AMAZON Diplomacy Discussion

grant2004 said:

I wouldn't give up the barbarian city until we know precisely the locations of their other cities. They've said that they were unable to make a strong push towards Merlot, so I wonder how much land is left on Anjendia to divide up.

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AlphaShard said:

This is strange since I thought they had more cities then us as it was. They can't all be on thier home island.

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Trystero said:

If only one is Anjenida/whatever, it's possible the other 4 are on their island. We could certainly have settled 4 on our home island. If that's the case, I'm not sure why they didn't use them on more contested territory.

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To all of our Friends in the Mighty ETTT Alliance:

We Zenobians hope that our allies are prospering, and we wish to share some important news.



First, our spies have confirmed, that Merlot has indeed made contact with Mavericks. We are not sure when this unfortunate event occurred, but we discovered it at the beginning of this very Year of Our Lady 800.



With this unhappy, albeit inevitable turn of events, a new M&M alliance is no-doubt soon to form. Although we were enjoying the advantage that our enlightened ETTT had been providing, we also relish the opportunity to feast upon the sweet candy-coated hides of our enemies, like so many delightful chocolate confections.

Towards this end, we would like to respond specifically to our friends in the Continuum regarding the recent hostilities with Merlot. While we would prefer that all of our friends remain united in open opposition to the evil Merlot, we can certainly appreciate the logistical difficulties with a restricted turn timer. Therefore, if you wish to press the King of Merlot for peace with his Kingdom, we would bear no grudge against you for that. As is said in our land, “I ain’t mad at cha.” Although, we are curious whether Merlot has actually offered peace, because we were suspecting that this war with Merlot would be a permanent state of affairs, having serious doubts tat the proud Merlot King would ever seek peace with the ETTT.



Additionally, our scout Marian has located Merlot’s copper source, on Marthaton, which they are currently attempting to mine, as well as the city nearby, called “The circus.” At this very moment, we have Pyrgomache, armed with large, broadly bladed weapons en-route to this city. Finally, since the evil, drunken Merlot warriors were the aggressors, we anticipate that their people will become weary with the war, while the Zenobians remain resolute in their righteous quest to avenge the murder of our beloved scout Dora the Explorer… May she rest in peace. Consequently, we will not be seeking any cease fire, or peace treaty with Merlot at this time.



We can confirm that the peninsulas are quite similar, if not identical. On the peninsula with plains at the tip we have discovered copper, incense and cow. On the desert peninsula, between us and the Sirius, we have found ivory, horse, bananas and marble. We have not located any stone yet.

We still have not seen any Maverick or Merlot boats near our waters, but with recent developments, they may prefer to just turn around rather than risk being sunk.

Last, we can confirm that we are pursuing Construction, however, we are in the midst of political and religious upheaval as we have thrown out the Barbarous, Pagan government and replaced them with a strong Bureaucratic government that will keep our Religion Organized. As Christianity was recently discovered in our lands, we have also declared Christianity to be our official State Religion. However, we still believe in a degree of religious freedom, and welcome your Missionaries to our lands. We hope that you will welcome ours as well. News of the Continuum’s mysterious Stonehenge has already resulted in some of our people adopting the Buddhist faith, and we hope this trend of religious diversity continues in the lands of The AMAZON.


Be Well,

Sommerswerd, Zenobian Captain

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Finally, since the evil, drunken Merlot warriors were the aggressors, we anticipate that their people will become weary with the war

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Hello again


Carib

We agree that barbarian cities are worth letting each other know about as soon as possible, were simply slower in getting our message out. We respect that you did indeed ask our opinion before capturing it, I apologise if our response was a little defensive but we wanted to be clear on the matter.

It is good to hear it is filled with only warriors. With the technology for macemen we may then even be able to take this city with a single unit.


Anjennida

While we are certainly willing to consider suggestions such as the one you have made for the settling line, we are not happy with the proposed distribution of land. We place very little value in the desert tip in particular, and while we agree that we can do more with working the seas we hardly consider desert and coastline to be a fair trade for the jungled grasslands in the south. By my count this deal would leave twice as much of the grassland in your territory as ours, and while we agree there are things to compensate for that it still seems like a poor deal. Also, the horses cannot be shared as resources until the discovery of Astronomy, leaving us with limited military options in the meantime.

Another (less important but worth pointing out) weakness of the above division is that for all that it shortens the cultural border on Anjennida, it also creates a new cultural border across the very narrow channel between Anjennida and Bode. We have an excellent city location planned on the coast Bode which would include at least one tile of Anjennida in its BFC, so if that area of Anjennida is part of your land then a new cultural conflict is created across the channel

However, the idea of dividing the land in a way other than vertically is appealing. We would consider options with a different dividing line than the one proposed.

Personally however I still think the best way to tackle this problem is to create a sensible dot-map, and assign cities in a fair way. We would happily make a proposal using such a method ourselves but we still don't know the exact locations of your existing cities, which we would obviously need to account for. The discovery of Paper for drawing maps soon may make this process somewhat easier, but it may be worthwhile resolving it before then.


Religion

We will endeavor to spread Confucianism to your cities as soon as is practical. We also congratulate you on founding Christianity.

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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

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