This thread is only for documenting diplomatic correspondences with Team Quatronia. Please see the QUATRONIA Diplomacy Discussion thread for discussion of these messages.

From us to QUATRONIA
Sent: Sunday, July 4th, 08:01 (GMT)

Hail and well met!

The Sirian people extend warmest greetings to the peoples of Quatronia. Our exploration vessel Voyager spotted a vessel of the Quatronian empire, the Rio Grande, in the eastern reaches of the known world, and hurried the news to our high council. The entire Sirian nation celebrated the news of our meeting. Truly the stars shine brightly upon us!

We hope our greeting finds the Quatronian empire doing well. Our friends the AMAZON, who reside to the north of Rio Grande’s current location, have impressed us with stories of the wonders of Quatronia and the just and fair Quatronian people. We therefore offer any Quatronian vessels safe harbor within our open Sirian borders, and their crews the hospitality of the Sirian people.

We are currently organizing our high council to send a more formal greeting, for we feel we have much to discuss, and we hope to bring our two great nations closer together. Please feel free to send all diplomatic correspondence to sirius.mtdg@gmail.com. I will be serving, at least temporarily, as the diplomatic liaison between our great empires. We look forward to hearing from you.

Respectfully yours,

Trystero

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Tuesday, July 6th, 20:21 (GMT)

Dear Trystero:

Our people are very glad to have finally met yours. We can finally communicate directly with our allies in the ETTT. The Amazon have also told us of the exploits of the Sirian people, particularly how you researched alphabet before we even started on it. Sirius is truly the brightest nation of all.

Our nation meeting yours has been a milestone in our exploratory journeys; we have now made contact with all civilizations. We have explored extensively and are happy to answer any questions you might have about other teams.

Our island possesses silver, wheat and spices in abundance, we are curious as to the resources you possess that we might be able to trade in the future.

In regards to the development of the ETTT, we have just finished researching archery and would like to trade it to you for mathematics as per the ETTT so we can start on calendar. As you may or may not know, we have offered CDZ, who lie south of Merlot and east of us, membership into the treaty. We are glad to report that they have accepted. They will bring iron working with them.

We are happy to accept your offer of open borders and to reciprocate the offer. We have another workboat, the Ganges, whose explorers were disappointed they did not get to be the first to meet your nation, as they are within sight of your borders.

On a completely different topic, as an amateur astronomer, I am looking forward to seeing what you decide to name your cities.

Cordially yours,
CharlemagneXLII

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Wednesday, 7th July, 16:13 (GMT)

Dear CharlemagneXLII ,

Thank you for your response to our initial greeting. We learned from The Amazon, shortly after we dispatched our messenger, that you had agreed to the terms of the ETTT. We are most pleased that our great nations will be brought closer together through trade, and will be able to advance more rapidly through a more guided use of our research efforts.

We also thank you for your offer to share the knowledge you have gained through exploration, and that of your resources. We have surmised that each nation on our world was founded on an island between the arms of a great star-shaped continent. Furthermore, we have guessed that the creator bestowed upon each great nation resources unique to its homeland. No doubt this was with the hope that all of the creator’s peoples would work together to become great. Our island contains gold, silk, and fish. We’ve noted that other resources, such as clams, appeared to be distributed symmetrically around the star. This is yet another example of the creator’s grand design.

We have also discovered that although we may venture off our home island, and we may exchange knowledge with you, we are unable to trade resources until we master the use of the stars to navigate.

With regards to the ETTT itself: We will gladly and freely provide you with the technology you request, and have already offered you Mathematics in-game. We feel it best that these exchanges be made as gifts rather than requests or trades, so that the identity of the trading partners will not be completely obvious to those outside our alliance. We realize this is somewhat complicated and of dubious effectiveness, but would rather rely on discretion in these matters. Regardless, we are extremely grateful for your offer of Archery, and look forward to receiving this knowledge from you. We feel that we should shortly convene a council of the ETTT members so that we can best organize our research efforts. Nevertheless, we agree that for the present researching Calendar is a worthwhile endeavor. Our efforts our currently focused on establishing a Currency.

We were also extremely pleased to hear that you have managed to bring CDZ into our alliance. We have just encountered one of their vessels, and have dispatched an envoy to greet them. Once we have established diplomatic ties with them, we will begin a technology exchange program.

Finally, I am happy to announce that our high council has formally installed me as our diplomatic envoy to the Quatronian people. I look forward to long, fruitful alliance between our great nations. We were also glad to hear of your interest in the stars and hope in the future we may invite you to our Sirian observatories to gaze upon our namesake.

With warmest regards,

Trystero, Sirian Diplomat

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Sunday, 11th July, 22:25 (GMT):

Dear Trystero:

Thank you for your speedy reply, and I apologize if our replies are not quite as speedy as yours.

In regards to the lack of trade before astronomy, our team has come to the same conclusion as yours.

We will look to gift technology from now on, it is more efficient that way. We have received IW from CDZ, and gave them about 6 technologies in return. They are no doubt quite pleased to be in the alliance. Iron working will be on its way to you shortly, if it hasn't reached you by the time this message does.

We have discovered iron in the middle of our island, and have guessed that you will soon make the same discovery on your island.

Now, to some unpleasant business. Our neighbours to the northwest, the Mavericks, have been hounding us with tech trade offers. If you recall, they have been left out of the ETTT. At first they offered us monotheism for techs totaling twice the worth of monotheism, then they offered monotheism for everything we have. In a bizarre reversal, they then offered monotheism for animal husbandry, and we politely declined the offer, having received mono from Amazon. They have now offered to trade Metal Casting, but we have come to the agreement that it is not worth going outside of the ETTT to research, and will not be requesting permission to do so.

CDZ is currently researching Metal Casting, but in the meantime, we are a bit concerned about any potential Maverick aggression from triremes once they realize they are being left behind; if you get in trouble with any triremes let us know and we will do what we can to help.

We also plan to prevent Merlot, the other team left out, from making contact with Mavericks, since our cultural borders might stop their workboat. If that doesn't, our galley will. Just be aware that they have a galley north of their homeland, near Amazon.

Sincerely,
CharlemagneXLII

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Friday, 16th July, 07:37 (GMT)

Dear CharlemagneXLII,

We thank you for your offer of Iron Working, we look forward to receiving it from you, and hope we too have an accessible source of iron. We should have Currency in a few turns, and will share that with you as soon as possible.

We also thank you for the warning about the Mavericks triremes. We should have a city established that we could use to close our borders to Merlot shortly. If it arrives before then, we should have a galley in position to stop the work boat. We would have much more trouble with a Maverick trireme at this point, obviously. We are currently attempting to settle the arm of the great star closest to Mavericks so as to deny them access to strategic resources. We are unsure of how effective this will be if they also have iron on their home island. Regardless, since Mavericks lie between our empires, we agree that we should coordinate our actions against them to our mutual benefit.

We will keep you apprised of further developments.

Sincerely,

Trystero

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Sunday, 18th July, 18:40 (GMT)

Dear Trystero:

Just a brief note to point out that it is a Merlot galley that could be headed your way. It is currently in Merlot waters, probably being used for transportation, but could go try to make contact after we sink their workboat. We just want to make sure you know what you're dealing with, though we hope this doesn't change anything in our plan to prevent contact between Merlot and the Mavericks.

Sincerely,
Ambassador CharlemagneXLII
Team Quatronia

From us to AMAZON, CDZ and Quatronia:
Sent Wednesday, 21st July, 08:16(GMT)
Greetings fellow ETTT members.

Now that we have all finally met each other, it seems sensible to co-ordinate our technology plans into the future.

Our current understanding is:
Sirius: Code of Laws
Amazon: Monarchy
Quatronia: Calendar?
CDZ: Metal Casting

There are many benefits to getting Astronomy on this map, so it is our suggestion to tech towards it as quickly as possible. This means there should always be one team should be researching one of:
Metal Casting->Machinery->Optics->Astronomy. Another team can get the cheaper techs of Compass and Calendar in parallel (both fairly beneficial techs on their own). It also seems wise to pursue Civil Service soon for the bonus Beaurocracy can provide to all of our research rates.

In principle it shouldn't matter which team researches which techs, if we're all sharing them. Although it may be wise for the teams with faster research rates to look after the Astronomy beeline and the key economy techs such as Civil Service which will speed up everyone's research.

What other technologies do people think are important?


One final issue; Our understanding is that it is best to transfer techs as gifts rather than damnds or trades, to avoid making it clear who is trading based on who is logged in when the teams' scores increase. It should therefore be the researching team's responsibility to push out the techs as they discover them. Now that all members have made contact this should not be a problem in the future.

The likelihood of disguising what's going on is low, but for the moment in particular we have not even made contact with Mavericks, so it is unlikely they know all of what's going on. It is better to keep them in the dark for as long as possible.

With all that in mind, we would greatly appreciate it if the next team to log on could offer us Iron Working in game. It seems to have been lost in the shuffle with all the techs swapping back and forth.

Best regards,
Irgy, on behalf of team Sirius

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Thursday, 22nd July, 00:35 (GMT

Greetings Irgy of Sirius,

The Continuum is always pleased to hear from our partners from across the world.
The Q have been discussing similar things and were drafting up an email even before we received word from our neighbors.

In regards to our technology paths we also wanted to align plans for the near to long term. We are indeed researching Calendar as you so rightly acknowledge. Our scientists anticipate we will understand it secrets it 2 turns. Depending on what or treaty partners think our short term plan was to then head for Compass as it aligns with the will of our people. It may therefore be reasonable for us to also finish off that tech path by researching Optics.

Looking forward to hearing the thoughts of our other Tech partners,
Sincerely,
CharlemagneXLII

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Sunday, 25th July, 04:12 (GMT) [by PM from Trystero]

Dear CharlemagneXLII and Quatronian friends

This is just a brief note to keep you abreast of recent developments. We noticed your declaration of war against Merlot, and surmise that you sank one of their work boats. Apparently a Merlot warrior attacked the Amazons drawing them into the conflict.

We have made contact with Mavericks this turn. Their work boat encountered a galley of ours near our cultural borders. Unfortunately, our cultural borders won’t pop in time to prevent them from passing. We have a galley in position to sink the work boat, however we are concerned because they informed us that a trireme was following close behind the work boat. Even if we sank the work boat, we could not stop the trireme.

Also, they offered us Machinery in trade in 2 turns, suggesting they could have crossbows soon if they hook up iron (We don't think they have Iron Working yet). The combination of triremes and crossbows could cause problems for us. We are therefore inclined to let the work boat pass to buy us time, but we wanted to consult with you first. We have warned Amazon of its approach with the hope that they could prepare to stop it.

We would appreciate your thoughts on these developments

Thanks,

Trystero, Sirian diplomat

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Sunday, 25th July, 12:44 (GMT) [via PM to Trystero]

Dear Trystero:

We have indeed sunk a Merlot workboat. Their attack on Amazon indicates that they may be aware of our alliance.

We suggest you do not worry about the Maverick boat, and leave it to Amazon if they are able to deal with it. We are actually letting a Maverick WB through to CDZ, where culture will stop it. This way members of the ETTT are not at war with their direct neighbours, and we do not violate the non-aggression pact we signed with Mavericks when we met them.

The Mavericks have also offered us machinery, hopefully CDZ can research it relatively soon to counter that. They've finished metal casting, so we'll be able to counter triremes soon at any rate.

From QUATRONIA to ETTA:
Received: Thursday, 19th August, 15:29 (GMT)

To all the members of the ETTT:

To start, a tech update: Quatronia has completed research on compass and we will start on optics, once we have the required machinery. When can we expect this? We are not entirely sure what the rest of the alliance is up to techwise, so if you could give us an update that would be great.

We have been exploring the mainland quite a bit and have discovered several strategic resources. We suspect that the peninsulas are quite similar, if not exact copies of each other. On the peninsula with plains at the tip we have discovered stone, bananas, incense and copper (both us and CDZ have settled here). On the desert peninsula, between us and the Mavericks, we suspect ivory and marble. We would be interested to hear of any of your discoveries on the mainland.

We have just spotted the Maverick work boat heading back the way it came after being turned back by CDZ, so good work there guys, denying contact between Merlot and Mavericks will maintain a bigger advantage for the alliance. Have Sirius and Amazon seen any exploring boats from those two?

If Amazon is ready, Quatronia would like to enter a peace agreement with Merlot, seeing as we are not going to do anything to each other, and the double move rule has become a bit of a hassle.

Cheers, from sunny Quatronia.

From us to ETTA:
Sent, Friday, 20th August, 19:15 (GMT)

Fellow ETTA members,

Tech update: This seems like a good time to coordinate our activities. We anticipate completing Civil Service next turn. We have not decided what technology it would be best to pursue next. Given some of the military entanglements, we were considering Feudalism, but Paper is also an option once Theology is complete.

Mavericks situation: We were contacted by Mavericks ~10 turns ago, when their work boat entered our territory. At the time, they stated it would soon be followed by a trireme. Since we had no vessel that could contend with a trireme and our borders had not expanded enough to prevent the work boat’s passage, we let it pass. However, we have since seen no sign of this other vessel. It’s possible it turned around when we let their work boat through, or that they were bluffing about its presence. Regardless, their work boat took a detour into the channel leading to the mainland’s center. It re-emerged a few turns ago, and is just now leaving our territory. We will alert you if we see a Mavericks trireme, but it looks like Amazon could halt the work boats progress by refusing to open borders.

Resources: We are currently exploring and settling the mainland arm between ourselves and Mavericks. This arm has a plains tip with stone, pigs, copper, and incense resources. Mavericks may have settled a city here as well, as they claim to have settled near copper, but we haven't seen their cultural borders. We'd expect to be able to see them but we haven't fully explored the continent yet. The arm between Amazon and us appears to have a desert tip with marble, bananas, horses, and ivory resources.

Trystero, on behalf of Team Sirius

From us to the ETTA:
Sent: Monday, 23rd August, 04:41 (GMT)

Fellow ETTA members,

Based on feedback from other teams, we will pursue Paper next to enable map trading. This is not necessarily a high priority for us, but other members seem to have the immediate tech needs covered. Our current understanding of the research plans are:

Sirius: Paper
Amazon: Theology > Construction
Quatronia: HBR (partial) > Optics
CDZ: Machinery > Feudalism

We are always open to discussions of alternatives.

Quatronia alerted us to a Holken at the eastern end of the arm between us and Mavericks. Our settlement on this arm has been under constant barb attack, so we have not been able to fully scout this arm. We are even uncertain of the location of the Mavericks city. The only unit we have nearby is a wounded archer, which is far enough away that it is doubtful it could prevent the Merlot unit from contacting Mavericks, and is likely to be ineffective. If the Holken takes an indirect route (i.e. it heads north) we could intercept it with an axeman.

Sincerely,

Trystero, Team Sirius

From Quatronia to us:
Sent: Sunday, 29th August, 05:26 (GMT)
Quatronia would like to buy your workboat for 40 gold. Is Sirius interested in selling it?

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Monday, 30th August, 02:52 (GMT)

Dear Quatronian friends:

We would be willing to sell you our work boat for 40 gold, if you are willing to trade maps once we complete researching Paper. Our primary interest is intelligence regarding Mavericks territory, which we have not scouted yet.

Sincerely,

Trystero, Sirian diplomat

From QUATRONIA to us:
Received: Wednesday, 1st September, 13:35 (GMT)

That sounds great, we would be happy to trade maps. When do you anticipate getting paper?

We also feel you should know that Mavericks sent us an ultimatum, apparently our exploring warrior is scaring them, despite our open borders and non-aggression pact. We have no idea how this situation will be resolved, as the Mavericks are quite unpredictable. We'll keep you apprised of further details, but look for a Maverick DoW.

The money will be wired to your account shortly.

Sincerely,

CharlemagneXLII
Ambassador

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Thursday, 2nd September, 18:44 (GMT)

Dear CharlemagneXLII and friends in The Continuum,

We thank you for your cash gift, and hope you can make good use of our work boat Voyager. We anticipate completing our research of Paper in 4 turns (turn 89), and will offer you a map trade as soon as we are able.

Thanks also for the information regarding Mavericks. We have had no contact with them since we declined their trade offers. We should be encountering their culture on the land mass between our home islands shortly, however. We will likewise keep you appraised of developments on that front.

Regards,

Trystero, Sirian diplomat

From us to ETTA:
Sent: Sunday, 12th September, 22:23 (GMT)

Fellow ETTA members,

We have completed our research of Paper, and have distributed it to the ETTA. We think it would be the best use of our research capabilities if we work on Astronomy as soon as Optics is available. We will need to accumulate some gold to do so, and are planning to put minimal beakers into Philosophy while we wait for Optics.

We would like to know if the rest of the ETTA agrees with this course of action, and what the others were planning to research.

Regards,

Trystero, Team Sirius diplomat

From QUATRONIA to the ETTA:
Received: Thursday, 16th September, 16:17 (GMT) via PM

The AMAZON will complete Construction next turn. We will be teching Feudalism next. We agree with Sirius plan to tech Astronomy.

On the war front... We currently have several Pyrgomache destroying improvements near the coastal Merlot City, "the circus".

Peace and long life friends,

Sommerswerd, Zenobian Captain

Sommerswerd,

You guys will be teching Feudalism? I remember that CDZ said they would be teching Feudalism after Machinery. But then instead of doing that they seem to have gone Aesthetics-> Literature. :confused: Could all the teams clarify their tech plans so we are all on the same page?

Here is my understanding so far:

Quatronia: Drama (2 turns)-> Music (6 Turns)
Sirius: Astronomy
Amazons: Construction-> ?
CDZ: ?

-Cav

From QUATRONIA to the ETTA:
Received, Thursday, 15th September, 00:44 (GMT)
(Note that this precedes the message in post #19)


To our fellow alliance members:
Quatronia agrees with Sirius' choice of researching astronomy. We will be researching drama shortly, followed by music.

From QUATRONIA to the ETTA:
Received, Saturday, 25th August, 00:59 (GMT)

Greeting to our allies, the members of the ETTT,

Quatronia would like to thank Amazon for their efforts to solve the problems our alliance is facing, will work together with our allies to ensure our efforts remain united against our enemies. However, it appears that the integrity of the Continuum has come under question. Quatronia feels the need to clarify a number of misrepresentations in CDZ's letter, so that we can move forward.

However Quatronia decided to aggressively settle next to Spamville with the cities of Resonance and Asymptote. The usefulness of either of these cities apart from culturally crowding Spamville is marginal at best. Quatronia specifically ignored settling better land that was closer to them, clearly instigating the current situation between two teams that should be behaving as allies, by settling extremely aggressively towards one of our cities.
The Continuum disagrees with CDZ's assessment of our cities, Resonance & Asymptote. They are not aggressive settlements nor are they 'marginally useful' and only serve to crowd Spamville. Asymptote was originally known as 'Cape City' to the Continuum. It's settlement has been planned for centuries. It grants our empire with two resources within its borders. Resonance's was originally planned further south, but due to production priorities we were unable to settle it prior to Spamville and had to move it north, though it is still a fine city spot. In fact it has the highest population on the peninsula. The Continuum can provide records of these plans dating back to 1920BC (Turn 52). This is all prior to CDZ settling Spamville in 1560BC (Turn 61). We apologize if you saw these moves as aggressive, it is unfortunate that you did not send us any messages to inform us of that.


Now it is important to note that up to this point at no time had Quatronia sought to discuss the settlement of our common peninsula... So in response to their aggressive settling against Spamville we settled ereh rO, Quatronia then settled Pulsar Plateau.
Admittedly, The Continuum had not yet discussed these matters with CDZ, however we were in the process of writing a message regarding splitting the petal. It was at this point CDZ settled ereh rO. Quatronia remains shocked at this move. As you put it yourselves, ereh rO is a 'response', a retaliation to Quatronia's expansion. It's a clear encroachment on our territory as it is quite a distance from the CDZ capital. I would imagine that the citizens of ereh rO have asked at least once to join the The Continuum because when they look across the sea, they see our capital, Continuum! We believe CDZ would be similarly confused should Quatronia have settled "Or here" first. A cheap, productive city in your first-ring location, snatched up by a greedy ally? Of course this would be cause for strife.

...nor did they ever express disappointment at not having the stone. They never asked if we would be willing to come to any arrangements with regards to trading the stone to them. All of these actions which one would expect from an ally were never explored by them.
On this point The Continuum feels there is some agreement. We never once mentioned stone, nor does The Continuum require it. We aren't sure why this was included in the original- hopefully it wasn't outside speculation added in. Quatronia does not need the stone, though we would be open to perhaps borrowing it one day for Moai in a fair exchange.


It was only sometime after this that they came to us and ridiculously demanded we exchanged ereh rO for a settler they would gift us in return...
Quatronia rejects the accusation that we 'Demanded' an exchange. We offered to trade a city for a city- ereh rO for a settler. The Continuum felt it would be a fair way to resolve the situation. Surely if this was ridiculous, we would get a counteroffer? CDZ's reply was hardly friendly, more a dismissal, nor did it contain any hint of a counteroffer.


...because ereh Or was "in their sphere of influence", whilst grossly overlooking the fact that the first city they settled on the peninsula was "in CDZ's sphere of influence". This we found inadequate compensation for our city so they went ahead and settled Cygous.
Clearly our definition of 'sphere of influence' differs. Both Resonance and Asymptote are not in CDZ's sphere of influence. Cygnus clearly is, but neither our first nor our second cities.

And now there is the further matter of researching Music, which Quatronia decided to research after we announced we are doing it.
Quatronia does not agree with your judgement. We sent a message to the ETTT announcing we were researching music. Only then did CDZ come forth and state they were doing the same. The previous official message regarding research had CDZ researching Feudalism. The Continuum doesn't recall when the secrets of Feudalism were discovered.


When looking back through the event from the beginning we believe it is clear that it was never Quatronia’s intention to negotiate or find some agreement, their intention was to take whatever they could, however they could. Overall this can only be viewed as appalling behaviour towards a nation that is its ally. If a solution is to be found then it must take into account Quatronia’s role in instigating and the exacerbating the problem we have on our hands today.
Quatronia wants to find agreement and compromise. It is CDZ who decided to disregard an ally's territory and settle. It is CDZ who never announced their tech path, and only mentioned music after we did. CDZ accuses Quatronia of "crimes" that only CDZ itself has committed.

We have attached several screenshots showing the finances of all the teams over the last few turns. Could CDZ please explain the reason for their sudden (mid-turn) gold increase, and Merlot's decrease in gold?

Now that we have cleared up any misconceptions, let us get back on the path to cooperation and M&M devouring. Since actions speak louder than words, Quatronia will use the Great Artist to bulb, which will benefit the whole ETTT, and make up for lost beakers. As for the Mavericks, we will declare war on them when our non-aggression pact ends, in a couple turns. If CDZ comes under threat from them, before or after that time, we will not hesitate to come to your defense, so please let us know if you have any Maverick problems. We know they have amassed an army, we're just not sure where it is- so Amazon be on the lookout too, with your central city.

The Continuum wishes to clarify to our allies that we value the mutual agreements enshrined in the ETTT. Quatronia will always act in the best interests of her people. Let us move beyond this finger pointing and get the ETTT back on track. Let us focus on the common goal; to rid the world of both the Mavericks and Merlot. Glory to CDZ. Glory to the Amazons, Glory to Sirius.

Glory to the ETTT!

-The Continuum

From Quatronia to the ETTT:
Recieved Tuesday, 28th August, 03:16 (GMT)

To our fellow ETTT members,

Quatronia agrees to hold off on our plans to further settle the peninsula designated as 'Hoag.' We will gladly suspend our expansion for the time being if this will help strengthen the ETTT and allow us to constructively resolve our recent differences. However, the Continuum can not continue with these negotiations until we've had full disclosure regarding CDZ's financier(s).

Respectfully,

Team Quatronia

From us to Amazon and Quatronia:
Sent Monday, November 22nd, 09:45(GMT)

Greetings fellow allies

It has come to our attention that both Amazon and Quatronia are currently researching Fuedalism. Something should be done about this as soon as possible. It also highlights some poor communication within the ETTT, for which I am willing to share responsibility.

I would normally want to advise here who has been researched it further already, and what we ourselves are currently researching, but I don't currently know either of these things myself personally, and find it most important to pass on the more critical piece of information first.

Irgy, on behalf of Team Sirius

From Quatronia to us, Amazon, and CDZ:
Sent Saturday, November 27th, 20:34 (GMT)

Dear our ETTT Allies:

First, the technology situation. Irgy of Sirius brought it to our attention that Amazon and Quatronia were both researching Feudalism, but we have not actually made any progress on it and we have switched to Printing Press for now. What is everyone else researching?

We have recently been stockpiling gold, as you have no doubt noticed, and we have used this to upgrade our recently launched invasion force. We have resumed research as mentioned previously, and our upcoming Golden Age will increase our research times. The cost of building our invasion force will be made up for by the destruction we will wreck upon the Maverick lands.

To our friends the Amazons, we regret to inform you that our auxiliary peninsular defenders are unable to come to your assistance quickly enough, as there are no roads in the jungle, but our strike should accomplish what you asked. We will defend our shared peninsula against any M&M attack.Good luck in defending the centre of the star, we will do our best to use this opportunity to bring down the Mavericks.

Sincerely,
CharlemagneXLII
Quatronia

From Quatronia to us:
Received: Friday, December 3rd, via PM

Hi,

We were wondering if you guys could possibly loan us your stone for just this turn? We just finished a whip and would like to put the overflow into Moai if possible. So anyways, if you can hook us up that would be awesome but if not no worries.

Sincerely,

Cav
Team Quatronia

From us to QUATRONIA:
Sent: Sunday, January 23rd, 04:33 (GMT)

Quatronian allies:

Per your request, we have offered you (or soon will) stone in-game. We'd would like you to know that we will need it relatively soon ourselves, however, so we'd like to know how many turns you think you will need it. Our current understanding is one turn. Is that correct?

Also, we apologize, but we can't keep track of who is researching what. Our previous correspondences suggested you were researching Printing Press. We are currently researching Nationalism. We would like to suggest to the ETTA as a whole that all teams focus on research so that we can build a significant tech advantage over Mavericks/Merlot. What are your feelings about such a proposal?

Regards,

Trystero, Sirian diplomat

From Quat to Us:

Jan 25, 2011, 12:20 AM

Greetings guys,

I just got your diplo message in our gmail account and have replied back to you regarding stone and tech.

In my reply you will read how we are also researching Nationalism... :(

Anyways, I thought I would forward the last tech message we were working off as it might explain how this happened. We thought you guys were doing Printing Press, so after we finished Drama we started Nationalism. The bottom line is it would probably be good to get this tech thing figured out so we don't continue all of this overlap.

-Cav

Greetings to all ETTT Allies:

Congrats are in order for the recent successes against the despicable M&M enemies. We are heartened that our allies are turning the tide on Starland as well as on the home islands of the M&Ms. We give thanks to Nike, Goddess of victory, and pray that you continue make war, taking the lands of M&M and restoring the rightful property of the ETTT. We will continue to work towards this goal just as you are doing the same. Keep up the good work, we look forward to the fast-approaching end of M&M menace.

On the tech front, we have completed the bulk of our needed upgrades with the much appreciated help of our allies, and we have returned our efforts toward pursuing new technologies for the mutual benefit of the ETTT. We will have Feudalism in approximately 2 turns, immediately after which, we will begin teching Guilds. As the M&Ms do not yet have Engineering, we are hopeful that armoured mounted AMAZON warriors will assist in finally crushing them once and for all.

It is our understanding that Sirius is researching Printing Press, and we recall that Quatronia has beakers invested into Drama, but we are unsure what our other allies tech plans are. Please share this information at your earliest convenience, so that we may continue to avoid duplicate research.

Sommerswerd, Zenobian Captain

From Quatronia to us:
Sent January 25 2011, 4:16am GMT

Dear Team Sirius:

Thanks for the gift of stone again, we do appreciate it! We did a whip this turn and we are hoping to keep the stone through all of next turn so we can put the overflow from this whip in Moai. After that we wouldn't need it anymore. Would this work for you guys?

Also, feel free to ask us for resources if you ever need anything. We have silver available right now if you need any.

Regarding tech: If seems we have our ETTT wires all crossed up again :( We are two turns away from completing Nationalism and thought another ETTT member was doing Printing Press...

We heartily agree with you about emphasizing tech and we've been running binary researching now instead of stockpiling for more upgrades. Merlot/Mavs have beelined Guilds and have access to knights now. So it really makes sense to get ahead of them tech wise instead of attacking them now with like or even inferior units.

Cav Scout
Team Quatronia

From Quatronia to the ETTA:
Recieved 2 February 2011 at 22:40 (GMT)

To our ETTT partners:

Team Quatronia agrees that we have let our collective research slip a bit against Mav/Merlot. We have decided to focus on research to gain an true advantage against our enemies instead of duking it out with like units. We are currently doing binary research and should have Printing Press in around 4 turns. After that we are happy to persue whatever tech is most beneficial to the alliance (suggestions welcome). The most important thing is to prevent overlap again!

Cav Scout
Team Quatronia

From Amazon to ETT
Date: 02-10-11


Hello Allies,

Just a quick note that we stole Guilds and Gunpowder successfully, and and are ready to gift these tech to you.

Also, we are teching Banking next.

-- Sommerswerd the Zenobian

From Quatronia to the ETTA:
Received 13 February 2011 at 04:28 (GMT)

Team Quatronia is indeed going after Chemistry and we will have it in ~6 turns (unless there is another tech that would be more helpful for the alliance to go after right now).

-Cav

Dear ETTA members:

A quick update to confirm our research plans. We have finished Constitution and we see Quatronia has completed Printing Press, while Amazon has obtained Guilds and Gunpowder from Merlot, and CDZ is working on Military Tradition.

It is our understanding that Quatronia will now research Chemistry while Amazon gets Banking. We cannot begin Replaceable Parts until Banking is available, so we will save cash to research to Rifling without delay after we obtain Banking.

Is our understanding of the current situation correct? How long does Amazon anticipate it will be before Banking is complete?

Many thanks,

Trystero, Team Sirius

From Quatronia to the ETTA:
Received 28 February 2011 at 16:43 (GMT)

Quatronia is researching Steel.

From us to the ETTA:
Sent 28 February 2011 at 17:45 (GMT)

Since Amazon has completed Banking, Sirius is now researching Replaceable Parts.

From Quatronia to the ETTT:
Received 24 March 2011 at 20:41 (GMT)

Quatronia has been working on Railroad since finishing Steel. We don't have very many beakers into it yet though and can change to something else if needed.

From us to Quatronia:
Sent Monday 28th March, 09:03(GMT)

Greetings Quatronia,

Soon comes the time to finish Maverick’s fate, with just there Island left to conquer soon our two armies will converge and deliver the Mavericks into oblivion. However we wish to coordinate the conquest of the last Maverick cities, to reduce losses and avoid city capture conflicts. We wish to avoid the mistakes of the past and make a glorious future destroying the foul Mavericks.

We wish to discuss which cities to conquer; We were considering holding back on taking the Pyramids city Injinya, in exchange for your letting us take our time to conquer Iron city and Gold city. What do our comrades the Quatronia think?

Sincerely,
Sirian

From Quatronia to the ETTT:
Received 29 March 2011 at 20:50 (GMT)

Hmmmm, Quatronia has been working railroads also (see out last post above). CDZ, do you want us to switch to something else now and loose the beakers we put in?

From Quat to US
March 6, 2011 10:35pm


Ok, so it looks like you guys just attacked us out of the blue, sunk a frigate and then offered a cease fire with an apology. Did you all get your wires crossed or something?

I'm not quite sure what to make of what is going on so I declined the cease fire and offered the 10 turn peace treaty instead.

This whole thing is a bit disappointing considering Merlot is still in the game and we were waiting to hear what you guys had to say about the next stage of the game. We obviously can't win but that doesn't mean we still don't have goals.

Dave has told us we can't move until the 2nd half of the turn, so if you guys want to reset things let me know before then. We would want to return to the status quo open borders, resources etc. and also get some compensation for the frigate.

-Cav

Just sent the email to Q:

Temporary peace proposal
Hello,
We might have cause you a bit of confusion as our "Sorry guys" line right before the attack was ment as a war declaration, not as an apology/cease fire.
We now understand that we should had PM a couple of lines or at least made the purpose clearer.

After your well thought strategy we're offering a 10 turn peace deal scheme renewable only by active bilateral communication, if you're still willing. The reason for our aparent contradiction in actions is because we have been debating the issue and the process has been too slow.

Alltriia, on behalf of Team Sirius.