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Zero is offline Zero
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Steal Technology? Put an end to popups!

Do you want to make most of being able to steal technology so that we can supplement on other necessary techs while nose diving on a goal or do you want to get techs from different branch and limit steal tech and supplement thru trade?

If you can steal tech... Not only you may be able to get i cheaper you undercut the opponent's benefit of having been able to have gotten something out of you. Thus you're strengthening yourself at the same time weakening them.

There is a risk with human player though, Im just not sure how they will react.

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We need to play the diplomacy card well here. Humans will be must more responsive to diplomatic decisions. For example, the Glory of War team already starts out with a disadvantage, and Legoland starts with an advantage in that department.

If we make some enemies, then stealing may be acceptable (hopefully we'll find ourselves in a position where we'll be on top anyways). However, until we find ourselves in a supreme world position, we'll have to watch ourselves, and bringing on such an event would hurt our reputation, and might even lead to war (who knows? Human teams won't be predictable).

So basically we have to play diplomacy well. Stealing techs may be a bit too risky until we know getting caught won't matter.

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If we steal from the AI, will the other teams know? Will only the AI not like us after that?

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Only the AI teams will know, but from the looks of things right now, I don't think there will be any AI teams...

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In certain situations it may be OK. But if we get too aggresive with then then other human player may turn on us more than we want them too. There is a fine line between simply playing aggresive and being overagressive

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We need a good foreign relations party. Anything we do, our reputation will be a big factor since humans are not programmed to act a certain way. In many cases they are more easier to forgive or harder to regain trust.

Should we decide to steal tech from a human and we ultimately fail, we need a good social talker who can ease the relations by saying something like "I assure you our country was agst the idea but their was some rotten apples that temporarily mob controlled our govt" or something crafty I can't do.

Any bad decision our government decides to do, we must not leave responsibility to our governement. Publicity is important. We have to shield our governments reputation just as the japanese government protected their emperor's innocence at all cost. Hopefully we don't get caught doing any mischievous acts or even have to resort to such things, but should we be caught. NEVER blame the team! Take the responsibility all to yourself if you have to!

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We need to play the diplomacy card well here. Humans will be must more responsive to diplomatic decisions. For example, the Glory of War team already starts out with a disadvantage, and Legoland starts with an advantage in that department.


Why do they start with a(n) (dis)advantage?

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Their reputation because of their name...

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I concur totally with Trip. Steeling, especially from human players always brings on a war. Face it, why were you steeling if you weren't already in a desparate position? Wars should be made, not suffered. In otherwords, it's infinately better to start a war than to throw off the invader. You also don't want to start one when you're unprepared.

Steeling is a bad idea. I'd rather be neutral or friendly for as long as possible. The Glory of War will go down ASAP in my opinion, followed by the GS, Legoland, if they play like builders will probably be the last target. We, unfortunately will have to face the reality of being an early target in the game, especially in the ancient era. We will have to extremely diplomatically conscious here. We will also have to play more defensive. Fighting only for required luxuries and resources. Naturally, if we can't get 15 good cities, then Libenzraum comes into effect.

I say again, instigation of unnecessary wars in the ancient era will be our downfall, especially against human players.

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That's Lebensraum my friend.

But yes, the point is clear. We must be careful and bide our time until we're ready to dominiate!

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Yes, let cooler heads prevail, and let the enemies destroy each other while we prepare our mechanations of war!

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This is why I emphasize strongly on a good ministry of foreign relations and Department of propaganda. Anyone with good oratory skill up for being an ambassador? We need slick talkers like you that can convince the world we are the next best thing to Mr. Rogers.

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I'm afraid that I'm way too blunt with the way I interact with people. I'd be bound to get us into a war without even knowing I said anything wrong.

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No one seems to want the job of Foreign Minister...but I think I have read from at least a few people on our team who'd be good at it....I think I might be a little too long-winded at times...We would need someone who was subtle, consice, and a low-profile manipulator...

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No one seems to want the job of Foreign Minister...but I think I have read from at least a few people on our team who'd be good at it....I think I might be a little too long-winded at times...We would need someone who was subtle, consice, and a low-profile manipulator...


Too bad chauvinism is one of my main virtues

The foreign advisor doesn't have to do the talking... he just has to keep track on tasks assigned to diplomats/ambassadors.

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Yeah, you could read that I was talking about a woman...but...in the interest of all fairness....errr....um....well...yep you know what I'm saying

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I would be willing to accept the job, even though I am already running for Minister of the Interior, since I think (hope) we will not encounter any other civs in the first period.

After that - I'd love the job!

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Yeah, you could read that I was talking about a woman...but...in the interest of all fairness....errr....um....well...yep you know what I'm saying


NO

There is a difference between chauvinism and manchauvinism.

You are searching for a person who isn't chauvinist. Chauvinism is the opposite of the qualities you describet. I just wanted to make clear I'm not very suited the job.

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Where are the other team members in these discussions??? It's hard to guage the other talent when they don't participate. AdmiralPJ could do Foreign Minister...he'd just need some advisors making sure he was aggressive when he needed to be, but other than that, I think he'd be perfect!

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Where are the other team members in these discussions??? It's hard to guage the other talent when they don't participate. AdmiralPJ could do Foreign Minister...he'd just need some advisors making sure he was aggressive when he needed to be, but other than that, I think he'd be perfect!


It's sad but true. Maybe we should let more members into Lux Invicta?

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we can open up more membership during the course of the game... am i correct?

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I guess there should be no problem as long as Trip validates them.

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TRIP???? Oh benevolent one!?!

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I've said i'd be happy to be Foreign minister to start the first terms, I wrote at length about it in Warriorpoets poll for me (was that meant to get my attention? it worked )


TRIP: I think your doing a great job, I hope you can carry us through to the end (i'm thinking of that complaint about official game settings etc)
It sometimes takes some guts to ignore lamers who moan and protest about little things, but thats management for you.
I and others would be glad to help you running things, if needed.

I'm sure telling the other players our women and children were suffereing from their pillaging our cities might make them think twice about aggression.. but in the end it comes down to who has the biggest swords.


Tech Stealing: There is still a chance stealing won't be detected, though they may guess someone stole from them if they see we have their tech.. but who's to say we don't have a lot of university geniuses working away hard?
It could be interesting if the victim of the theft goes around accusing the wrong person.. foreign ministers should plead all innocence and try and put the blame on one of their rich enemies(with lots of cash).

It reminds me of Alpha centauri when you could incite wars with AI v AI wars, by making your espionage look like your enemy did it.

Using the millitary method , you can make a war on a weaker but more tech advanced civ, and then only make peace with them if they give you some techs (make it clear to them the wars about technology so they'll not feel penned in, and won't think your just being mean). This works well in Empire games in AI games, who knows what human teams will do..

Divide and Conquer.. in political terms and millitarily, maybe leak false information to 2 allies to make them antagonistic to each other.

I think I can be agressive when needed, my enemies don't normally forget me, or me them
Like in real life with the Suddham Husseins , the threat of force can be powerful.. a human player won't want to lose a couple of cities if it can help it, just place an army by their backdoor and they will do what you want.. it dosen't even need a big army if you have a few well trained, hitech units.

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Thanks guys.

Carrying the whole PTWDG on my shoulders is a rough job, but someone had to do it.

Okay, anyways...

More membership is definitely a good thing at this point. We need to get a larger stable membership base than we currently have. We don't want the fate of our civilization to rest on the shoulders of 5-6 people, some of which will no doubt leave the team at some point. Status, like I said in the other thread, feel free to go out and recruit people who you know will not fail us, and help us increase the Lux Invicta hegemony.

PJ, I like the idea of leaking false information.
We just have to be inconspicuous and reserved about it... making sure it's not obvious. Perhaps making some unpointed comments in our newzupdate, or saying something in jest (I'd be good with that, but I doubt other teams would buy me leaking any sort of information, unless I took it to the extreme, then they wouldn't buy it at all cause they know that's how I am ).

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I was tossing around ideas about fake intelligence being leaked.

We are a bit behind. GoW is already upto its shady business.. Our playing tactic will greatly differ wether they have a medieval UU or ancient UU. But they do it so obviously.

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I was tossing around ideas about fake intelligence being leaked.

We are a bit behind. GoW is already upto its shady business.. Our playing tactic will greatly differ wether they have a medieval UU or ancient UU. But they do it so obviously.


We'll have a lot of time to think/discuss anyways... one turn/week ya know...

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