Dear Saber Friends,
First of all, let me offer the sincere apology of The Council for the unbalanced nature of our previous proposal. This may sound contrived, but in all the hectic activity of trying to put a proposal together, it was a legitimate mistake on our part to try to count beakers we weren't actually going to be putting out. You were absolutely right to reject our initial distribution as unfair.
We believe we've got a much better start this time. Here's what we're thinking:
II. Technology Plan – Version 2
- Team Saber and The Council agree to cooperate to get into the Modern Era as rapidly as possible.
- Both teams agree to not execute a "slow burn" in getting technologies slower in favor of stockpiling gold, unless explicitly approved by the other team.
- Both teams pledge to do their level best to not undermine the alliance in rapid advancement of knowledge.
- The following Technology Balance agreement may only be modified by joint agreement of the teams.
Technology Balance
Team SABER
- Military Tradition (1920)
- Medicine (3000)
- Scientific Method (3000)
- Refining (4800)
- Replaceable Parts (4200)
- Mass Production (4200)
- Amphibious War (3600)
- Atomic Theory (ToE)
- Electronics (ToE) [Council will do if ToE is missed]
Team Saber Total Beakers = 24,720
The Council
- Nationalism (bonus)
- Electricity (trade)
- Industrialization (3600)
- Corporation (3000)
- Steel (4200)
- Combustion (4800)
- Flight (5400)
- Motorized Transport (4200)
- Sanitation (2700)
Council Total Beakers = 27,900
* Then exchange Modern Age bonus techs without regard to beaker value
In addition, it's our understanding that Team Saber will require around 1,000 gold for rushing the necessary infrastructure to get the ToE and Scientific Method in time.
The Council therefore agrees to pay half of that amount -
500 gold (as rapidly as realistically possible) - to help defray this cost and give Team Saber a leg up on rapid industrialization.
Note: our initial estimates show that we could also possibly get the ToE done in 13 turns (turn 173) but our gold costs would be higher… about 1200. In the spirit of "turn-about-is-fair-play," we'd be willing to take on the burden of building the ToE if you send us half of whatever our gold costs turn out to be. However, we still think it would be best for you to go after the ToE, because you'd apparently be more efficient, The Council would be able to avoid getting Medicine and Scientific Method a couple turns longer, which would give us more latitude in delaying FREE, and also help to keep the research costs on those techs as high as possible for FREE.
The above section would simply replace the relevant parts of Article II in the draft SCIAA agreement we sent earlier.
Again, we apologize for the egregious error in our first draft proposal.
We hope this is far more palatable to your team.
Let us know as soon as possible!
Your Friends (and still hopeful Allies)
General_W, speaking with the voice of The Council
