Team Info and Contacts - Rabbits

[ruff_hi]

are you kidding! Are these guys roll playing too - research mining and farming and that it is? If we flick them archery, there isn't a way for PAL to work that out is there?

[Zeviz]

If Rabbits mysteriously get Archery the turn they meet us, PAL might get suspicious. Especially if they have enough EP against them to see research.

[sooooo]

I am in favour of gifting archery to the rabbits. There's a chance PAL would find out, but I think the pros outweigh the cons.

[ruff_hi]

I, too, agree that we should flick Archery to rabbits.

[sunrise089]

I have mixed feelings. I definitely favor it if it will actually help the Rabbits, but I wonder if the war isn't already decided and this is merely a potential diplo faux pas with little upside.

I also have questions about the appropriateness of this whole series of events. Rabbits moving their unit differently resulting in contact and then a military tech trade seems shady to me.

EDIT: Since Krill says it's OK to have made contact this go round, I'm cool with the trade.

[sooooo]

OK, we have 3 votes for making the trade, 2 against. What do other team members think?

[Krill]

Don't worry about the appropriateness. I'm on it already. And go back and win the CCC sunrise, I'm suprised Met could spare you for the 2 minutes it took to write that post

[sunrise089]

Don't worry about the appropriateness. I'm on it already. And go back and win the CCC sunrise, I'm suprised Met could spare you for the 2 minutes it took to write that post

Third place oh great lurker. Lost by 6 points to the $&#^ Germans, we'll get them next time.

[mostly-harmless]

I think Rabbits are finished- Not sure it would be any help to them, if they get archery from us now.
We may as well ask them per email.

mh

[Swiss Pauli]

We can always tell PAL that Rabbits asked for Archery to combat their barb problems

And they are completely farked as far as I can see. Did they chase religions and fail to get any of them? Quite why they were going in this direction when they neighbour a team full of MP guys I don't know...

[Sullla]

I am in favor of sending Rabbits Archery, for what it's worth. PAL told us they needed horses to fight "barbs", then turned around and whipped a dozen War Chariots in order to destroy a neighbor. In light of that, they can't really complain too hard about us gifting a very inexpensive military tech to Rabbits.

In a larger sense, I'd REALLY like to know how much crack the Rabbits were smoking in this game. How could they ignore even the most basic military technologies when next to PAL?!?! It's inconceivable. My ex-girlfriend who used to play on Chieftan had better sense than that.

Lord save us from the idiots on the other teams in this game.

[regoarrarr]

I logged in last night and it looked like the trade (gift) of Archery went down. There was a message from Rabbits saying "Thanks! :-)". I told them good luck.

[Sullla]

Yes, Rabbits score went from 204 to 210 on CivStats, so they accepted our offer of Archery. We'll see how closely PAL has been paying attention to things, if they notice or not.

It's equally possible that either our team or Imperio could have gifted them Archery - but Imperio's general diplomatic inaction does make us the likely suspect.

[mostly-harmless]

Well, we get a big fat +4 "Our trade relations have been fair" on the foreign relationship screen. Hard to cover up.
Anyway, the archery against barb threat statement is solid.

mh

[Zeviz]

Should we ask them to research math and we'll pay them monarchy? (Presumably our next tech.)