3000 BC Trade Offers

[Jon Shafer]

Just an update, and any possible suggestions welcome...

GoW has offered the Wheel and Warrior Code, and Roleplay has offered Alphabet. This means we have as many techs as GoW, and Roleplay has (at least) 1 more than us. Any suggestions on deals? The techs we have that GoW doesn't are Pottery and Bronze Working, and Roleplay has every one of our techs. I'm going to see what I can get from GoW and see if I can trade anything to Roleplay after that...

Oh, I've also PMed both teams to open up communications.

[BigFurryMonster]

Maybe we can get Wheel/WarriorCode from GoW and trade it to RP for Alphabet ?

[BigFurryMonster]

Oh, and check out the Science Screen, and the research cost screen in the Editor. If the research cost of Warrior Code + Wheel is (roughly) that of Pottery + Bronze Working, go for a trade. I can't access the game right now, but I might check later.

[Jon Shafer]

I offered our two techs to GoW for their two techs. GF and I will probably discuss the deal more thoroughly tomorrow...

[BigFurryMonster]

We traded succesfully with GoW: Warrior Code (research cost: 3) and The Wheel (4) for Bronze Working (3) and Pottery (2). A very profitable deal!

They offered Horseback Riding (5) for Iron Working (6) as soon as we both have those techs.

Espana (Roleplay) offered us Alphabet (5), but we could not offer anything in return. We need to check whether they need Warrior Code or The Wheel.

[Jon Shafer]

They have neither of those techs. Jdjdjd sent me a PM just now about the possibility of trading, and I replied, so we should be getting an offer from them soon. A very good set of turns recently.

[BigFurryMonster]

Try to sell them the cheapest one (Warrior Code).

[CiverDan]

We could try to trade it for WC, but I feel there is too much difference in value between the two techs. The Wheel is more realistic.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

An idea: Offer WC and Wheel for Alphabet and some gold. The combined value of our techs is 7; Alphabet is 5. Some gold-- say, around 20 or 30-- would make up the difference.

Alternatively, wait until we get Horseback Riding from GoW, and trade it to RP for Alphabet.

[CiverDan]

We can't give them Horseback riding if they dont have the wheel....

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Should have thought of that...

Okay, Iron to them for Alphabet and some gold.

[Jon Shafer]

We can't give them Iron Working if we dont have it!

[Vlad Antlerkov]

Aaaaagh!

/me attempts to shoot himself, then realizes firearms haven't been invented yet and bows aren't that great in that respect; then he grabs a spear and pokes his eye out

Once we finish researching Iron Working, offer it to them in exchange for Alphabet and gold.

(Ack. Shouldn't post while in full vacation mode...)

[Jon Shafer]

Do you really think we should wait 10 turns for that?

And besides, now and then, Iron Working will be much more valuable than Alphabet... the only reason we need it is because it leads to a lot of other things. It's not really useful at all. Iron Working is one of the more important techs in the ancient era.

[BigFurryMonster]

Try The Wheel for Alphabet. This tech is closest...