Ok thanks for the scare !
Well my motivations are multiple :
- The way the continent is designed does not favour an early attack of each other.
- I would like to continue my expansion for a long time there is TONS of amazing land around me.
- I am playing early wars in all my other Civ3 PBEM and I would like to play a builders game for now.
- we both have MW which negates the effect of superior Special Units, often the differentiator in early wars.
- I would love to be involved in planning and executing a major landing/invasion of another continent like you guys did in the ISDG semi-final.
- Whomp is the strongest player in the game I feel (even though Barbu is good, I have beaten him already and he had to take over from someone), this is a strong factor, if my neighbour had been Classical am not sure I would have offered full cooperation/alliance
- An early war between us could mean a huge deficit in Science vs teh other continent.
- etc...