Sir Lanzelot of the Knights,
We do not want to be impolite, but we do not understand, why you say "you dealt with them, but not with us?" We are not in the position and do not have the information to rule, who broke some deal, or treaty and who didn't, Anarchie was a partner in a deal that was created a long time ago and planned long term. And other than that, you can be sure that we didn't support them directly in their war against you. We have no hard feelings towards you, but also we had no hard feelings against Anarchie.
Regarding The Village, we just can say that we got an offer to take over all of Anarchies' settlements but declined that, as we were sure about your feelings regarding such a shift of territory.
And finally we can tell you that we ARE interested in a deal regarding The Village. As you rejected our inquiry for a colony - with a reasonable argument - we ask you to accept a 20 turn delivery of insence in exchange for The Village. The town already has a courthouse built, which slightly improves the vallue for you.
What do you think?
With peacefull Greetings
Calis of the Flock
Calis diplo has grown from mediocre to pretty bad. i suspect it dawns on them that their position is deteriorating, while they have different opinions on how to move on.
this could be the pattern for a reply:
dear calis,
it does not matter at all whose fault it was, and we find it strange you bring that up when we did not. never mind. but it is a fact that you gave techs and money to the Anarchie, who were our enemy. that they backstabbed us in the middle of a PD is a matter of fact, and SO MUCH you actually do know, but this does not matter.
the Anarchie is gone, and what does matter is what the remaining 3 civilizations make out of this situation. our past was tense, that is a fact. the future is yet unwritten.
however, your "offer" obviously lacks a smiley. you cannot be seriously proposing a "lux for crap town" deal. this would bring you about 50 gpt [whatever the number could be] and us about 3gpt. just to put it plain, this is not going to happen, and we do not really appreciate if we are offered merely a chance to prove totally stupid.
your other decision regarding settlements on our continent was wise and may foster the hope that relations of our nations will improve. also reading between the lines of your former post that you plan to respect the souvereignity of our continent was perceived positively. to this regard, it would be appreciated if you would just hand over the Village to us - accepted and outside of any deals. if you were in our situation, you would surely consider any settlement of the other continent on your own as hostile in tendency, and it is hard to see anything else in it. (whether you took one town or ten in "that deal", it is quite obvious that the decision was based on the possibility or impossibility of defense plus to create alternatives to a war scenario - here we go: let us try that.) the benefit of that town is minimal for you and minimal for us, so this should not be too hard a decision.
for everything else, especially tech deals even planning as far into the future as for your free IA tech, we would wait for your suggestions. (btw, if we want to talk seriously, it surely is beneficial if we manage to do so in shorter periods than 2 weeks.)
of course, we could not offer tech-for-tech deals, as we only were able to build markets until now, and no libs. but it is more efficient if one party makes the money and the other one creates the beakers, with the multipliers respectively, anyway.
Regards,
knights
i just wrote what came to my mind, no double-checking, no double-thinking.
t_x