Banana: Diplomacy Thread #2

[Swiss Pauli]

Chatting with DOnovan in-game. He's available in one hour from now for more discussion (1515 EST).

[sunrise089]

Yes, I could have done so last night, but I thought the chat was called off.

His preferred 11:00pm EST time is fine with me, though other times might work better to get some people in attendance.

EDIT: I can chat at 3:15 EST as well, I'll be in the Banana chat then.

[Swiss Pauli]

Cool. I'll confirm via email

[Swiss Pauli]

How about sending a chat follow up:

Hi Donovan,

Sorry that we didn't have much good news in our chats yesterday, but there's no avoiding the fact that you're in a tough spot. Do you have any follow up questions from yesterday?

Cheers,

Team RB

[Dreylin]

good plan, Swiss.

[Kodii]

I'm sure we've planted a bug into Donovan's head. Banana has made seven whips/drafts.

I expect that they'll finish their turn, thus starting the next one before the clock turns over!

How often does THAT happen?

[darrelljs]

How about sending a chat follow up

I wasn't on the chat so maybe this is off base, but I would think instead of asking if he has any follow-up questions, we might want to setup a follow-up chat.

Darrell

[Swiss Pauli]

Donovan has been whipping stuff and his finished his T167 already, so...

Hi Donovan,

Unfortunately, we need our horses back either on T167, or T168 at the latest. Have you trained/whipped any Knights this turn (T167)?

PS: let us know if you'd like to set up another chat.

Cheers,

Team RB

[Zeviz]

Even if we get horses from them now, it will be too late for Operation Backstab, because Curassier would take 3 turns at CT and turn 170 would be too late for attack on Mutal. (There is no way to speed it up, because CT has no food in box, so we can't even hire an Engineer for a turn.)

[sooooo]

I think banana did a draft, a 2-pop whip and a 3-pop whip. Assuming those whips were for horse-based units, I expect we can have horses back next turn, T168, which is when he said we can have them back anyway.

[sooooo]

Sent this:

Hi Donovan,

Are you still on track to cancel the horses deal next turn (T168)?

Do you want to have another chat tonight?

Cheers,

Team RB

[Sullla]

Good message. We would like those horses back next turn, because that allows us to upgrade a knight or two to cuirassiers if desired. Depending on what sims of an attack on Mutal look like, we may well want to take that step. We simply cannot afford to have our surprise attack on Imperio's capital come up short...

[sooooo]

We got this back:

Realms Team,

If we have a chat, it will have to be at 11pmEST tonight. I'll be out at a fancy dinner while my citizens prepare for an ill-advised war. Let me know if that works for you.

Re: Horses - I can get them back to you next turn if you'd like, though T169 would allow me to complete 2 Knight builds. If you absolutely need them back, let me know so I can change my queues.

Regards,
Donovan

[mostly-harmless]

Do we need Horses to upgrade as well?
If so, then we get ours back now and he can have the Const Horses in 3-4 turns.

mh

[sunrise089]

If all we want to do is upgrade we can get horses back next turn.