MSN - Drone Diplomancy, and reiterration of general diplomacy

[Kody]

John says:
did you read the new ambassdor post?
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
No I have not
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
On CGN?
John says:
yeah
John says:
I'm trying to figure out what kind of response
John says:
I think informal with slight teasing of ourselves it he best bet.
John says:
is the best bet.
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Reading the posts now
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Hmm
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
I cannot quite figure out what Buster's getting at with his rant on boreholes.
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Care to fill me in?
John says:
huh?
John says:
rant about boreholes?
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Pacting with a neighboar that puts b's all over the map will have my strong opposition. I find it annoying to look at and feel compelled to clear the map whoever has this irritating practice. Is he suffering from bad memory or something? Afraid to forget where he wanted to put the bases? or maybe wanting to inform the world that if they place a probe near the designated mark it will have a target
John says:
"B" for base sites
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
ah
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
I get it
John says:
that new land the hive found
John says:
I was right about my assessment on the drones
John says:
they were waiting to see if we were competent
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Well this is good news indeed
John says:
well it hasn't been finialised
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Tell the Drones our plans of subjugating one of the research factions
John says:
but seems things are leaning that way.
John says:
and be nice to the other?
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
yup
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
since alliances unless they are perminant such as ours may become
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
can be broken
John says:
okay
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
we need to consider some sort of way of guaranteeing that we do not fall behind in tech
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
probes are all nice and good
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
but having a research faction on our side is better
John says:
but when the opponent wises up
John says:
they can start putting down probes faster than we can destroy them
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
by that time I hope we will be able to counter any such attempt by war if necessary
John says:
*nod*
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
if we have a permipact with the Drones we should be more than able to get out troops out to other contitnets and quickly rebuild lost forces
John says:
*agreed*
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
or we may well want to take a builder aproach to the game and avoid conflict
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
though IMO that seems unlikely
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
if the other factions realise what we're doing
John says:
not unless we have the tech.
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
they may well make the first move
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
true
John says:
if we had the tech I would be happy to go strong builder until late game
John says:
in fact if we had the tech as well we would run away with the game.
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
question, what victory type will be pursue if we have a permipact with the Drones?
John says:
any
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Economic seems unlikely
John says:
most likely either victory or diplomatic
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
will we have enough votes for diplomatic?
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
we do need a 2/3 majority
John says:
if we do a little conquest on the side
John says:
yeah 2/3rds
John says:
so that means we will probably have to take over at least 2 other factions
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
it may well be easier to go for transendance
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
if we have the tech
John says:
with our tech?

John says:
I doubt it'll happen
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
same here, our best bet is conquest
John says:
or partial conquest
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
the pirates being the priority to take out
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
yes
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
if we can secure an AI vote
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
then there is no need to take them out
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
but that seems unlikely
John says:
it will be difficult to secure an AI pact
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
so we will probably have to take out Miriam and Rose
John says:
miriam just isn't nice
John says:
and rose hates police state
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
well I am not certain just exactly how powerful googlie made the AI
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
but I do not believe we will have much trouble in taking out Rose if it comes to it
John says:
he said medium
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
Miriam on the other hand we may well want to avoid
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
also we're forgeting something
John says:
if we take out rose then we'll have monsoon jungle.
John says:
you mean the cycon
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
we do not have to destroy the human factions in order to secure their votes, we can just force them to surrender
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
if they have no other choice
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
they will
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
as for the CyCon
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
I really am uncertain as to what role they will play in our future
John says:
do you think we can force the AI to surrender?
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
we were discussing yesterday that we may want to ally ourselves with them
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
I'm not sure
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
in the games I've played the AI has surrendered, except I do not know what conditions cause the AI to surrender
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
I heard at one point in time it has something to do with the number of their bases you capture in a given period of time
John says:
oh
John says:
sometimes they surrender when you have a certain number of troops at their doorstep
John says:
I believe it has something to do with how many troops you have landed on their shores
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
hmm
John says:
directly threatening their bases
John says:
and their defensive forces that are trying to oppose
John says:
Basically when it looks like you can take them over in 3-4 turns they give up from my experience
John says:
but they have to see the units I think
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
so it is possible, and we may well be able to show such a show of force
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
here, i need to go and eat
Which is better: to achieve Nirvana, or become a Boddhissatva? says:
we will talk later
John says:
okay cya