Diplomacy: Reports, Instructions, PMs

[Ninot]

Great, Ninot, I'll pass this note on to our players, so they don't forget...

Do you have any plans for future research yet?

DeepO

quote:

DeepO,

We should have Lit within a couple of turns. When you get CoL, offer it to us, and we should be able to respond with our half of the deal by then.

[Togas]

This message was attached to the save from GoW:

We will have Mapmaking in 5 turns would your team be
interested in trading world maps?

[Thrumble]

Originally posted by ruby_maser
Yes, I agree. Darekill wouldn't "dare kill" us if the NAP was extended

It seems omenous that he termed it as "prolonging" the agreement to 1000 BC, though

It is likely that English is not Darekill's first language and he meant nothing ominous by the term "prolong". It was simply a word he knew to mean "extension of."

[astrologix]

Originally posted by Togas
This message was attached to the save from GoW:

I would agree to exchange Territory Maps, but not World Maps.

[DAVOUT]

Originally posted by astrologix


I would agree to exchange Territory Maps, but not World Maps.

ND and GoW have explored our part of the continent; we have much more to learn from them than the contrary.

[Thrumble]

Originally posted by DAVOUT


ND and GoW have explored our part of the continent; we have much more to learn from them than the contrary.

Agreed. ND most likely has virtually our entire area mapped. GoW will know our lands when they trade ND maps, if we don't trade them world maps the only one to lose is us.

[astrologix]

DAVOUT and Thrumble,

I agree, I was wrong

[E_T]

Legoland Intelligence

THe conversation between Shiber (GS) and Vondrack was intercepted today. I then was talking to Vondrack about some more things and then when to ISDG stuff. Here is the transcript:

[vondrack> I have some tough time in Lego these turns
[Shiber> how come?
[vondrack> membership growing a bit nervous
[vondrack> about our lead diminishing
[vondrack> that pay too much attention to the scores, I think
[Shiber> i'm not sure i understand
[vondrack> I mean
[Shiber> what do you mean by 'membership growing a bit nervous'?
[vondrack> they start to worry about the way we play
[vondrack> our members
[vondrack> fellow Legos
[Shiber> who pays to much attention to scores?
[vondrack> well, they do
[vondrack> but seriously, with all the jungle here, it was something to be expected
[Shiber> still having trouble with barbarians?
[vondrack> yeah
[vondrack> loads of them
[vondrack> razed one camp two turns ago
[vondrack> one on this turn
[vondrack> and there is one more
[Shiber> wow, so you must be getting a lot of gold and veterans
[vondrack> nah
[vondrack> gold, yes
[Shiber> i wouldn't be so worried about the wretched jungle then
[vondrack> but veterans?
[vondrack> nope
[vondrack> well, me neither
[vondrack> but I am having difficult times keeping my teammates determined
[vondrack> they start to panic a bit
[vondrack> looking at the scores, they feel like we must be doing real bad, losing that nice lead...
[vondrack> not the majority
[vondrack> but several of them
[vondrack> requires a lot of explaining, analyzing, and posting...
[vondrack> anyway
[vondrack> it's not that bad
[vondrack> just that it used to be a bit easier to run the team
[Shiber> must be fascinating, being isolated like this
[Shiber> i think of all the opportunities...
[vondrack> hehe... everything has its upsides and downsides
[vondrack> just think of how much behind we must be in techs
[Shiber> you'll be behind in tech, for sure, but all that gold from the barb huts will let you buy your way into the top
[vondrack> do you think so?
[vondrack> I'd think money would not be that highly valued...
[Shiber> i'm positive
[vondrack> I heard all the teams over there are now researching Tier 3 techs...
[Shiber> it's true
[vondrack> hmmmm
[vondrack> sigh
[Shiber> where are you in tech?
[vondrack> just finishing Iron Working
[Shiber> OMG
[Shiber> well, if it improves your feeling, i'm sure that GS will cut you fair prices for techs if we're the first to make contact with your team
[vondrack> thanks, appreciated
[Shiber> we've played fair so far and we intend to continue this way until the end of the game
[vondrack> I understand, glad to hear that
[E_T_Waiting> Reminds me of when I was in the SPDG City Planner, I had to spell everything out and still had peopleclambering for more information
[vondrack> hehe, yes
[Shiber>
[E_T_Waiting> the good thing about being so far behind in the techs, is that they will be cheaper to buy
[E_T_Waiting> or research
[E_T_Waiting> Like IW, you just started that and now have it done. You'll Probibly do the same with the Wheel
[vondrack> hmmm... I do not think that techs are getting cheaper
[vondrack> unless we MEET civs that know them
[E_T_Waiting> That Way, you know were all of your resources are and can start building those units
[vondrack> at least IW is exactly 144 beakers for us, no discount
[E_T_Waiting> well. If anything, your research base is a lot more than everybody esle has
[E_T_Waiting> *else
[E_T_Waiting> and that is want you need to emphasize to your people.
[vondrack> hmm, let's hope you are right... even though I would not be so sure... especially you, RP’ers seem to be catching up on us quite nicely last turns...
[E_T_Waiting> It all depends on how you lood at the numbers
[E_T_Waiting> *loog
[vondrack>
[E_T_Waiting> *Look
[vondrack> I know
[vondrack> it's not me who's losing faith... )
[E_T_Waiting> then, just slap them around with a wet noodle....
[vondrack> oh, I'm slapping like mad... ))
[E_T_Waiting> Then don't worry about it, unless the rumbles are enough to get you thrown out of the lego leadership
[vondrack>
[vondrack> it's not that bad yet
[E_T_Waiting> try to make a few of your most outspoken people start doing some number crunching or something, so that he gets a fell for what your talking about
[E_T_Waiting> *feel
[vondrack> oh... get Sharpe do some number crunching? that's impossible...
[vondrack> he just has feelings and concerns
[vondrack> no number crunching
[vondrack> )
[E_T_Waiting> like your F11 Productivity, it must be #1, right
[vondrack> yes, I think so
[E_T_Waiting> then make him feel Important, give him a flashy job and let him get distracted by that... Remember, when you can't dazzle then with your brilliance, baffle them with your bull****..
[vondrack> LoL
[vondrack> good idea
[vondrack> just that when he was asked to run for some post
[vondrack> he said he did not have time enough
[vondrack> but then was the most often posting member...
[vondrack> go figure
[vondrack> I mean - he is often right that this or that could be done in a different way
[vondrack> but we canùt do everything
[vondrack> can't
[vondrack> resources are limited
[vondrack> Trip did right burning his own cities, IMHO

Eta Tamali

[Ninot]

latest from DeepO

Ninot,

I'm sorry for the delay, but as not all our diplomatic contacts were as quick as you to respond to our proposals, we needed to delay the trade one turn. We noticed you discovered literature, and hope you're not waiting anxiously for CoL to build courthouses. Our team considered it wiser to delay the trade, instead of risking upsetting teams on the deminished value of the tech.

I hope you understand, and don't take offense in this delay. If you want to speed the deal up, you could offer us literature in your turn (if it hasn't passed already), but please know that for us it makes no difference, we'll gladly be the ones offering CoL first.

DeepO
quote:

DeepO,

We should have Lit within a couple of turns. When you get CoL, offer it to us, and we should be able to respond with our half of the deal by then.

[Togas]

I sent a note to Vox with the save file asking them if they'd like to trade us something for Literature.

I imagine we will shortly trade Literature to Gathering Storm, and I'd like to have a chance to trade it to Vox at the same time ... if they get back to us. They're probably one of the least organized teams around.

--Togas

[pikesfan]

Originally posted by Togas
They're probably one of the least organized teams around.

Why, are the Big Mouth’s teeth falling out? Maybe we should trade them a dentist instead

[adaMada]

Just got the following message from GoW. Let me know what to tell them and I'll get on it.

-- adaMada

Greetings, adaMada of Roleplay!

Glory of War scientists have been working tirelessly to discover a new technology. We call this "map making". It allows different civilizations to share maps with each other, thus sharing their knowledge of geography.

The Glory of War is working on finding a suitable deal with the Roleplay team in which Glory of War will trade map making to Roleplay for something in return. I was hoping that you would supply us with the information about what you would be willing to trade for map making. By the way, the Glory of War will aquire map making in 5 turns.

Thank You,

Panzer32
Foreign Affairs Consul for the Glory of War

[Togas]

AdaMada -- We can offer them Literature or Code of Laws in exchange for MapMaking. Tell them that we are also interested in trading world maps.

--Togas

[adaMada]

Originally posted by Togas
AdaMada -- We can offer them Literature or Code of Laws in exchange for MapMaking. Tell them that we are also interested in trading world maps.

--Togas

Do we have any preference as to which to give em, or should we let em have their pick (by admitting we can give em either)? Is either tech widely available, or are they both still rare?

-- adaMada

[Togas]

I received the following PM from BFM:

Hello Togas!

We have not talked since some time. This should change, is my opinion. RP is the only Civ on the continent we can really trust. I sent a message to jdjdjd, but he told me I should speak to you personally.

Much has happened since our last posts. The evil ND people, who speak a strange language, have attacked us and we were forced to burn our cities to the ground. A pity. We really hope that they'll not be able to find our last Settler, otherwise, we will be doomed. But we have taken precautions to keep it hidden from them.

In the meantime, we may be able to do business. We learned the secret of Mathematics, which you already know, and will soon be getting Writing and MapMaking. Yes - we are still a nation of traders, as you can see.

As you might know, we are a Scientific Civ, meaning that we'll get a Free Tech once we have all mandatory Ancient Era techs. That is why we want to strike a deal with you.

If you can provide us with two of the following techs: Philosophy, Construction or Currency (or one such tech and an amount of Gold, or one such tech and either Republic or Monarchy), we will give you our free tech in return, once we reach the Medieval Era.

Remember that this tech is free for us, but quite costly for you - the research needed is considerably higher...!

I hope to hear from you soon!

BFM of Lux Invicta

I wrote him back saying we'd consider their offer however, I was somewhat annoyed that our two requests to trade them Writing have been ignored and I'd like to first know why they haven't responded to our attempts to sell them writing before I consider this deal.

--Togas