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Prowling in a PBEM near you!
Nov 2002
time: 00:29
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Received from vondrack of Lego. Someone had already mentioned the printing press as our next research option. What say ye? Yeah or nay? If nay, any other recommendations.
Any comments? And please note his request to keep this confidential. As Vox has never had any issues in this regard - I don't see this as being a big problem.
research cooperation
Hi, Beta!
We've been discussing the research strategy that would maximize our (yours & ours) gains... after lot of pondering, we believe that it would be best for you to go for Printing Press @ 40 turns. Here is why (feel free to argue - and keep in mind the information below is STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL, please... post this PM in your team forum in full or in part, but make sure all Voxians understand the information is CLASSIFIED):
1) Right after your "hop", you will have no choice but to go for a 40-turn research.
2) ATM, Lego is doing Astronomy, GS is doing Banking. These two techs are therefore out of question, as they will be discovered within ~10-15 turns.
3) This leaves only 2 techs "available": Printing Press & Invention.
4) We are almost 100% sure that GoW will do Invention as fast as possible, because they have been prebuilding Leo's in the Imperial City for ages.
5) ND and RP are very likely to end up warring each other soon (if not them, then I don't really know who could be ND's target - and that ND is going to attack someone, is beyond any doubts). Warring parties are unlikely to do any serious research.
6) This leaves Printing Press pretty much "unclaimed", likely for many turns - even @ the 40 turn research, you could be the first ones to discover it, acquiring a valuable asset.
After the initial 40 turn period, we'll see - we are not sure if your new empire could be ready to start doing faster research so soon, but - you can always pleasantly surprise us...
Let us know if this is okay with you.
There's another possibility, which seems to be a close second - that assumes you'd shut your research down completely until GoW discovers Invention (or until we discover Astronomy) and pick a more expensive tech (Gunpowder or Navigation) only then, to maximize the efficiency of the 40-turn research. But that involves significantly more risk than going for PP right now - Gunpowder, as a strategic tech, is very likely to be researched by someone else (someone faster). And we plan doing Navigation ourselves.
So, our recommendation would be: go for PP, please.
Looking forward to seeing your people on Legos Minor (btw, I believe we can consider The New Voice transfer successful now - our guardian units should be able to handle anything that approaches your new capital for those 2-3 turns you will need to hop the rest of your battered nation there).
Take care,
vondrack
P.S.: to prevent unnecessary research delays, we will be sending you Theology this turn.
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12-07-2003 04:06
What exactly do you mean Jon? 
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