GS-Lego trade mess

[Hot_Enamel]

Just letting evryone know, that my timezone really sux. When I agreed to take on GS, I told Panzer that he will have to deal with GS if anything important/urgent comes up.

Unortho...No Probs mate...go for it.

I have also just PM'd Zeit a personal note appologising for the screw up, and telling him that because I am at work, I will have to let my team members sort it out.

Good Luck guys.

[Hot_Enamel]

Just my personal opinion...which may be too late anyway.....

Lego got a really good deal from us to bring them up to tech parity. The plan was to use this first contact get get a strong partner in Lego, and also make some money by reselling contact.

I believe Lego are being completely unreasonable. They got 4 techs for 1 !!!!!!!!
And that 1 tech would be available from GS in a couple of turns later. Lego should of been reminded that they got a good deal and that they are risking our friendship over not being a little bit more flexible.

I am most certain that GS & Lego have been talking and they have come up with this plan to screw us. Lego are taking this stance to hurt our relations with GS...and now GS and going to use the situation to screw us over compensation.

I say we should take a stand, and call Lego's bluff. Tell them we insist they give us the opportunity to come up with a solution for all parties. If they dont, tell them they have made an enemy.

donegeal, you have to play good cop/bad cop.
You are the guy in the middle...the good cop. Tell them the team is furious that they wont give us the opportunity to back out of the deal. you are the good cop..on their side...but you need them to be flexible to appease the bad cop GoW team...

blah blah blah...I have said enough.
Sure I have spent alot of time trying to heal our GS relations after the first trade fiasco. So I have an interest in treating GS right. But I just think Lego are being completely unreasonable after what we did for them.

The only other point is, I would rather have a pissed off builder team than a pissed off GS. GS are a much more dangerous team.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

I think we should offer to split all of our profits from trading contact with Lego and selling Philosophy with them for our (my) mistake.

Here's 20 gold now go sit in the corner.

We can probably make more off of Polytheism since we are the ONLY civ that has it.

You do realize that we are the wealthiest (341 gold) and the most technologically advanced (we have every tech everyone else had and one tech no one else had) civ in the game right now. How the heck did that happen?

[Donegeal]

GoW also stands for Glory of Writting.

[UnOrthOdOx]

How many turns are now left on the NO-trade clause, anyway? 6? 7?

I say tell Lego to wait, and we'll throw in a bit of cash for the inconvenience.

[Donegeal]

They already have it. Its too late to deal with Lego. We need to see GS take on the matter.

[UnOrthOdOx]

We should have asked both ND and RP to sit on the save for their 24 hours to give us time to work this out first...

[Panzer32]

I think this type of mess-up was what the central trade thread tries to alleviate. Everyone, before making a deal, check there, and after making a deal, edit the post.

[GhengisFarbâ„¢]

From zeit:

Honorable consuls of the Glory of War!

The time has come to set this thing behind us. I have recieved both GhengisFarb's and UnOthOdOx's letters, and realize the urgency in solving the matter, before you have to send the savefile onwards.

The problem is that here were two , a bit different, offers for compensation, one from GhengisFarb and one from UnOrthOdOx. Both shared one thing, and it's Legoland contact, but were different in the additional gold compensation.
I do not wish to influence the debate on your team, if such one exists, on what sum of gold is appropriate.
Any of these offers is adequate, and will allow the GoW-Lego deal to be carried out without any reservations from us.

In short, either contact with Lego plus half the gold you got from trading their contact, or contact with Lego plus half the gold you got from trading with Lego is fine by us. You may carry on with your deal with Lego, and send us their contact, as well as a sum of gold that reflects one of these two offers.

Yours
Zeit, Chief Diplomat of the Gathering Storm.

[Panzer32]

if we chose this one: "contact with Lego plus half the gold you got from trading with Lego", we only have to trade contact, since no money switched hands!!