Greetings SANCTA, and sorry for our delay.
We would be honoured to accept your offer of a larger alliance between our two nations! We have thoroughly discussed committing to a full alliance with you, and think it is the best way to give both of our teams a fighting chance in this game.
A few suggestions we have:
- Full openness regarding all communications with other teams. For example, if one team hints of an upcoming war against someone, we pass that on. If we're looking to secure a tech trade with a third party, we let the other partner know. Basically, we share all information of importance.
- Openness with other information obtained on rival teams. On a related note, we should divide our espionage points such that we can each gather information on one rival team. (For example, we can put all espionage into Cav, and you could put most of yours into Kaz.)
- Free exchange of techs between us, without regard to beaker costs. If one of us requests a tech, the other will provide it instantly. (On the flip side, we should to only ask for what we need from one another. Gifting over too many techs at once may unnecessarily sour relations and future trade opportunities with other nations.)
- Where practical, we agree to help each other out in times of defensive war. (Obviously for the next 50 turns or so we'll still be too isolated from one another to be able to help much in the case of any war declarations.) For offensive wars, we can make a decision at the time whether we want to war together, but neither of us is obliged to join.
- The possibility of MS being included in the alliance should not be completely ruled out, although they'd need to seriously change their team organization (which is unlikely to happen). Of course, we'd need to thoroughly discuss things between ourselves first and come to an agreement before we would ever admit anyone new to the alliance.
- We should probably have some kind of agreement regarding a far future end date for the alliance, just so neither of us is confused. I suggest that the alliance should come up for renegotiation after the defeat of Kazakhstan and Cavaleiros (defeat being when we both agree that they are no longer a threat). Of course, that may never even happen in this game, but I'm just thinking ahead anyway.
Please let us know what you think. We're looking forward to working with you!
Kind regards,
Lord Parkin of Saturn
P.S. Thanks for Sailing - we've offered Alphabet!