Team Info and Contacts - Imperio

[Zeviz]

I agree, because the 50 turns can also be seen as a minimum, so it would guarantee the security of our land grab.

[sooooo]

Fine by me

[mostly-harmless]

Yep, fine.

[ruff_hi]

I think that is a quorum ... I'm traveling this afternoon and will forward above draft when I get home (about 7 hrs from now).

I'm also AWL (Away with leave) until Friday night - can someone please keep an eye on our email?

[ruff_hi]

email sent

[ruff_hi]

no response from Imperio. Can we get a spanish translation of the above - I think it makes us look pretty good that we are going to the effort of translating - even if the translation is pretty bad. Just as long as it doesn't look like babel-fish.

[ruff_hi]

bump - any Spanish translation out there?

[darrelljs]

Oops...I haven't been paying too much attention lately. Let me try and get something.

Darrell

[sooooo]

Once we settle our next city we may need some major brownnosing with imperio to sooth their concerns. Just a heads-up!

[darrelljs]

Imperio,

El equipo RB le gustarÃa proponer lo siguiente:

Pacto de no Agresión

Términos:
1) Imperio y el equipo RB comienzan el pacto de no agresión hasta el turno 100
2) El Pacto de no agresión puede ser cancelado por cualquier equipo en cualquier momento
3) La guerra entre el Imperio y el equipo RB no puede ser declarada hasta 20 turnos después de la cancelación del pacto (o del turno 120 si no hay cancelación del pacto de no agresión)

[ruff_hi]

Spanish version sent. Original was sent Sept 16th with no reply.

[regoarrarr]

As you may have already seen - they just responded to our email, saying

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The Imperio team are agree with the terms of the pact.

We considerate the pact singned in this moment.

Sorry for the lag in the answerd, we are searching a better embassador to
speak with your team in english. My level is so bad and many part of the
team was very busy.

MiTH of the Imperio.

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Kind of funny timing given our little tete-a-tete with the settling :-D

[mostly-harmless]

If we are really paranoid:

They must be pretty sure to settle ahead of us. So signing the pact just now makes sense from their point of view, as their city would have caused some concern with us and the NAP will give them breathing time to stand up the city. They could have held back the NAP because they wanted to see if they could get their first safely.

They might be in for a surprise.

But again, this is a thought if we are really paranoid.
;-)

mh

[regoarrarr]

I think you are partially right. I think that they do think they are going to claim this area before us because they have not seen our settler or have any idea that we have one anywhere in the area.

And so since they probably (rightfully so) consider this kind of neutral territory, they want to take it and then have the NAP backing them up.

Since they've already moved this turn (as have we) there's no way they can guarantee they beat us. Even to settle in place they have to make sure they play the next turn before us, which is an even guess.

So count me in the camp of "they're going to be in for a surprise"

[mostly-harmless]

I think an acknowledgment of the NAP is in order together with a quick statement regarding Cape Town.

"...apparently you wanted to settle there as well ... contested region ... we are sure there are lots of other good spots ... hope they still stand by the NAP ... although recently teched to Iron Working ..."

mh