Serendipity Part 3

[Aqualung71]

Ok, how about this then......

Refining base cost is 160. On the formula Dauphin and I worked out previously, cost is about 30g per beaker. That's 4800g.

I'll sell it to each of you for 1600g, effectively sharing the cost 3-ways. By my calculations you're probably both pulling around 650gpt at zero research, so that gives you the tech in 2.5 turns.

That's gotta be a good deal, surely!


Meanwhile, 1255AD to Kloreep

[Kloreep]

1260 AD to Dauphin

Re: Refining deal, we'd actually be only saving 640 gold (320 gold each) on that deal. Certainly enough in an equal 3-way partnership, but equal this situation is not. With the 3200 gold gained you could research the next tech that much faster and we'd have to buy that from you too. And so on and so on.

[Dauphin]

Its equitable, but it also maintains a status quo which is not the primary objective of our research sharing strategy.

At this stage of the game its not so much about how much you save in costs on research, but rather how much you save compared to everyone else. Splitting research equally three ways is less beneficial to a two civ partnership trying to catch up with a third civ with a tech lead, as they don't gain on the trade when compared to the tech leader.

[Aqualung71]

Then how much of an advantage do you require in order to do the deal - so, what's the price? And I guess we're talking about Steel now, since you've just got Refining.

I say "got" rather than "researched", as I suspect you are resorting to stealing my techs now. It may indeed be cheaper than researching them yourself, but it is certainly riskier, even at the "safely" level!

Anyway, if you won't buy them from me, I may as well wait for you both to catch up.....then you can pay full price by researching them yourselves

1260AD to Kloreep

[Dauphin]

I wish I'd thought of that.

[Dauphin]

Have either of you guys migrated to Civ4 at all?

[Kloreep]

I have it, don't really have PBEMs going at the moment; I was waiting to finish the semester at school and for the next patch to come out. I still haven't joined PBEMs, though.

[Kloreep]

1265 AD to Dauphin

[Aqualung71]

No, just don't have the time any more for a new game. I'll have to stick to this one

[Dauphin]

Turn to Aqua. 1265AD

[Aqualung71]

1265AD to Kloreep

[Kloreep]

1270 AD to Dauphin

[Dauphin]

Onwards. 1270AD

[Aqualung71]

1270AD to the Spanish one

[Kloreep]

1275 AD to Dauphin