Banana Embassy

[binTravkin]

At that point an army of say 6 chu-ku-nos or swordsman should be sufficient to completly subjugate the Bannanas it their military grows at a normal rate and consist soley of Ax and archers.

Swordsmen aint gonna do the thing - axes are quite effective vs them, so it's CKNs.

Not to get ahead of ourselves, but with a forge, we could perform something of an "alpha strike" whipping out CKNs - start with 22-29 hammers, whip one citizen for +60, add on one turn's production to get back into the 22-29 hammer window to repeat next turn, albeit at the cost of stacking unhappiness.

Not bad.
If we can look out for some extra happiness by then, we could produce a sizeable army in less than 10 turns.

[PJayTycy]

Impaler,
As promised here is the proposed road path. If another is needed, it could be drawn up with MSPaint. If you would like to make modifications to the road feel free. Do you have a proposed timeline for the building of this trade route?

You friend,
The Diplomatics Banana

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I think we'll have to propose a change in the route

I don't know how much screenshot-editing they do. Could we assume they are really researching bronze working and building a worker? Or are these decoys?

[Senethro]

I'm inclined to trust them. I don't think the Bananas are playing as seriously as we are. Which will make them a softer target.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Bronze Working is adsactly what I would expect them to be researching right now, but the worker dose seem an odd move, I guess they REALY do want that road built asap.

I say that we let them build everything east of the River, we will connect our portion of the road to that point by having a road in our pasture.

[Lacero]

If they don't have a worker at all they're probably building one so they can hook up the copper? Also if they're talking about a second city already they probably went settler first, and they need a road between their two cities.

[Impaler[WrG]]

We already scouted them and havent seen a second city, and I *think* we saw some improvments so this would be their second worker if its legit.

What do people think we should respond with, I say agree the road plan east of the river and we will link to it on our side which we will modify a bit. Each side being responsible for building its portion of the road.

[binTravkin]

I'd say something along these lines:

"O mighty Bananas, we find your proposal for road acceptable and we will be commencing to finishing the first part of it from our side soon (as soon as we finish mine and pasture for 2nd city)."

[PJayTycy]

They are spamming our inbox now

Impaler, Humble Servant of The One Yang,

Have you given consideration to the proposed trade route? Team Banana looks forward to a long and mutually properous friendship with our neighbors, Alpha Centuri. Though the Great Banana, whose name dare not be uttered, will always be worshiped in our land, many of our women have taken to staring in awe at pictures of your Yang. Our nations have much to learn from one another.

Our high priests have gone to the mountain again to smoke the dried skins of bananas. They have come back from their retreat of 5 days and 5 nights with prophetic visions. They saw 7 trees that bore 7 fruits. The two trees... Well one was actually a very large herb plant of the musa variety but for the sake of this story... The two trees closest to our wise priests stood strong, tall, and in the sun. Their roots grew deep, their fruits were sweet and nurishing, and the hippolactuses grazed in their shade. It is understood that these two trees are our blessed nations of the Banana and Centuri. The other trees were but vague shapes lost in the fog of this world. It is unclear what this foretells.

Much discussion has taken place since these visions. We have come to the unamimous decision that if Team Banana or Alpha Centuri should stumble into another tree - er tribe we should speak of the strong friendship shared by the Bananas and Centurians. If we are to share in the bounty of each other's research, why not share in the knowledge of the world as we discover it & at the same time spread the word about our friends? What say you?

With that said, we have yet to meet another tribe.

B-A-N-A-N-A-S
This shi- is bananas!
-The Diplomatic Banana

[33]

While they start with 1 sentence about the road, the rest of the message is a new proposal: share info about tribes we meet. They are probably trying to hold back on researching fishing and sailing, while letting us do the "explore the world" part.

In response:
=> Telling them we will link our road to the river at the tile they proposed.
=> Ask them what their priorities on researching fishing/sailing are, and if they don't want to research that, what we can get in return.

[Chaos Theory]

I'm not too worried about doing a little exploration for them, since after all we do want fishing/sailing for our own purposes.

[binTravkin]

In response:
=> Telling them we will link our road to the river at the tile they proposed.
=> Ask them what their priorities on researching fishing/sailing are, and if they don't want to research that, what we can get in return.

And agree that "that if Team Banana or Alpha Centuri should stumble into another tree - er tribe we should speak of the strong friendship shared by the Bananas and Centurians".

[PJayTycy]

Originally posted by Chaos Theory
I'm not too worried about doing a little exploration for them, since after all we do want fishing/sailing for our own purposes.

ofcourse, but do they know that ?

[Chaos Theory]

Why not be a little nice to the nanas now, since we (or at least I) plan to subjugate them in ~40 turns?

[Lacero]

I have no porlbme doing fishing and sailing as we can ruthlessly backstab them later by not telling them anything about the other tribes and then killing them.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Ok I'll send a reply accepting the road plan and their general "forign relations recognition" agreement.


REPLY SENT

The Diplomatic Banana,

Greating we are as always pleased to hear from our Banananian brother, we have indeed been considering the road proposal and think that it shall be excelent with only a slight modification. We of Yang will take responsibility for building the road west on the river and on the one plot of the rivers west bank, you shall build all that is east of that point begining with the Desert Incense plot. This will acording to my math result in an equal split of 7 road segments each. In addition we will be altering our piece a bit to make it curve north and facilitate connection of our future cities, but do not be alarmed its end shall terminate on the west bank of the river and so long as we both build towards a common meating point each of us may choose the most effecient route to get their.

The people of Yang also accept your proposal to share the fruits of exploration on the sea as we have done on land, being accustomed to the sea so close to our great city has filled us with a yearning to explor beyond the waves. Our scolars may soon look towards developing Sailing which we suspect your people living far from the sea will have no interest in.

Might we also inquire as to planning future discoveries and the possibility for trading them, one of us must discover Writing and then Alphabet for us to trade. Whom do you think should be tasked with this challenge and what could the other exchange in compensation?

[binTravkin]

common meating point

Is this intentional?

Good work, Impaler!