Dear FREE allies,
Thanks for getting back to us so quickly, it's appreciated.
We're liking your MAAP II proposal so far, we're still just tinkering with some ideas to balance out the Polytheism thing. As you know, beakers become relatively less valuable as the game goes on, so we'd rather not wait till the Industrial Era to settle the books.
We have some scary news! The evil empire of BABE just showed up off our coast. Thankfully, it's just a boat with no units. Anyway, per our treaty, we're letting you know.
We've already had a chat with Saber, and they've agreed to not trade construction to anyone else. It turns out, they also know BABE, and so we're going to be delaying the transfer of Construction to them, to hopefully avoid lowering the cost for BABE. (As we're sure you'll agree, we want to delay BABE getting to the Middle Ages for as long as possible!) We will, of course, send you your share of the gold as soon as the transfer takes place.
Some good news is that BABE appears to be three techs away from the Middle Ages… our cooperation has placed us ahead of our rivals!
We'll be writing back soon with our response on the MAAP II trade, but we wanted to pass on this big news right away.
Finally, we've started work on learning Invention, and the "7 year festival to celebrate reaching the new age" (read: anarchy) has begun in our lands.
All the Best,
Your brothers in bluish,
General_W, speaking with the voice of The Council