Stateing it like NH says it just makes us look nasty and untrusting and insinuates that they are the same as well- just say it like reggorrar says IMO, it accomplishes the same thing while building our relationship.
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Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves
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NH,
If they ask for a fourth Missionary, we explain the misunderstanding and return the Archer. Why give them the opportunity to claim the Archer is for a fourth Missionary? If you do a Karnaugh map on the outcomes, your approach can cost us an Archer but never gains us an Archer, whereas regoarrarr's approach can save us an Archer but never cost us an Archer. In no case do we provide a fourth Missionary. Darrell
All right, if you say so. I don't know anything about Karnaugh maps.
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Well the problem is I'm not exactly sure how I'm supposed to communicate that to them. They don't have a team email which is just mystifying to me and stupid. All they have listed is the personal email of Tatu, and if he's unavailable or something then they're really only giving us diplo window as a choice. This team is ridiculous.
scooter, I can always type any message you post here into the in-game chat window. That's an incredibly stupid way to carry out diplomacy, but we can do it.
In the larger picture, this team does appear to be rather delusional. They keep issuing demands of their neighboring ally who's vastly stronger in every conceivable metric. I find it irritating; in their position, I would be very humble and do anything possible to stay on the big gun's good side. I genuinely wonder if they realize just how far behind they are compared to the top teams. I mean, this is the team that's still missing a granary in half their core cities... The belief that a Drill II archer (an ARCHER!!!) is somehow something valuable that we would want to have cracks me up. 
How about something like this:
Trade window draft to WPC Wrote:Hey, we appreciate the offer, but we are about to revolt out of Organized Religion, so we will lose our ability to easily make missionaries, so we will stop building them for quite awhile. However, we are willing to supply you with one more missionary - we can get it to your land as soon as next turn. Hopefully that's helpful to you. That work? I figure that should be understandable, even to their crazy team.
Sent to Apolyton:
RB Wrote:Apolyton, Didn't get any feedback on this which I usually assume means "yep go for it" so it's sent. |
