Team Info and Contacts - Rabbits

[mostly-harmless]

Rabbits are listed with 27 GNP
-7 epts (4[palace]+3[settled spy])
-9 culture (3[Diggers Burrow{Monument1000years & Islam}] + 6[Caerbannog{Palace & GreatWall1000years}]
=11 beakers/gold per turn.

I figure they will loose Diggers Burrow in T118 and Caerbannog around T125. They might get lucky and get a border pop from Diggers Burrow soon giving them 20% more cultural defense.

In any case it will take them another 6 turns to accumulate 100 gold. They might have given up by then loosing Diggers Burrow and the AI might not remember, that it owes us money.

So we either settle for 50 gold next turn or we forget about it. 50 gold is just one turn of 100% research for us, so not that much.

mh

[Zeviz]

Let's ask them for 50 gold. Free cash is free cash.

[Swiss Pauli]

Offer made.

[mostly-harmless]

mh is no longer pleased:

Rabbits keep spending epts towards us, raising the cost for visible demographics, despite agreeing not to do so couple of turns ago.

Its a minor thing, compared to the problems they are facing, but still an agreement is an agreement and it is annoying for us to divert epts towards Rabbits.

Swiss, can you please send a polite but firm reminder to them? Thanks.

mh

[Sullla]

I'd rather get info on Banana now than Rabbits, so I would vote to stop spending EP with Rabbits right now. Since Rabbits are last in basically every category, I can estimate their GNP/Food/Production numbers from the "Rival Worst" stat.

The one place I can't do this is with the Power stat, since Banana is lower than Rabbits. Still, we don't have a lot of EP to go around, and getting info on Banana is more important.

Also, Rabbits are just idiots. Maybe they don't even know how to open up the Espionage Screen?

[mostly-harmless]

Well, we are not spending any epts on Rabbits since we got the no-espionage agreement with them from T114. If they don't comply with the agreement, we will loose their demograph next couple of turns.
I totally agree, it's not worth wasting epts on them anymore.

mh

[mostly-harmless]

Reminder sent.

mh

[Zeviz]

Should we just offer the a deal in-game? (Worked for Imperio.)

[Sullla]

Would anyone be against sending Rabbits a message like this:

We would like to help the brave people of Caerbannog in their ongoing struggle. As such, we will offer to sell your team any of our tradeable technologies for the discount price of 50g. Please let us know if any of them interest you.

Rabbits lost their horses, so it's not like selling them Horseback Riding would do anything (even assuming that they would pick that tech). And 50g is 50g, worth a full turn of deficit research. What do you think?

[regoarrarr]

I'd be for that - 50g is 50g.

[Kylearan]

Aye, let's go for some cash. It's like selling an AI some outdated tech, which I have a lot of good experience with.

[Zeviz]

I thought we already offered this to them a while ago. If we didn't, let's do it now.

[Swiss Pauli]

@zeviz - we limited the previous offer to Aesth or Monarchy.

Email sent:

Hi Rabbits,

We would like to help the brave people of Caerbannog in their ongoing struggle. As such, we will offer to sell your team any of our tradeable technologies for the discount price of 50g. Please let us know if any of them interest you.

Cheers,

Team RB

[mostly-harmless]

Hi Rabbits,
how is it going? We see you manage quite admirable to hold on against some overwhelming numbers. Are you making efforts towards a peace treaty with PAL?

Regards
TRB

For the unlikely chance that they survive we should stay in contact.
Also we could try to mediate a peace between PAL and Rabbits.

Thoughts?

mh

[Zeviz]

Sounds good. Trying to mediate peace with PAL wouldn't work, because PAL has nothing to gain from it. However, we can still offer them tech for all of their cash in game. (We can even offer them to run 100% cash and buy techs from us once in a while.)