RBP3 - [SPOILERS] - Team DIM (Mehmed of HRE)

[meatbalz]

yup, will edit this post with a draft shortly

A4

DIM were pleased to receive your message. Your openness regarding your future plans makes us much more willing to reveal our own thoughts to you and work towards a tighter relationship.

The key short-term sticking point is the NAP; as we said, our primary concern is aggressive settlements. Exchanging screenshots as you suggested is the ideal way to get around it. While we’re willing to go down this path, it goes without saying that the visual map info we exchange stays between our two civs. We’re willing to provide you with a screenshot of everything we’ve explored W of our capital and E of yours. If you’re willing to do the same, we have a deal.

As you're aware our thread’s been very active, but one thing we haven’t discussed much beyond a cursory first analysis is what possible map settings we’re looking at. What are your thoughts on the map? We know from civstats that this is a Shuffle map, but not much else.


If you agree to the screenshot exchange NAP discussions can begin in earnest. Not that it matters that much as we’re also interested in trading tech with you and any trades would come long after the T60 expiry you proposed.

Alphabet would be attractive to us as we’re currently planning on going for either CoL or monarchy. We're also looking to trade for writing in exchange for e.g. monotheism once alphabet is discovered. If we were to come to an agreement over techs, how soon do you think you can get to alpha? We’re kind of struggling to come up with a realistic ETA because we’re yet to build a sandbox so aren’t sure how much the maintenance costs will affect research once we have more than one city.

We believe more counterparties will need to be included as with 16 civs out there, the likely outcome is we'll get 3 or 4 trading blocs forming.

This might be pie in the sky at this stage but what we'd like ideally is to have alphabet, maths, monarchy, and CoL involved in a 4- or 5-player trade; if a tech trading agreement is reached, are there any other techs you would like to see included? And would you be willing to lobby new civs you meet – assuming they don’t have hostile intentions – to join the first round of trades.

More talking

Meatbalz for DIM

less well formatted as i think we're into the talking stage now. suggestions/changes/slaps over the head more than welcome. once we're happy with the message, would either of you guys mind sending it over?

recap:
- more friendly language
- proposal of exchange of screenshots of the land between our capitals
- sound them out about map info
- reveal small amount of info about the map
- reveal large amount of info on our intentions re: our own teching
- reiterate a NAP is contingent on settlement plan
- fish for info re: how severe maintenance will be on this map
- sound them out about setting up a trading bloc
- proposal to bring other civs into our putative trading bloc