Niccolò Machiavelli's Thread

[darrelljs]

I have that and never see him online. Maybe he blocked me? Anyway I'll keep an eye open.

Darrell

[zakalwe]

Maybe we should make another diplomatic effort to acquire Losing. We can give them a settler pretty soon, and it's going to take them a long time to reap any kind of benefit from that city. If they lack another source of horses, we can gift them horses once we've settled both of our sources.

I think whatever metagame lesson needed to be taught has been taught already. Neither of us stand any realistic chance of winning.

[plako]

I agree with Zakalwe. Tried to contact Krill, but he didn't respond. Maybe tomorrow. I'm just not sure we're gonna get very equal deal so we better continue from premise that war continues.

[darrelljs]

Strongly recommend we pillage & choke for a few turns before trying to contract them again. If we reach out so soon it will be taken as a sign of weakness.

Darrell

[novice]

Chat with Krill:

me: Hi

krill.krill: Evening

me: Just curious, is TEAM just Lewwyn now?

krill.krill: TEAM has basically been Lewwyn playing the turns and we've been weighing in with advice whenever he asked for it or I thought he was making a mistake
Something happened?

me: well, he couldn't connect so the game's been paused for 24 hours

krill.krill: OK, I'll login and have a look

me: cool

[novice]

Addendum

krill.krill: Must be a bitch building axes instead of granaries.
me: I imagine so

I would have tried to negotiate with him but when he's trying to make me angry I don't think the conditions are right.

I don't understand TEAM's attitude, it should be possible to come to a mutually beneficial deal, since that city is useless to TEAM but valuable to us.

[pling]

I don't understand TEAM's attitude, it should be possible to come to a mutually beneficial deal, since that city is useless to TEAM but valuable to us.

I think we were supposed to roll over & they're pissed that we didn't

[zakalwe]

trying to make me angry

Yeah, he came off as a real jerk with that comment. Maybe that actually was his way of trying to negotiate, though? (Care to translate, Darrell?)

Or maybe they just aren't interested in playing rationally.

[plako]

I managed to piss him off with my greedy suggestion way back. Not forgiving easily I suppose. Also chatting with Lewwyn might be more constructive.

[darrelljs]

pling nailed it. We want peace we need to kill the city and remove the thorn to Krill's pride.

Darrell