Yeah, it does sound like LP's message. (Say, wouldn't it be great to have Team Orgynized as our western neighbor? Then we can communicate with them LP-style, which will get us an ally for sure. 
) Still, I think it accomplishes what we want to do: get some early cooperation and set us on good terms with our eastern neighbor. For now, we can add in this bit saying that we'll put EP on you, but will stop as soon as we get demographics (and will let you do the same to us).Note: I'm not sure if they moved 1 tile away from us or towards us. Judging by the gold, it does seem like they moved away from us (or south), but we don't know for sure.
How about this? Note that we should wait until next turn to send this message. Whoever plays the turn should email the message soon after playing (unless we want to make further changes to it).
Here's the update:
Quote:
Dear Yuufo and Bisons of Team Care Bears:
Greetings! Our exploring scout has come across your land, so hopefully we can start out diplomacy on a positive note. Our team members are Dhalphir, dick76, DMOC, and TeddyKGB, with DMOC and TeddyKGB playing the majority of the turns at the moment. Your team is the first who we have made contact with; out of curiosity, have you found other teams yet?
If your scout hasn't found our borders already, we'll be happy to let you know that we are to your west. Our capitals are about 15 tiles apart, so there's ample room for both of us to grow excellent cities between our capitals. In addition, there's a nice coastline up north of us that might be useful for establishing early trade routes between us.
Meanwhile, since we're neighbors and it looks like we've each got plenty of room to expand, we're hoping to initiate the first steps of what might become a long-term alliance. In particular, we are extremely open to working together with by possibly performing the following tasks: (1) sharing wonder plans to minimize wasted production, (2) sharing gold to help speed up one's tech path or possibly to purchase units from one another, (3) negotiating an acceptable border agreement once we've explored the map in further detail, and (4) possibly combining our armies together to conquer lands for mutual benefits.
Naturally, if there's any agreement between us that you'd like to be confidential, we're happy to honor that request, and we're flexible in other agreements not listed earlier. Our team members plan to honor all agreements we form in this game.
Obviously, these aren't the only things we might do in the future. If you have suggestions, feel free to offer them, as we're fairly flexible. As a sign of our cooperative intentions, we'd like to know if you're interested in a non-aggression pact with us so that neither of us wastes military in a (potential) early war that would no doubt come as good news to the other eight teams. Since it's around turn 20 now, we'd like to offer a non-aggression pact up to and including turn 60, with the possibility for renewing it at any time to any extent as long as we both agree. We can also agree on an espionage clause; how about us putting enough espionage points on each other to see demographics, but nothing more after that?
We look forward to hearing back from you.
Best regards,
DMOC
Team EggHeads
Dhalphir, dick76, DMOC, and TeddyKGB