Hello dear citizens, this is the Term 7 Secretary of State thread.

Current relations:
Mongolia: killed
Germany: We're at war with them, but we can make a peace treaty or a cease fire for nothing (they won't give anything either).
Russia: At peace, we can renegotiate a deal with them.

Turnchat orders:
cancel copper deal with Russia, and make this deal with Russia: 5 gold/turn for wheat. If they don't accept this deal for some reason, trade 5 gold/turn for clam.

dutchfire...when we get a censor would you like me to ask for a poll on that request for optics.

Its a can you spare this not a demand right?

If you dont respond I will look at the save to answer my questions and start a citizens discussion till we get a censor.

Yes it's a "Could you spare this for a good friend" thing, so it can't do any harm.
Btw, if you're going to poll things, you can also ask what the citizens want to give/get for peace, something like this:

give city
give tech
give gold
nothing
get gold
get tech
get city
abstain

and then making it a cumulative poll.

OK sounds good...

IF I am president... I will try to get people appointed by July 4th and then issue a stop order if the TC is before then as soon as we are able to talk to Bismark. That way we can poll.

updated...

Before we make this demand from Russia, perhaps we should discuss what it will do to our relationship with them. I understand from the instruction thread it's a "can you spare this for a friend" type demand, but I think even that might give a -1 on the relationship. Before proceeding, please check on that.

I agree with Dave. Spare for a friend is thr only demand we should make.

Guys, I know what I'm doing, I already checked it three times. I just gives us those extra beakers, and doesn't change our relationship at all.

I trust you Dutch. I guess it was the word "Demand" that had us worried.

Cool, that works for me. :)

I had never tried that, guess allies really are allies in Civ4. :D