The Department of Foreign Affairs - Term 1

[Immortal]

Ill volunteer to help, because it seems Skilord has beaten me for the governor position, not that I'm upset about it though. He'll do a fine job

 

[Shaitan]

The position of Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs is now held by Immortal. Immortal is now an official chat presence for the Department of Foreign Affairs. In the even that Shaitan or Benjamin Miller are not attending a turn chat, Immortal is the official voice of the Department.

 

[Shaitan]

This Directive has also been posted to the Presidential thread:

By a narrow margin the people of Phoenatica have decided to NOT ally with Egypt. The Phoenaticans want a small deal with g/t with Egypt to hopefully keep them out of the current conflict (this would be the responsibility of the Trade Department). We will not make peace with Babylon at this point. The general feeling is that we will never pay for peace with Babylon.

General war directive - peace should be sought with all enemy civilizations except America but we will not pay for peace with any at this point.

 

[Immortal]

Hi, sorry I didnt make it to the chat tonight but I was in a major car accident a couple days ago and I was discharged an hour ago from the hospital. Ill try ot make it from now on.

 

[Strider]

Ouch.... How major was it? Hopefully you didn't get your brains screwed up. You tend to be a good source of reliable information and good advice.

 

[Immortal]

Originally posted by Strider
Ouch.... How major was it? Hopefully you didn't get your brains screwed up. You tend to be a good source of reliable information and good advice.

thanks for your concern, my car was wrecked, as well as the guy who rear-ended me. I got whiplash, a lot of cuts and scrapes and I hurt my arm real bad, but it'll all heal.

 

[Cyc]

sorry to hear it, Immortal. Get well soon.

 

[Strider]

Yeah get well soon.

I would send you a get well soon card, but I don't know your address and I don't think singing happy birthday fits to well with the sitution.

 

[Benjamin Miller]

Hey, Immortal, welcome to the foreign affairs ministry, and get well soon.

I've been meaning to attend the past few turn chats, but I've had more homework than ususual, and a lot of other crap to keep me busy.

I hopefully should be able to make some in the near future.

 

[Benjamin Miller]

double post.

 

[disorganizer]

would it make sense to make peace with babylon to destroy their reputation with the other civs?
i believe the others will then come to the peace table very easy since bab broke the pact. and we could deny peace for america to capture their cities (and we could concentrate on this one without having to split our forces!)

 

[Shaitan]

Originally posted by disorganizer
would it make sense to make peace with babylon to destroy their reputation with the other civs?
i believe the others will then come to the peace table very easy since bab broke the pact. and we could deny peace for america to capture their cities (and we could concentrate on this one without having to split our forces!)

Yes, it's a viable strategy but the people were not happy with the price tag. If you feel you can drum up enough support to debate this again I'd be happy to repoll the populace.

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by disorganizer
would it make sense to make peace with babylon to destroy their reputation with the other civs?
i believe the others will then come to the peace table very easy since bab broke the pact. and we could deny peace for america to capture their cities (and we could concentrate on this one without having to split our forces!)

I completely support this idea once we have upgrade all the warriors we intend to upgrade. At this point, I believe we should be willing to spend all of our cash on hand to get peace with the Babylonians. We are making around 25 gold/turn currently, so our treasury will recover pretty quickly, and, like disorganizer said, this would probably make peace treaties with the other civs easier and cheaper.

We only need money right now to upgrade warriors, buy tech and make peace. Assuming we get the Great Library and have upgraded all of our warriors, we have only peace to invest in.

 

[Shaitan]

I've posted a repoll to see the citizen's wishes here.

 

[Shaitan]

My parents are coming down from the Great White North to see our new baby. I'll be pretty much off of the boards Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I leave you in the capable hands of Deputy Benjamin Miller and Undersecretary Immortal.

 

[eyrei]

We need a peace treaty with the yanks ASAP. They should be willing to part with quite a bit, especially if we take Washington in a few turns. I suggest that immediately after our imminent assault on Washington, whether or not we take it, we sign some sort of peace treaty. Instead of being surrounded, we will be able to focus on defending a few cities. We should probably either raise Houston before this, or demand it in negotiations.

 

[Falcon02]

Well, it seems like most people agree with a peace treaty after Washington. But, Honestly I would rather not get Houston in the Negotiations. It's not in the right place.

We already have soldiers nearby ready to take Houston and clear out the Barbs. Houston will auto-raze, and we can settle in the spot we wanted. And this will be without violating our No Razing policy, since we couldn't take it over even if we wanted to.

 

[eyrei]

Originally posted by Falcon02
Well, it seems like most people agree with a peace treaty after Washington. But, Honestly I would rather not get Houston in the Negotiations. It's not in the right place.

We already have soldiers nearby ready to take Houston and clear out the Barbs. Houston will auto-raze, and we can settle in the spot we wanted. And this will be without violating our No Razing policy, since we couldn't take it over even if we wanted to.

Will the attack on Houston commence at about the same time as the attack on Washington? If so, getting it in negotiations is a moot point. We can always disband it with a settler if we get it in negotiations though.

 

[Falcon02]

Yes, we should be able to take Washington and Houston in the same turn. And in fact with us taking two cities in one turn it might help to convince them to come to a peaceful deal.

 

[disorganizer]

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