Team Info and Contacts - Rabbits

[mostly-harmless]

We should not mention Templars to them at all, as they have not met that civilisation yet.

mh

[Swiss Pauli]

I think we can talk to them about Templars as much as we like, the only restriction is on them contacting Templars before meeting them in-game.

[Zeviz]

Yes, the only restriction is in-game contact. Us trying to pass messages through other civs is exactly in the spirit of roleplaying lack of direct contact.

[mostly-harmless]

Hi Rabbits,
can you do us a little favor and relay a message from us to Banana, please?
Message:
Rumours have it you are allowed to sail north with your workboat. Be assured our envoys are waiting to spot your sails on the horizon. We are currently enjoying the hospitality of the Rabbits.

Thanks a lot.
We feel that we can work closer together against any foreign aggressor if we can coordinate contact with all civs.

RB

That should go out soon.

Btw. Banana is back to one man team again.

mh

[ruff_hi]

email from the wabbits ...

It seems this was the last mail received.

To give an update: PAL appearantly traded extensively with at least Imperio, and so gave them the ability to field Maceman on top of catapults. I suppose I don't need to draw out there's nothing Caerbannog can put against those kind of units. In short, without either the ability to train landsknechts or crossbows (or perhaps longbows) our civ is history in 20 turns max.
Any chance you can help us get one of those types of units? And what would be the price (speaken in long term then)?

Cheers,
Team Caerbannog

[Sullla]

Obviously we're the wrong civ for them to be talking to here...

The best we can do is tell them that Imperio is the civ that has Feudalism, and Banana has Machinery - except that they can't even gift them Machinery, since Templars were the ones to discover that, and Templars don't have contact with Rabbits.

Yeah, Rabbits are goin' down in a hurry. PAL's enormous spike on the Power graph over the last five turns kinda hinted at that.

[regoarrarr]

Worth giving them any MP advice?

[Swiss Pauli]

email sent:

Hi Rabbits,

Templars hold the key to Crossbows as they are the civ who researched Metalcasting, so there's no chance of you getting Machinery from Banana.

Imperio is the only civ with Feudalism, so you'd have to ask them to trade it to you.

It doesn't look good for you, I'm afraid.

Cheers,

Swiss Pauli

I was tempted to ask them wtf their gameplan was, but I couldn't be bothered, as I feared their answer would reduce me to tears of laughter.

[mostly-harmless]

Hi Rabbits,
can we agree to stop spending espionage points at each other?
We suggest you invest one more ept to see our demographics (current cost 42 - you have 41, we have 43) and we refrain from raising the cost by spending ept against you. This way we are both happy and can spend our espionage points against more "pressing" civs.
What do you say?

TRB

I just don't want us spending epts against a team that might be history soon.

mh

[Zeviz]

Sounds good.

[mostly-harmless]

Message sent. Espionage points adjusted.
If they refuse we can always catch up again next turn.

mh

[mostly-harmless]

Head over to the Disputes thread in the main forum.
Looks like Rabbits quit the game.
I am having a look what effects that can have (apart from PAL having free reign on 3/4 of a 4 civ continent!!!!).

EDIT: I am not even sure how you can set your civ to be controlled by AI. Any ideas?

mh

[sunrise089]

In normal MP you just exit the game...but in Pitboss? Maybe just auto-everything and alt-build archers everywhere.

[ruff_hi]

my understanding (PBEM supported) is that Ctrl-Q will retire you from the game and that an AI steps in.

[mostly-harmless]

EDIT: Zoid confirmed it.

mh