July 5th, 2012, 08:23
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Let's do our diplomacy in chicken language.
Chicken
P.S.: I used the word chicken too much, now it seems like it stopped making sense... Like if chicken doesn't mean chicken anymore. I hate when this happens...
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Ichabod Wrote:Let's do our diplomacy in chicken language.
Chicken
P.S.: I used the word chicken too much, now it seems like it stopped making sense... Like if chicken doesn't mean chicken anymore. I hate when this happens...
Surely chickens don't use the word 'chicken'...?
I mean, how much of a coincidence would that be?
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spacemanmf Wrote:Surely chickens don't use the word 'chicken'...?
I mean, how much of a coincidence would that be?
This kind of question makes my head spin. A chicken brain is small, after all!
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What if we made our diplomacy in a very naive/obnoxious without knowing style?
We could call Team Menagerie "Parkin's team", for example, underestimating all his teammates. All the other teams will be making an effort to avoid these mistakes and we could go and do them all. And we should also be very blunt and disregard most of the obvious flattery, flowery text that diplo messages normally use.
The problem is there's nothing to be gained by doing this, other than having fun (and maybe only my kind of fun).
Or maybe we could restrict our own diplo-messages. A different post restriction every week! Limerick week, chicken week, engrish week.
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Yeah, you can tell that I quit my philosophy course before reading Machiavelli... 
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Ichabod Wrote:What if we made our diplomacy in a very naive/obnoxious without knowing style?
We could call Team Menagerie "Parkin's team", for example, underestimating all his teammates. All the other teams will be making an effort to avoid these mistakes and we could go and do them all. And we should also be very blunt and disregard most of the obvious flattery, flowery text that diplo messages normally use.
The problem is there's nothing to be gained by doing this, other than having fun (and maybe only my kind of fun).
We should recruit Locke to be our diplo guy...
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Ichabod Wrote:What if we made our diplomacy in a very naive/obnoxious without knowing style?
We could call Team Menagerie "Parkin's team", for example, underestimating all his teammates. All the other teams will be making an effort to avoid these mistakes and we could go and do them all. And we should also be very blunt and disregard most of the obvious flattery, flowery text that diplo messages normally use.
The problem is there's nothing to be gained by doing this, other than having fun (and maybe only my kind of fun).
Ok, ok, first we go with Sury of India. Then we go for some kind of straight talking diplo?
spacemanmf Wrote:Since novice would probably spend a lot of time on his beloved sandbox, perfecting our opening, I offered to do most of the diplo, but I suggested that we keep it relatively minimalist. We can keep it friendly and regular, but concise. We tell it how it is. We cut to the chase. We are the Straight Talkers.
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One thing for sure: we must play this game honorably. Deal breakers are the worst kind of scum and villainy.
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Seriously though, I think we should promote the impression that we're mainly here to have fun and troll around (Which seems to be more or less true anyway.) So I am in favour of our general tone being humourous.
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spacemanmf Wrote:Ok, ok, first we go with Sury of India. Then we go for some kind of straight talking diplo?
It worked out pretty well, didn't it?
uberfish Wrote:Seriously though, I think we should promote the impression that we're mainly here to have fun and troll around (Which seems to be more or less true anyway.) So I am in favour of our general tone being humourous.
Yeah, that's a good way to do things. If we give the impression that we are the "for-fun" team, we'll be regarded as the main kingmaker in a game full of competitive teams and players. Thats a good position to be in, because everyone will want to be friends with us and they won't realize our evil scheme of kingmaking ourselves as kings until it's too late.
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