Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[NobleHelium]

I'd say it's safe to bet there's no point in the website...or in the mod. I thought we had established this already.

[kjn]

Red in Aptmod seems to indicate ended turn in the Players view, green that they haven't ended turn. Mouseover the dots, and it shows that.

There is a bunch of info that the Aptmod web ste exposes too that isn't exposed in the game. Eg, I can see one team stockpiling gold (up to circa 150-160). Gee, like I need more data to track...

[scooter]

Sent a quick courtesy message off to the German team - it's in the tracking thread. Didn't mention the 1SE thing as I figured I'd just keep it short and sweet.

[SevenSpirits]

There is a bunch of info that the Aptmod web ste exposes too that isn't exposed in the game. Eg, I can see one team stockpiling gold (up to circa 150-160). Gee, like I need more data to track...

Explain more?

[scooter]

Proposed draft to WPC:

WePlayCiv,

Greetings! Our scouting spear has found your borders, and we are very happy to have finally met you. Big credit to the kindness of team CFC for explaining to us how to meet you. How has your game gone so far? We have met CFC, Civforum.de, and now your team in that order. Have you met anybody besides CFC? The German team is some distance to your west, but we haven't figured out their exact location just yet - they found us and not vice versa.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Thanks!
scooter - Team RB

Keeping it simple. Not using the word "NAP" until they force me to. Feel free to chime in any objections/thoughts, though I'd like to send this off pretty soon so that we get the first word in without mention of "NAP"...

EDIT: as seen in the tracking thread, I did send that draft to CFC with a couple very minor fixes (swapped a word out, changed a "we" to an "I" so it was more personal, etc.)

[kjn]

I will probably need to dig around there and note down what can be worthwhile to collate, and what can be skipped.

Taking this over to the C&D thread now, to prevent further derailing.

[kjn]

No objections from me on the message to WPC.

It might be worth asking them about open borders, but perhaps later. We will probably tech Sailing soon, ie we can use the Spicy River to get trade routes to them, and we can probably take bigger advantage of having unfogged their cities than they can take.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Looks like someone's saving up for an upgrade axe rush.

Actually, the gpt seems awfully high. Any evidence of power changes and score losses? Could someone have lost a city?

[scooter]

Well, I was GOING to send that message to WePlayCiv, but the email address they have listed at CFC is wrong . Shocking right? I'll try to catch Caledorn on chat since he apparently has their email address since they've talked to WPC.

Agreed kjn that we should talk OB, but I'll leave that for a follow-up message. I figured I'd wait on that as it's a nice way to avoid a big NAP they may want but still propose something positive.

[scooter]

I got this by a chat with Caledorn. One really interesting tidbit from the chat:

scooter: hey if you happen to be around - do you have the email address for WePlayCiv? The one they have posted at CFC is apparently wrong.
caledorn: Let me check
scooter: thanks!
caledorn: I have no idea if this is their ambassador to all teams. But our ambassador has kodama402@gmail.com

CFC has a different diplomat for us than WPC. Caledorn has been super nice, but he's possibly not their all-empowered diplomat. Just something to keep in mind down the road.

Wanted to note this due to a theory pushed by people earlier in this thread. The theory went that Sommerswerd is CFC's diplo guy, but they just assigned a nice face to keep us happy. I don't think this changes anything for us right now, but I just think it's worth noting that Caledorn may just be a nice guy that doesn't actually have much power/sway over at team CFC.