[Spoilers] Fintourist and Old Harry have nothing to see here

[Fintourist]

Hasn't suttree played yet?

Couldn't sleep...

Anyways, suttree finally played.. Before coming to that I declined this:



Suttree situation:

When I logged in I was pretty sure that I'm going to find that 35+ unit stack of suttree inside our borders, but instead we got good news!!



Happily accepted! Either this is an evil plan and he is trying to confuse us or there are good things happening..

Ideas for reaction:

1. Offer OBs (that does not bring anybody any gold, but we could put a unit or two inside his borders and keep an eye on his stack
2. Offer copper-to-copper trade (both to signal friendship and give something to think for mackoti. Downside is that if suttree really would really be going after mackoti that might be a warning)
3. Declare and offer peace (only thing that really gives us peace, makes it also clear to mackoti that we have all our units ready for him if he tries something cheeky with Nibru. Downside is that it signals lack of trust if suttree is really trying to be friendly)
4. Offer a gift back? 10g + health resource? (just to signal friendship) ((offer something more generous to really make him our friend and make him attack mackoti?))
5. Combo of aforementioned things
6. Something else?

What do you really believe that is going in suttree's head? Is he checked out and just wants to outlast some other teams? Is he trying to apologize? Does he really have ambitions into some other direction and wants a peaceful border (I'm pretty sure he could raze mackoti's size 15 capital if he wants to)? How could we co-operate with him so that it causes most problems to mackoti?

In other news...WilliamLP cancelled his 2gpt payment to us. He does not have OBs with anyone we know at the moment so I think we could keep demanding money from him. Only reasons not to demand would be:
1. We want to be nice to him in the hope that he keeps sending marble to us also when we actually need it
2. We want to make him stronger so that when Ichabod is finished with slowcheetah, William can last a little longer. (Downside is that if WilliamLP looks strong and we look busy at other fronts Ichabod might be interested on our island instead)

I'm leaning towards demanding cash, because it's probable that our only dealings with WilliamLP will be business-related during the whole game. But you know me..

Btw, sorry Harry that I keep bugging you in gchat.



There are many nice posts in this thread that I haven't reacted yet! I will tomorrow! Now it's 2.30 AM and maybe I can get some sleep..