(February 24th, 2014, 17:47)Mardoc Wrote: So if I understand you correctly, you got both TT and MJW onside by promising to suicide to the other if they don't cooperate?
Not exactly. For starters, I never threatened Twinkletoes, I reasoned with him. We've had a weird relationship so far (and next I'm going to do a post on that), but he wanted to go the Juggernaut route and do a few things to throw people off the scent. However, he's done a few things (the Mos-Sev order that he forgot to tell me about and spilling our plans to MJW) that have made it hard for me to trust him.
MJW I threatened, because I know from experience that reason/logic mean nothing to him
. Clearly from the gamestate thread it didn't work. Whether it would have worked prior to TT spilling our plans, though, is the real question. I don't know the answer, but if I'm Italy and Russia tells me he's really working with Turkey, I nope the heck out of any deals with Turkey. So I'll let you do the math. Anyway, the short of it is Twinkletoes risked any chance of Italy cooperating for a chance at gaining a new friend so he could stab me, so in doing so, he made me not really trust him.However, it's not like I have a lot of other awesome options on who to be friends with. I'm getting to work on that, but I have an array of bad options and no good ones. Further updates coming up. I'll explain my Ank-Arm orders first, then talk about TT's reaction to everything, then try to cover other stuff.