Ok. What now?

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Beta
Witt, you have made recommendations to strengthening our defences. And I agree that it is required. Rhoth has done the best we could while getting our economy to this point as well.

But to be honest, I'm not sure building our defences would do much good. If GS and GoW wanted us dead - we would be dead by now. We are alive thanks in part to two things - the good will that we may have built up, and which many are trying to put into this game, and secondly, our research capability.

I think we would simply be a speed bump to the military powers of GoW and GS if they decided to run us over. Although we do have good defensive territory.

I think our long-term survival is going to depend on diplomacy - staying as neutral as we can, while still benefitting from our trade deals. Get some more land if we can. And stay out of everybodies way. The next fight will be among ND, GoW, and GS. From that mess - two survive. And when they go at it - that's our opportunity.

And in the meantime - continue to build as strong a military capability as our limited economy will allow.

I agree with this

Jon Miller

[Jon Miller]

I would like to end the game ahead of RP

JM

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by conmcb25
Playing everyone at the same time will NOT be easy.

When it comes right down to it, we need to keep the closest threat the happiest.

"Keep your friends close and your enemies even closer"

I don't really think that playing everyone at the same time

we should be like a researching switzerland, that everyone agrees is in their best interest to be neutral

Jon Miller

[Beta]

I agree that is the intent jon, but I think con is right - we need to be neutral - with favourites.

[snoopy369]

Definitely agree that we're going to have to have some favourites, although I'm good for tryingoverall to be a sharing civ. I think we can set up gpt deals for most of our techs to allow us to increase our tech lead - ie, if we can get 100+ gpt from several civs for any given tech, we can faster research ... (What are the odds of that do you think?)

[Wittlich]

Though I hate the demise of Legoland - especially after everything they did to save us from death....I have to agree - we need to be "diplomatic" about this, get any terrain we can and wait for the eventual battle that will brake-out on Bob.

Though it would be nice to try and save/rebuild the essence of Legoland.....of course, this is just wishful thinking on my part....