Kronock:

Just choose one or two to take over. Unlike civ 5 you can't control them all

This. Focus on 1 or 2 (a scientific one if you go for science, a production one, or a Gold one, etc). Read the description as to what the city state offers and if you like it, go for it.

You can even wait sometimes if you meet a city-state that doesn't match your goals, you can keep your envoys accumulting until you find a city-state you like, and bam, you send all accumulated envoys directly to it.

[Professor H. Farnsworth]

But, you really can control if not all then most of the City-States if you want to, but you don't because:

a) Use all the City-State civic cards.

and

b) You don't use the City-State Government types.



City-State civic cards will allow you to gain envoys faster/have them count for more etc.

The government types will let you send more envoys at once, get more influence and what not.

It all depends how you play ;).

[CivNut123]

One time I had my civ on a continent. It was literally surrounded by 8 city states. :)