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RB Wrote:Tatu,
I've been getting screenshots of diplo window messages from your team over the last couple days. In the future, would you mind passing those onto our official email as well? Only reason I ask is that I know diplo window chat can be flaky sometimes, and we don't want to miss an important message from you guys.
On the gems front, we're going to hang onto the gems for now. We don't need health, and we'll have our own source of furs hooked up pretty soon, so we're going to hang onto it for now in case something opens up elsewhere. If we can find another way to make a deal we would of course consider it, but for now we will have to decline. Our concern right now is trying not to make it too obvious that we are working together. The German team for example has tried to recruit us to help against your team. We've declined and claimed neutrality, but if we're suddenly gifting you resources it will be extremely obvious to them that we're working together. It would be much better if we could spring a nasty surprise on them! We gifted the missionaries because that kind of aid easily goes undetected, but I hope you can understand our hesitancy to publicly show our alliance prior to the war.
By any chance, do you have any marble near your borders that you could settle? That's one particular resource we'd really like to get our hands on, so if you have some near your borders we would happily trade for that.
Thanks,
scooter - Team RB