Played T95, sent the in-game message to Rome notifying them of our Defensive Pact with Dinosaurs and EggHeads. I let our allies know that I have done this. They should be doing the same this turn.
Chatted with Asterix today and he will not send a message to Rome on our behalf, unless we are willing to bribe Rome to DOW India. He felt that forming a defensive pact is aggressive against Rome and he does not want to get involved, instead preferring to maintain good relations with Rome.
Asterix requested all our gold, to be paid back in full in four turns. In return, he will gift us Spices for free for 10 turns. Now, this isn't a horrible deal, as we probably won't be able to turn on research for 4 turns. Then again, having +1 happy for ten turns doesn't really do much for us, as we'll lose the happy right around the time that our cities would grow large enough to take advantage of it. The offer is only on the table if we gift all our gold this turn. I did not agree to it in-game, but Caledorn, if you want to log in and do so, I wouldn't mind. If you don't want to, we can just stay silent and let the offer expire.
Everything else is going as planned. Our GNP is really embarrassing. Once we finish limping to Currency (I hope in about 10 more turns), then we can turn on Wealth builds everywhere and hopefully turn things around. It might be too late by then, but we'll see...
Chatted with Asterix today and he will not send a message to Rome on our behalf, unless we are willing to bribe Rome to DOW India. He felt that forming a defensive pact is aggressive against Rome and he does not want to get involved, instead preferring to maintain good relations with Rome.
Asterix requested all our gold, to be paid back in full in four turns. In return, he will gift us Spices for free for 10 turns. Now, this isn't a horrible deal, as we probably won't be able to turn on research for 4 turns. Then again, having +1 happy for ten turns doesn't really do much for us, as we'll lose the happy right around the time that our cities would grow large enough to take advantage of it. The offer is only on the table if we gift all our gold this turn. I did not agree to it in-game, but Caledorn, if you want to log in and do so, I wouldn't mind. If you don't want to, we can just stay silent and let the offer expire.
Everything else is going as planned. Our GNP is really embarrassing. Once we finish limping to Currency (I hope in about 10 more turns), then we can turn on Wealth builds everywhere and hopefully turn things around. It might be too late by then, but we'll see...