Team Info and Contacts - Templars

[ruff_hi]

wasn't going to push - just request a 'got it' sort of note back. I think I will put that on the bottom of each of our outgoing emails from now on.

[mostly-harmless]

Interestingly the Templars message about mentioning a yellow civ nearby misled us into believing the yellow civ would be on the same continent and in fact produced statements like this from leading chieftains of our tribe:
"I am glad we aren't on the same continent with Imperio.", Zeviz

mh

[mostly-harmless]

Is it worth informing Templars about Imperio before they met next turn to gain additional plus points with them?
If so we have to react quickly, as only the Templars have to finish the current turn.

mh

[Zeviz]

Might as well send them a quick note. It is another of those little things that don't cost us anything, but look very nice.

[mostly-harmless]

Too late now as they have met, but we can still inform them about yellow civ being PAL.
Still no reply from them, btw.

mh

[ruff_hi]

email sent to templar re PAL

Sorry for being a bit tardy here ... I was working on the wife's web site all of yesterday, who knew that trying to get a book published would involve so much work? Well, actually ... I suppose that I did.

[ruff_hi]

new email draft ready ...

Sir Aidun,

Its been a while and I wanted to check that you were still there. We at Realms Beyond are wondering how you are progressing and if you have any news to exchange? Lets keep in regular contact.

Cheers,

Ruff
Your Voice to the Realms Beyond Team

[Sullla]

Pretty good, but I would add a sentence congratulating them on their new faith. Probably done in some sort of hokey role-playing way.

[mostly-harmless]

Please also request a notification that they have received the message.

mh

[ruff_hi]

Will include request. Did I miss something - they got another religion? It's hard keeping up with what is going on - might log into the game tonight and have a poke around.

[sooooo]

A reply from the Templars:

Dear Ruff,

It has been quite some time ago since we last had contact, due to my holiday and other things. I hope your team has fared well. Do you have any plans for a holiday? Many thanks for supplying us with information about the 'yellow civ', PAL.

Ingame a lot of things have happened since we last exchanged emails. As you have seen, we have found your team's location and as we did, we coincidentally got in touch with Imperio, which we have located since. Imperio is located east of you, northeast of us and northwest of PAL. We assume you have noticed that Imperio has built Stonehenge.

We were wondering how you feel about Imperio. Did the diplomacy fare well so far? Do you know something about them that you might like to share with us? Do you perhaps have any knowledge of other teams aside from Imperio and PAL?

Best,

Sir Aidun
Foreign Affairs Minister of the Knights Templar

[ruff_hi]

have a quick draft that is ready to go ...

Sir Aidun,

Thanks for the follow-up. Only a short note at the moment - will need to discuss with team. However, it seems that the 3 people on our land mass have all met. We've met PAL (as you know). We noted the building of Stonehenge but were a bit surprised that it wasn't your city that built it.

Beginnings can be difficult times.

Cheers,

Ruff
Your Voice to the Realms Beyond Team

[Zeviz]

I don't think we should tell them that we were expecting them to go for stonehenge. Aside from that, the draft looks good.

[sooooo]

We were wondering how you feel about Imperio. Did the diplomacy fare well so far? Do you know something about them that you might like to share with us?

What do we think the point of this question is? I'm wondering if they've noticed that Imperio are skipping turns and plan to go on the offensive against them in the future. That would be one reason to ask how our relations with them are. If they do attack Imperio, we may wish to dogpile them and negotiate with the Templars who gets to keep which cities (this is obviously for the future and not to be mentioned in emails).

What about thethe following Paragraph:

Regarding your questions, we do not know of any other civs other than the ones you mentioned. Thanks for the information on Imperio - we have located them too. We can tell you that their capital has floodplains and gold. Contact with them has been sparse. Why do you ask?

[ruff_hi]

Originally posted by Zeviz
I don't think we should tell them that we were expecting them to go for stonehenge.

I added Sooooo's comment and question. I actually like the reference to stonehenge, just trying to keep them on their feet regarding our ability to read the game, work out things, etc. Did they get a cash bump when Imp finished the 'henge? Can we tell if they got a cash bump?