14-10-2004 04:55									#91
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quote: Hello good friends! We are team Sunshine have had some cloudy days as of late, as we have had trouble with lost luxuries. As you may know, we have a trade deal worked out with the Latin Lovers for their dyes, but the route is a long, complicated voyage that we think goes through your roads, harbor, then MAST's harbor, and finally to us. Somewhere along that route (we guess) a barbarian cut off our access to the dyes. We think it wise that we build a road between us to shorten the length of travel time for trade between us. We know that there are plans for a food fight in the north. Should the Latins attack you we will do our best to aid you with our fast moving horsemen/knights. Of course, they are no where near as fast as your Riders. Once your war on LL starts, we will (again) lose luxuries. Please give us advanced warning so that we can adjust our lux slider to compensate for the riots that will ensue. We are peaceful people who have no interest in taking Latin lands or cities. We only want luxuries to make our people happy. Should you obtain new luxuries, we hope that you will allow us to aquire them from you at a reasonable fee. We would also like to trade you Theology for Invention. We will have Theology soon and pledge to gift it to you immediately, if you will do the same with Invention. We hope to hear back from you soon. Peace! --Togas

	16-10-2004 04:06									#92
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quote: Greetings our sunny friends. I am attempting to get back now that there is a little more free time after spending a summer moving at home and working lots of overtime at work. First of all, I am a little surprised at the state of the trade infrastructure right now. Before my time was taken from me, there was a chat about the "Road to Paradise" project for the express purpose of expediting trade between us. I have been assured that "at least one, and hopefully more" workers will be dedicated to this project, it having slipped the minds of some of the turn players during the time I was away... We will do everything in our power to inform you in advance before you lose luxuries, and to rectify the situation as quickly as possible as well. We've been over before that Tech is really not my forte. However, I see no reason that the techies won't approve it enthusiastically either. -UnOrthOdOx

	16-10-2004 04:07									#93
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quote: Greetings again. Just looking over the chatlog with you and Zargon, I thought I should explain the monkey situation a little as I was mostly involved in that decision. As a part of the major map trading initiative that I introduced, in order for us to procure said map, we had to agree to a non-interference treaty with the other continent for the duration of the monkey wars. Given the knowledge that this has granted all teams on our own continent, I believe it was a fair trade-off. Most especially when it freed the other teams on this continent to choose themselves to sign similar agreements or not, yet sped knowledge of the map to the teams as quickly as possible. I cannot say that it didn't cross our minds that it was entirely possible, and perhaps for the best, that some native teams WOULD aid team monkey... That said, on a personal note: I will not tolerate the gifting of lands for the express purpose of saving a faction. Period. Not a team stance, mind you, but you know where I stand. -UnOrthOdOx

	19-12-2004 00:21									#94
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quote: Hi guys. We've finally worked out the tech rights with CoD & Python, and here's a trade proposal: Sunshine gives Theology to Tabemono, CoD, and Python. All three teams agree to a NTA on Theology. Sunshine gets Invention and Gunpowder in return, agreeing to a NTA on both techs. (I guess we'll say it's Tabemono's responsibility to send them, though it should be whoever gets the turn next once this is signed unless a turnplayer forgets). In order to balance out the tech values, Sunshine pays Tabemono 85 gold, and CoD and Python each pay Sunshine 100 gold for a total of 200 gold. (Net gold gain for Sunshine: 115)

Wow. Nice work by Tabemono for us.

--Togas

	19-12-2004 21:37									#95
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I chatted with Klo a fair amount along the lines of this kind of deal, and I'm glad he got ahold of the other teams... they don't seem to respond to MY PMs.

	05-03-2005 19:37									#96
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Well, a year coming, it's finally happened.

quote: PTWDGII Greetings Sunshine, First of all, forgive me for not talking about this sooner, but the ultimate decision was pretty much sporradic and based on boredom of the team. As you may have guessed the war with the Latins has begun. While we respect your position of neutrality, we still invite you to join in, a feast is better with company. Zargon has taken over as our turn player, and I will be doing my best in diplomacy for the team. You can reach me either through PM or through email at SirUlias where I use AOL. Just keep in mind, while I check regularly during the workweek, mostly in the wee early hours of the morning or late at night, my weekends are typically no longer spent by the computer. UnOrthOdOx, On behalf of Team Tabemono

And my response:

quote: Hi Unortho, Thanks for the update. I can imagine that the game isn't exactly the most riveting thing going on, war is definitely a good way to stir up interest. We wish your Riders luck, but at the moment our military is definitely not situated to participate as I'm sure you can guess. In any case, if you're up for tech trading in the near future we may be able to work out a deal. Let us know what's good for you guys. Thanks, Sunshine