Niccolò Machiavelli's Thread

[darrelljs]

That would be super .

Darrell

[plako]

Sent this to Tasunke:

I've discussed with the my team and extending the NAP to T160 is ok to us. Otherwise deal would remain the same i.e. border deal + no ROP. Do we've a deal?

[zakalwe]

Unless you've canceled it, they still have our marble. For more than 10 turns now. We can let them have it for a few more turns if they want it, as a carrot for the NAP extension.

[plako]

I canceled it right after 10T. I'm not sure Tasunke has even noticed that it is missing .

Got this response when I poked him through gmail chat, but wasn't around when he responded:

hello
I saw the e-mail ... will wait a few days to see if Ellimist and Sian have anything to say about it
Sounds pretty good though
alright I gtg
talk to ya later

[plako]

chat with HAK.

me: just a quickie. Gillette has Machinery
have you got a deal

HAK: Yeah, I know. I can see their research. Last turn I saw that they were about to get it.

me: ok
we got alpha so see that way

HAK: ah, kewl.
we sent them a reply to their last message to us 2 days ago. They haven't replied yet to agree to the nap. But in their first reply they did say that they were interested in extending the NAP.

me: ok

HAK: So I'm expecting them to agree. They had simply wanted to know if we had any ideas for stopping you guys from ruling the world before they officially agreed to the NAP. :P

me: ok . Ty for letting me know.

HAK: I left my reply pretty generic without any specifics. Simply stating that I agree that the Trolls do need to be stopped fro ruling the world....but then again I don't want them to rule the world either. I want us to rule the world. LOL
after all, we all want ourselves to rule the world.

me: Sure that is the goal. Normal diplomacy at this point of the game

HAK: At some point in time, I suppose just about every NAP simply needs to expire. I've never made it this far in an RB game, so don't know what the general rule of thumb is that you guys all try to follow.

Alongside with this development both Gillette and TEAM are directing probably all thier EP points towards us. Getting few Courthouses up would be good idea.

[plako]

Had a chat with Tasunke. He writes a lot and asks questions. Unless you really want I won't put it here. Main point is that he is still waiting confirmation from Sian+Ellimist that seem to have vanished. Not sure, if this is a real reason, but this is his explanation. Nevertheless he has signed NAP with 3M (also HAK confirmed this).

[zakalwe]

I guess we should talk to the pirates, and see if they have a NAP with TEAM. Say that we should coordinate our deals... same spiel that we used with M3 vs. Gillette.

Lewwyn said he only had one NAP, so if the pirates haven't got one very recently, they could be the target of TEAM's aggression.

[plako]

Sent this to thestick:

Long time no discussion. I noticed that TEAM adopted Vassalage and got a bit worried you might end up being their target. We're discussing about NAP extension with them and would really like to know your view on things.

Since I suspect your team email might not be closely followed I decided to send Private message. Please let me know your preferred communication method.

In general I'm not sure we want to look too helpful in case they'll get hammered by TEAM and possibly 3M. Also 3M got a little power increase last turn and I did see 1 cat on their closest city to us (probably just finished).

[plako]

Got this from Pirates

Thank you for your concern. TEAM/Tasunke is negotiating an NAP with us at the moment, so we don't think we have much to fear, barring a sneak attack. We'd offer an NAP, but we don't share much of a border.

We would prefer communicating through our team email.

Looks a lot like we won't get new NAPs easy. Focus is on us now. Might be better this way. If NAPs would continue for "eternity", I've no doubts that we would easily sail to win. This gives us new challenges and especially Gillette border is extremely nice for us to do some damage in case they don't want to continue their NAP.

[novice]

Can we ask a neighbour where our iron is?