Message Types

Description

| When you engage in politics between your empire and another, you mainly interact through messages sent back and forth. These political messages can be as simple as just a text message, or they can be complex trade arrangements with lists of give and take. Below is a list of the different message types you can send to another player. These messages are sent in the Communicate Window. For different message types that you select, you will be prompted to enter options for that message. |

Message Types

| General Message | A general text message that can say pretty much anything.
| Propose Treaty | Proposes that you and the other empire enter into a political treaty. The treaty does not take effect until the other empire accepts the treaty.
| Accept Treaty | If another player has proposed a treaty to you, this message means that you accept the treaty. The moment you accept the treaty, the treaty becomes effective.
| Refuse Treaty | If another player has proposed a treaty to you, this message refuses that treaty.
| Offer Counter Treaty Proposal | If another player has proposed a treaty to you, this message means that you refuse their proposal, but that you would prefer a different type of treaty. When the other player receives your message, its the equivalent of a propose treaty message, meaning that they can accept or refuse your counter treaty proposal.
| Break Treaty | If a treaty is currently in place between your empire and another, this message will break that treaty. This message does not need to be accepted or refused. At the moment you send this message, the treaty will be broken and no treaty will exist between your empires.
| Declare War | This message means that you declare war on another empire. No matter what treaty exists between your empires, this message will break the treaty and bring about a state of war. This message does not need to be accepted or refused, it immediately happens when you send the message.
| Propose Trade | This message means that you propose a trade between your empire and another empire. When you choose to send this message, you will need to select what items you wish to give in exchange for what item you wish to get. This is done in the Select Package Window. The trade that you propose will not actually occur until the other player accepts the trade.

When you select the items for a trade, you can fill in items to receive with an "Any" placeholder. This means that you want the other player to fill in these items. This is useful if you don't know exactly what the other player has to offer.

| Accept Trade | If another player has proposed a trade to you, this message will accept the trade. When you send this message, the items listed in the trade will change hands. If some of the items in the trade are "Any" items, then you cannot accept the trade. Instead, you must replace the "Any" items with actually items, and then offer a counter trade proposal.
| Refuse Trade | If another players has proposed a trade to you, this message will refuse that trade.
| Offer Counter Trade Proposal | If another player has proposed a trade to you, this message means that you refuse their trade, but that you would prefer a different type of trade. When the other player receives your message, its the equivalent of a propose trade message, meaning that they can accept or refuse your counter trade proposal.
| Give Gift | This message means that you wish to give a gift to another empire. You will need to fill in the items in the package that you wish to give. The items will not actually get sent until the other empire accepts the gift.
| Accept Gift | If another player has offered a gift, the this message accepts the gift for you. When you send this message, the items listed in the gift will be sent to you.
| Refuse Gift | If another player has offered a gift to you, this message refuses that gift.
| Offer Tribute | Similar to giving a gift, this offers a tribute to another player. A tribute is a package of items that you wish to give to another player. The items in the gift will not be sent until the other player actually accepts the tribute. A tribute is different from a gift in that a tribute is usually given to a stronger empire as a means to keep you in their good graces.
| Accept Tribute | If another empire has offered you a tribute, then this message accepts that tribute. When this message is sent, the items in the tribute are actually transferred to you.
| Refuse Tribute | If another empire has offered you a tribute, then this message refused that tribute.
| Surrender | This message means that your empire surrenders to the empire that you are sending the message to. A surrender means that your entire empire becomes controlled by the other empire. All of your ships and planets immediately become owned by the other empire. This one little message will effectively end your game.
| Grant independence to colony | This message means that your empire will grant independence to one of your colonies. When you send the message, you will be asked to select one of your planets. The change over of the planet is not automatic. This gives you time to remove your populations from the planet and get the planet in order. Once you have abandoned the planet, the other empire can come in and take it over.
| Demand / Request / Warn | This item is not a true message. It is merely a grouping for all of the possible demands or requests that you can make. When you select this, the entire list of demand messages will be displayed. Demand and request messages are not binding messages. They are merely ways of telling another empire what you want them to do.
| Want a gift | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to send your empire a gift.
| Want a tribute | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to send your empire a tribute.
| Demand your surrender | Tells the receiving empire that they must surrender to your empire.
| Remove your ships from system | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to remove their ships from a specific system. You will be prompted for the specific system.
| Remove your colonies from system | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to remove all of their colonies from a specific system. You will be prompted for the specific system.
| Leave planet | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to remove their colony from a given planet. You will be prompted for the planet that the other empire owns.
| Stop hostile actions against empire | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to stop their attacks against another empire. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to stop attacking.
| Break treaty with empire | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to break their treaty with another empire. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to break the treaty with.
| Declare war on empire | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to declare war on another empire. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to declare war on.
| Make peace with empire | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to establish a peaceful treaty with another empire. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to make peace with.
| Support us against another empire | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to attack or assist you against another empire. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to attack.
| Attack empire in system | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to attack another empire in a specific system. You will be prompted for the empire that you wish them to attack and the name of the system.
| Attack planet | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to attack a specific planet. You will be prompted for the planet that you wish them to attack.
| Stop espionage activities | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to stop their espionage intelligence activities against your empire.
| Stop sabotage activities | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to stop their sabotage intelligence activities against your empire.
| Stop attacks in system | Tells the receiving empire that you wish them to stop their attacks in a specific system. You will be prompted for the system that you wish them to stop attacking.
| Accept Demand/Request | Tells the receiving empires that you accept their demand. This means that you will do what they request that you do.
| Refuse Demand/Request | Tells the receiving empires that you refuse their demand. This means that you will not do what they request.

Special Notes

| None |

Related Areas

| Communicate Window |