If I may humbly use your thread to ask a few questions myself:
First of all, exactly how do you tribute a unit? Do you go into the Tribute screen and enable a "tributing mode", do you click a button on the unit's UI (like you did to kill units in AoK), is there a hot key for it, etc.
Second, is there a foolproof, or should I say slick-guy-proof way to trade resources, that is, is there a system that prevents a player from agreeing on trading 100 gold for 3 swordsmen, and then "forgetting to" hand over the swordsmen after he's received the gold? You could for example propose a deal and then the player you're talking to gets a chat message like "Player 1 wants to tribute 100 gold to you in exchange for 200 Wood. Do you accept this trade?", and then you can somehow tell the game if you agree?
Now, I'm not sure if there should be, backstabbing being a part of any game.. I'm just asking.Midgard Eagle.
Woad Creations veteran, WiC junkie