[SPOILERS] Team EggHeads: DMOC and TeddyKGB (Now Lurker-Friendly!)

[DMOC]

Sorry for the delay; I just finished up a brutal complex analysis midterm, and now I have to LaTeX it up, so I'll be up for a while doing so.

In the meantime, I had a little time to think about their proposal:

Official offer from Yuufo via mail.
Something isnt right here:

Treaty proposal :

- NAP until 1 AD
- Open borders
- Care Bears don't settle west of Cheer
- Egg Heads don't settle east of Cornell
- Care Bears build a road on Cornell's cow and 9 from there
- Egg Heads move Warrior to grassland hill for fogbusting. Care Bears will found a city there about T78

Yuufo

Just learned 1AD=T115 on normal.

My official stance is that I am against this proposal. Long story short, I think they benefit from this more than we do.

• They are asking us not to go east of a city that is located 5 tiles from our capital, while they are promising not to go west of a city located 8-9 tiles from their capital. That's quite a difference, and it also means they have essentially unrestricted access to the green lands north of Cheer (I'm assuming that's their city, since we don't appear to have visbility in the city center).
  
• Right now, they are running a paper-thin military (as expected) and with 7 cities, their defenses will be spread out thin. A long NAP thus benefits their style of "spamming settlers" while we build chariots for barbarian protection. I would prefer to keep them honest, which would force them to build more military. If Asterix does the same, then that's all better for us.
  

Here is the kind of message I am thinking about (a draft, so don't send yet):

Dear Care Bears,

Upon review of your proposal, we unfortunately decide to decline it. While the deal has benefits for both of us, it seems clear that your team benefits more from the deal than us. One reason has to do with the respective distances of Cheer and Cornell from our capitals.

That doesn't mean, however, that our nations cannot work together in the near future. In particular, we still are interested in open borders. Furthermore, we can keep one aspect of the proposed treaty: if your worker can road the cows tile between Cornell and Cheer and the tile 9 of that, then we can move our warrior over to the grassland hill to fogbust for your projected city site. After it is founded, we will move that warrior back to Cornell.

We will continue to be in touch with you regarding plans such as possibly resource deals, city settlements, and wonder plans.

Sincerely,
Team EggHeads