sirdanilot
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Well, maybe we should send it together with a reply to the letter free will most likely send soon (in reply to our proposal), instead of sending it separately.
Dear FREE,
On turn 94, The Council discovered Polytheism and left the Ancient Age. As our free tech we received Engineering!
Assuming that we will reach a fair deal on Polytheism, we have sent this tech to you, with accept. You should receive it when you get the next save. As expected we were not able to send you Engineering yet, we will do that next turn.
We kindly request that you send us your free tech with accept, so that we can start researching in the Middle Ages on the next turn. In anticipation of a new tech alliance we will start on the bottom part, that is, either Feudalism, or (if you get Feudalism for free) Invention.
Best wishes,
The Council
Ok, General_W, you're correct and I'm fine with waiting for their reply on this.
I have sent the note below to inform FREE of the age change and the tech exchanges. I hope everyone is ok with this.
Title: The dawn of a new age!
EDIT: do we need to send a quick note to FREE and SABER about Zeus? Our peaceful intentions, etc?
Greetings to our Middle Aged Friends in The Council,
We are delighted that you have made the jump to light-speed, er, the Middle Ages. Wonderous new things exist to be learned and enjoyed. We will follow in your footsteps this turn and, if the Great Meleet is kind, we won't learn anything of Engineering!
Time will tell, but whatever we learn we will send in trade and inform you by email.
And congratulations on building the Statue of Zeus inThe Silothe city now known as The Admiralty.
Our current ambassador to you, azzaman333, has stepped down due to real life issues. Taking his place will be Empiremaker. He will pick up where azzaman333 left off and will soon be in touch with you.
Sincerly yours,
Art Parry
aka CommandoBob
Turnplayer of the FREE
Let FREEdom ring,
Let the white dove sing...
Dear FREE allies,
We are eager to welcome you into the middle ages! We await the hopefully good news of what new knowledge you'll bring to the table.
We're sorry to hear about Azzaman333, and we send along our wishes for a speedy resolution of whatever hinders him. In the meantime, we look forward to working with Empiremaker.
Two quick points we'd like to cover…
First of all, we just want to send along our personal assurances that the Statue of Zeus was built for purely defensive reasons, to help safeguard us from a potential Great Lighthouse powered attack by the Mounted Warriors of BABE. We were actually planning on building the Great Lighthouse ourselves, and were two turns away when we heard the sad news that BABE had beaten us.
Secondly, we're eager to hear back from you on our last letter, as we're now entering the Middle Ages, the Bridge part of our proposal may be obsolete before we even get word back from you! Thankfully, we trust you that this won't be a serious issue. However, we are hoping to hear your feedback on the possibility of selling technology to Saber asap, so that we can respond to their last letter.
Please write soon and tell us the will of FREE.
To glory and bright future for both of us,
- General_W, speaking with the voice of the Council
Dear The Council,
I am the new ambassador to your nation. Azzaman expects to be back on
June 15. Until that time, in addition to sending communication to our
usual Team FREE Gmail account, please send it to rm5 AT Qwest DOT net.
Regarding your earlier letter, we would be happy to agree to numbers 1
and 3. For balancing Polytheism, we would like to do extra research
in the Middle Ages to make up, and we can re-evaluate the difference
when we enter the industrial ages.
We are still discussing trading with other civs, but at this time, we
would like to continue the agreement in the original MAAP, and
evaluate trades on a case by case basis.
We would also like to discuss two new points. First, map trading. We
think that this would be good for both of our nations because then one
of us won't have to spend the effort mapping what the other team has
done. We can hammer an exact trade in future letters, but we want to
put this on the table. Second, wonders. In the Middle Ages, there
are many good wonders. Four wonders in particular are strong in this
game, and we would like to reach an agreement giving one team
exclusive rights to each wonder. The five in contention are Sun Tzu,
Leonardo's Workshop, Magellan's Voyage, and Smith's. Because FREE and
The Council are the most advanced Civs, we should be able to pick and
choose wonders. We can discuss which team gets which wonders in the
future.
Again, congratulations on the Statue of Zeus.
Sincerely,
Empiremaker
Interesting that they don't mention Sistine Chapel...
Aigburth is right, missing the science wonders is much more puzzling... but there's no reason not to include them in a deal as well... as I did above. See what they say to that.
When did we crack the map?
When did we crack the map?