Negotiations with the University

[Googlie]

We have met Zak - in 2125

[Googlie]

Hmm - he doesn't have yang's commlink - should we trade him it for 20 ec's?

(Darn not being able to save the game at this point - we must let negotiations take their course)

[Googlie]

Deleted - Major Googlie was dreaming under a xenorum induced stupor

[Kassiopeia]

(hmm - maybe I can, until someone else can load the turn and we invoke the AI diplomacy simultaneous play rule to see if he will accept the trade, or if he does declare vendetta if we outright refuse

Hmm? We can use that to "play ahead" a bit? If so I can help out and see what happens.

[Zeiter]

He's offering gene splicing? Go for it!

[Googlie]

Great - and anyone else here - can we use the chatroom:

http://googlie2.tripod.com/thespartanfederation/id14.html

and maybe coach me in the negotiations live?

[Kassiopeia]

Alright, I'll dl the save, fire up SMAX and show up at the chat.

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Zeiter
He's offering gene splicing? Go for it!

EWell, not so much offering anything - he's demanding Flex - one of our reply options is to ask for gene Splicing

[Zeiter]

A summary of our transactions with the university:

*Traded Yang commlink for 25 ECs, right?
*Unable to trade any tech.
*Diplomatic stance is...truce? The chat was kind of hard to follow, with the simulator and the game turn going at the same time. .

[Googlie]

Correct

And could have Lal's commlink for 25 ec's if i hadn't changed to planned before meeting Zak

[Zeiter]

Meeting Zak was totally unforeseen, so nothing we could have done anyways. Wait a second: Since we got 25 ECs for Yang's commlink, shouldn't we have been able to purchase Lal's commlink for 25 ECs?

We can try to get Lal's commlink next turn. Hopefully Zak and Yang won't have traded Lal's commlink already, and we'll be able to sell Lal Yang's commlink for another 25 ECs. Overall, pretty exciting, meeting Zak.

[Kassiopeia]

I believe that we were at 35 credits at turn start. We then received 25 credits, and spent 40 on Planned. 20 credits remain.

[Googlie]

No - we had 40 (that's why i could change to planned) - we just got 20 ec's for Yang's commlinks.

Currently (as I changed back from Planned pending the poll results) we have 60 ec's

[Zeiter]

Ah, I see. Perhaps if we changed our energy allocations for this one turn so that we'd have at least 25 ECs by next turn, we could then call up Zak and see if he's still willing to give us Lal's commlink for 25 ECs, and then call Lal and see if we can sell him Yang's commlink for 25 ECs, thus re-imbersing ourselves and getting Lal's commlink in the process. Or we could just wait until Zak gives Lal's commlink to Yang, Yang finds the Gaians, and then Yang calls an election, thus giving us everyone's commlink.

Edit: Bah, I should've let the "switching to planned" debate rest for another turn. Eh, everything can't be perfect.

[Googlie]

Originally posted by Zeiter
Ah, I see. Perhaps if we changed our energy allocations for this one turn so that we'd have at least 25 ECs by next turn ...........

Can do.

Lal is the wealth leader, so we should be able to sell him a couple of non-contentious techs (and when we get our recon rover, and upgrade the current 4, then maybe we can extort enough from him to pay for the upgrades !!)