Team Info and Contacts - Rabbits

[Strow]

Can we ask why they are giving gold to Imperio? Can we say something like we will reopen boards if you stop giving gold to Imeprio or can we say we will open boards if you give us 135 gold for HBR.

[ruff_hi]

No, when I logged in, we already had closed borders with PAL but the Gems deal was still active despite Ruff saying he canceled it. Then I went ahead and canceled the deal. I don't recall opening any diplo screens with Rabbits.

mh

You canceled deals via diplo screen. I typically use the F4 'Active' tab which shows all of the leaders. So, it was probably me - eek sorry. I wish they would change leader heads to 'Banana', 'Rabbit' and the like instead of Civ4 leaderheads.

[Dreylin]

So how about:

Rabbits,

Sorry, you're right that there's a good chance it was one of our many logins which accidentally canceled OB; then the rest of us saw your gpt deal with Imperio and jumped to the conclusion you had allied yourselves with them. BTW, what's up with that?

Since Pal have started feeding military techs to our enemies, we have no qualms about continuing to offer ours to you. We have HBR available if you happened to have, say 135g?

TeamRB.

[sooooo]

Looks good. I would add a "sorry" in the first paragraph if it was indeed ruff-hi that cancelled the open borders.

[mostly-harmless]

Sounds good. Send it as soon as possible.
btw. I offered OB in game when I was logged in.

mh

[sunrise089]

I'm cool with the open borders I suppose, but lets not loose sight of the fact that despite them not closing borders Rabbits are still feeding gold to our enemy. The situation isn't a total misunderstanding.

[sooooo]

Email sent.

[ruff_hi]

last week we had no one who was sending emails ... now we have two people. Are we going to continue with this feast or famine role? I'm more than happy to leave it with sooooo.

[Zeviz]

Missed last page.

[Zeviz]

We should work hard on getting Rabbits on our side. There is absolutely no downside and a potential upside of saving a turn of building cash every 15 turns, and denying that cash to Imperio.

Here is a proposed email:

Hi Rabbits,

We will give you any tech (or pair of techs) you want for your 135$, even HBR+Engineering.

Also, whatever deal you have with Imperio, we can offer you a better one. For example, if you cancel your gpt payment to them and instead direct it to us, we'll give you EVERY tech we can sell either as soon as we research it, or in packages at pre-arranged time, and might convince Banana to do the same thing.

TeamRB

[regoarrarr]

I like it - anything we can get to make this even 2 1/2 vs. 3 is good

[darrelljs]

I dunno...it feels a little desparate. Zeviz is right, if this is the best deal we can get it is worth it. I just think laying all your cards on the table at the outset is a bit too weak for our situation.

Darrell

P.S. Did they ever respond to sooooo's e-mail from 4/29?

[sunrise089]

Perhaps a simple "Rabbits, name your price to deal with us instead of Imperio" might work?

[mostly-harmless]

I like sunrises approach.

mh

[Zeviz]

They might hesitate to break an existing agreement, so I am trying to offer them a deal that's too good to refuse. The main reason is that not only does it cost us nothing, but the more we help them the more we hurt PAL.

EDIT: Although Sunrize's approach instead of my paragraph could work too. We should send something today, before they spend the cash, so here is a version incorporating Sunrize's suggestion:

Hi Rabbits,

We will give you any tech you want for your 135$, even Engineering.

Also, whatever deal Imperio offered you for that gpt payment, we can give a better one. Just name your price.

TeamRB

EDIT: Removed HBR reference, as suggested by Ruff.
EDIT2: As sooooo suggested, just Engineering and nothing else.