donsig
Low level intermediary
@donsig: I don't think FREE is looking at research costs really, or they would have known we had construction already. I would certainly not send them currency right away - there's no reason to fully trust them right now. We can send HBR+Construction.
Good point about construction. But if we're telling them we popped currency then I think we should sent it to them now. Not doing so will only cause more distrust on their part - unless we explain we want to trade currency for poly so as to better control our move into the middle ages.
I don't see why we should mistrust them. They've sent their techs when we asked - them giving us republic right away contributed to our currency pop. I'm not so sure either one of us should have to be asking for techs since we have MAAP in place. That's a point we can cover in MAAP II if there is one. I'm looking forward to this second treaty and think we should try to enter into negotiations now and so both teams should put this behind us.
They may not even have another contact. The question we asked in the loast letter was about exploring as well as contacts. I was really fishing to see if they had any idea about the map we're on. Perhaps they figured out what we figured out long ago and don't want to tip us off. Map info is not covered under MAAP.
I would add the following (the bold line is already in the latest version and is merely emboldened here for reference):
Because Currency was popped, the potential trade with SABER is off the table, and we have just sent a note to Saber telling them this. We are holding off sending currency to you for now as we'd like to discuss in more detail later what our timing will be for moving to the middle ages. For instance we're thinking about a polytheism for currency trade to accomplish this transition. There is time to duscuss this later.