Team Info and Contacts - Templars

[sooooo]

One thing to clarify for me please, if by chance I had accepted the MC deal in T117 and not in the last second of T116, we would not be able to trade for Machinery this turn, correct?

That is correct.

[mostly-harmless]

That is correct.

The next Templar-loving team member gets a good beating when entering the C&D office.

Do we plan on raising that issue with them? Or let it drop like always, because we are oh so scared of Templars.

Joking.

mh

[Swiss Pauli]

Templars are asshats, but there's no point in calling them names when it will be far more satisfying to simply them

[mostly-harmless]

Well, we have to call them names first.

"I fart in your general direction.
Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time."

Comes to mind immediately.
mh

[regoarrarr]

I think that we should send them a note thanking them for the trade but just subtly reminding them that we know they tried to screw us.

Something like.

Thanks for the trade for Metal Casting. Luckily we were online and able to accept it in the closing seconds of T116, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to complete the deal by offering you Literature this turn!

So just letting them know that we know, but without (on the surface) seeming like jerks

[ruff_hi]

I don't agree with this. I would just send them a note like ...

"Thanks for MC deal on T116"

... and leave it at that. Internally, we add "-2 you tried to jerk us around!" to our diplo modifiers.

[regoarrarr]

Internally, we add "-2 you tried to jerk us around!" to our diplo modifiers.

[Zeviz]

I prefer Ruff's message, especially because it's possible that they simply couldn't agree on whether to trade with us until the last second. They could have just as easily offered us the deal after turn timer rolled over to the next turn. (Don't attribute to malice what can be explained by indecision.)

[sooooo]

I'd like to send a message to the Templars to follow up Banana's message to them.

Hi Templars,

Did Banana email you recently regarding a tech triangle? If not, I'll give you the details we agreed on: If you were to research Drama after your current tech, we could set up the following triangle: You'd supply Drama, Realms Beyond will supply Construction and Banana will supply Calendar.

Interested?

Realms Beyond

I've not included any roleplaying crap because Hercules didn't seem interested in that either.

Need to keep pushing this reluctant team, as getting drama and the globe theatre up is quite important.

[Swiss Pauli]

Fine by me.

[Dreylin]

Looks good!

[mostly-harmless]

Looks good.

mh

[sooooo]

Quorum, n. A sufficient number of members of a deliberative body to have their own way and their own way of having it. In the United States Senate a quorum consists of the chairman of the Committee on Finance and a messenger from the White House; in the House of Representatives, of the Speaker and the devil.

Email sent.

[sooooo]

Templars' lack of diplomacy is really annoying. I'm guessing it's because no one on their team can really be bothered anymore since they're in a terrible position in the game. But they should really reply to emails and tell us that. They started a new tech last turn and it would be really useful to know if they accepted our proposal. Should we sent (yet another) follow up email to see if our tech trade for drama is on?

[Sullla]

Yes, definitely. We should also mention (for the umpteenth time) the fact that we would like to secure a NAP with them for the immediate future, to avoid an arms race, blah blah blah.

Templars are like trying to hold a conversation with someone who's extremely hard of hearing. Most of what you say won't be heard, and will be wasted effort, but if you scream enough you can occasionally get your point across. Remember, we DID manage to get them to trade us Metal Casting, just be never shutting up about it.