14-03-2004 04:53									#1
	700 AD Orders Support Apolyton

Urgent Business

Don't forget to send the wines to Vox!!!




Some info from the multiple chats I had on thursday (btw, I think I broke a record for most simultaneous chats: I was chatting with ND in private, with GS in private, with Lego in private, with GS-ND in another room and with ND-Lego in another.)

Summary:

- Since we cannot get ToE or Hoovers we are going trick GS into getting ND to send us gold so they can beat Lego to these wonders while we get their 2 free techs from ToE's for free also. The Imperial City pre-build is apparently helpful at scaring others...

- ND is giving us 100gpt independently of what we're fooling GS into. I.e., we are hardballing GS to give us 2 techs for something that ND is going to give us anyway... We get Medicine in 5 turns (down from 8)

- Lego wants Sistines and thinks we are going for Women's Suffrage. They agreed to trade Medicince for Industrialization, and also asked us that they are willing to "delay" finishing Sistines so we can get Women's Suffrage. I am rather mixed in this issue, we can definitely screw Lego and get Sistine's, of course, the consequences of that would be rather severe...

- ND has agreed to hand us Dar-el-Killam as soon as we give them 3 workers (7 mountains + 3 workers). 3 workers will be in Imperial City in exactly 2 turns so we can trade them to ND. After that we will get DEK on 730 AD (3 turns from now). THe last 2 cities: Stonedina and Mavdad will be handed down when we finish the mines. They ultimately agreed to leave the "debt" at 22 mines/workers which is what I had been pushing for.


non-chat related:

- we finished 4 libraries last turn and dropped Medicine from 9 turns to 8 turns (5 now with the extra ND cash).