Indiansmoke
Deity
That is a good idea Sir Caledorn! Please make a seperate thread where we post all communications sent and received, while we keep the discussion here.
Caledorn,
We are very sorry to have kept Indiansmoke waiting. We are hammering out the details and we should have it sent out to you shortly. I will try to get people to wrap it up today, but at the latest we'll have our reply to you tomorrow.
We understand your desire to get our reply quickly. I'll try to speed up the process as much as I can for you guys.
SilentConfusion
Greetings Grant2004, and the entire nation of the Sirian people, from Emperor Indiansmoke I and the people of Merlot!
His Majesty sends his warmest regards to your nation, and wants you to know that the people of Merlot feels honoured to greet your people in friendship!
We are very much looking forward to entering diplomatic negotiations with your nation now that initial contact has been made, and your diplomats will always be welcome to Merlot Island!
To start off with some informational sharing, we would like to divulge the information that our nation is currently located on Merlot Island - a beautiful island where the people of Merlot are currently living happily under the rule of His Majesty. Our ocean explorers have discovered a continent that looks like it has peninsulas and fjords. May we ask what your explorers have found so far?
We are very much looking forward to the next letter from your people - and we may always be contacted at the EMail this missive has been sent from - merlotdip@gmail.com just to make certain.
Sir Caledorn
Imperial Diplomat of Merlot
on behalf of Emperor Indiansmoke I
Indeed...and will continue to be a bit convoluted IMO until all of the teams have been met and engaged. Surely some alliances are already in the making.Diplo is getting complicated...
I think I speak for us all when I say this can't continue. I would try to use misinformation to spread distrust between those involved in the trades.It was a 4 way trade only us and CDZ left out.
I missed the reply from Amazon, just saw it! I was a bit confused as I though we would use the other thread to post only received and send communications, not drafts...and that we would dicuss drafts here.
Anyway, the Amazon letter is just gaining time without saying much.
I think we should reply to them telling them about our resources and our willingness to ally with them and asking them directly if they are willing to enter a tech trading deal (lets inform them that we are on our way to monarchy).
My apologies, Your Majesty. I think I will keep the other thread as clean as possible by including both the letter and the reply in the same post. I realized that would be the most organized way of doing it only after I had already posted the first draft in a separate message though. If you agree with my idea, I will start posting it in the manner I am proposing here from now on. If you would rather have me post the drafts here in the Foyer, however, I will of course do so. Using the method I have done below with direct linking to the posts might be a bit cleaner though. But that's the rather perfectionist organizator in me talking however.
I have done the neccessary modifications to all the drafts in the thread (and sent off the letter to the Sirians). I will work on the CDZ letter too, but I have some other business to attend to first. So either in a few hours, or tomorrow for the letter to CDZ. Please approve/disapprove of the modifications done in the drafts.
Team Amazon - Draft
Team Quatronia - Draft
Team Sirius - Reply Sent
And although tempting, we may want to stray away from the word "alliance", unless we feel we can trust the player and they will be helpful to us. If at one point we decide to attack our ally because it would be strategically good for us, then we of course would be breaking an alliance, and our ally would quickly announce this to the other players, therefore we'd lose confidence with all the players. However, if we come to an "agreement", we aren't officially allied - working closely together, perhaps, but not allies. Then, if the time comes, they don't really have the right to say we broke an alliance, because we never truly made one. (there's the lawyer in me! )
Then we need 2 more alies as I believe a 4vs2 tech alliance will form. However if we were to be on the 2 team side CDZ is the ally we would want to be with!
Why would a 4v2 alliance form? Is there some bad blood here in merlot and CDZ with the others to cause this? Its strange because usually an alliance isnt greater than 50% of the total game size. Or do we just mean a tech trading partnership between them? Either way, i think it wont last forever. Eventually they will dissolve into bitter infighting(i hope!) and then our long term policy of crafting atleast neutral relations and patience will pay off when new alliances form. Hopefully CDZ will see this aswell and be loyal allies\trade partners, i wouldnt want to get backstabbed by berserker armies.