Diplomatic Thread

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Pirates,

Don't we owe each other screens like four turns ago?

BTW, we met Team Paper Cut last turn.

Reply to this email for now, our main one is being wacky with security nonsense.

TEAM

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Working on it already... Sorry for the delay, but with people on holiday and such... You know..

Thanks for the info and we'll get the screenshot to you asap!
Cheers,
Nakor

[Lewwyn]

Sent to pirates:

Hey guys, here are pictures from last turn, we just met the Trolls to the south. Looks like Gillette is between the AnimalSexers and Trolls. You guys should try to make contact with Trolls or Gillette so that you can start spending EPs that way.

Animal Sex grew to size 3 this turn. Last turn they had a warrior in the city,, but when I ended turn it disappeared so I think it went N some direction. The cap is currently empty. They have 2 workers and 2 warriors. They hit 3 so they weren't building a settler last turn. They may have started this turn.

The pics are hopefully good, clear. I just realized while uploading them that the resource bubbles are 2 tiles South of where they are supposed to be.

Lew

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Quick chat with Nakor:

Bas: Hey GES, has Pindicator send you another screenshot from Pirates?

me: Not to my account. We are having problems with the main one due to security logins from all the world.

Bas: Do you have his gmail to ask him directly?

me: No. Maybe OleDavy and Lewwyn should hook up on chat again soon.

Long story short:

1) We know Gillette and Trolls have known each other for about as long as we have.

2) We have sight on Parkin's capital

3) We are continuing to spend all espionage on Parkin to help you guys

4) We murdered Gillette's scout for fun

Bas: LOL! Don't really know what has been going on at our game, due to vacation.. I'll try to send an update tomorrow. Off to bed now, just wanted to ask about the screenshot. Made another request in our forum. Talk to you later.

me: Thanks, later

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Chat with Scooter of Gillette:

scooter: so... jihad? any particular reason?

me: Is this official communication?

scooter: sure why not?

me: Officially, all I have to say is: Durka, durka, Muhammad, jihad!

scooter: haha

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Chat with Nakor of Pirates:

Bas: Hi there! Did you get screenshots?

me: Let me check if it will let me log in

Bas: Ok. I'll send them directly to you otherwise.

me: No screens in our main account. But I can login, which is good

Bas: send them to you. Got it?

me: Got them. Also, we found Trolls this turn.

Bas: Good job!

me: They are our immediate south neighbor. Would've preferred it be Paper Cut. So on the star shaped map, I think Paper Cut forms the bottom point, south of the other two

Bas: Seems like a solid enough theory. We haven't met anyone else yet besides Parkin and you. And we haven't initiated contact with Parkin and neither have they... interesting development there.

me: They haven't with us either. Which is disappointing to us, because we have been awaiting a 10 paragraph letter to which we could simply respond "TL;DR"

Bas:

Seems like you got a very organized team going on. We're stuggling a bit...struggling

me: I don't know if I would call us organized. We don't talk very much except to plan out how we are going to be diplo dicks to everyone but you. Actually, we will probably make nice with the Trolls. I like Darrell and Novice.

Bas: Yep. They are nice/good players. Just got to get rid of LP first...

me: Yeah, we pretty much swore from moment one that Parkin's win streak comes to an end.

Bas: Yep, that has to happen... but we're not going to quecha rush him...

me: Nah just take land and force him to turn his landgrab to the south

Bas: That's pretty much our plan, I think... means that we need to talk about a border agreement somewhere in the near future so we both don't have to worry about that...

me: Yeah, we are totally on board with that. I think we were just waiting for your screens so that both sides can get an exact idea of what is there. I know Lewwyn took screens for you guys, did you get them?

Bas: Yep, same here. Seems like we got that maped out now. Got Lewwyns screenshots, yes.

me: Well, I gotta get up in about six hours for work, so I am off to bed. But we will work something fair out between us that way we can both start focusing on southward expansion.

Bas: Let's talk at another time. Have to go to work myself. Love different time zones... Have a good night!

me: Have a good day, lol. Later.

[Krill]

From Pirates:

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Chat with Luddite:

Me: You need to reinstall Civ and start playing turns!

Luddite: yeah our turnplayer is bad and davy has been slackingi think we're going to get a new turnplayer though

me: Well, you need someone. The teams are too good in this game and community is too involved to let it become a farce.

Luddite: yeah, we'll figure something out. i really can't be the turnplayer right now though. anyway, at least if we had to miss a turn, this was a relatively harmless turn, i think all we missed was a warrior move

[Krill]

Trolls on 22/8/12

We'll dispense with the usual flowery blah blah; a team of your...temperament has no use for such frivolities. Congrats on the first military victory of the game, what'd they do to piss you off besides just being there?

Darrell

[Gold Ergo Sum]

Sent to Trolls:

Team Trolls,

You seem to have a pretty good handle on us. Unlike Lord Parkin who will probably send you novellas filled with self-congratulatory prattle and not so subtle sycophancy, or 7 & scooter's team, who will likely butter you up with hours of chat logs while they rob you blind, we simply cut out the BS. You want to win and we want to win. And no doubt, at some point, those purposes will be contradictory. But there is no reason why we cannot work together on common purposes.

You have probably heard from Team Paper Cut (since EP suggests you guys are old friends) that we are raving lunatics. We are at war with them for our own reasons. Since you share a border with TPC, perhaps you wouldn't mind giving us some general information on their location and current status. You know, enemy of my enemies and such . . .

Also it appears Parkin's team is building a lot of mines. Given past history, I would expect some wonder-whoring. As a collective group, we should probably make sure he doesn't get to play SimCiv this game.

We are going to keep diplo as short and direct as possible. Most of us are too lazy for intensive Civ strategy talk, let alone useless diplo nonsense. We have been waiting to meet you guys because we thought all along that you would probably be honest enough guys to work with, and because we could live with a Trolls victory if you out played us.

--TEAM