I don't think I'll ever be able to trust Kyan after this thread. 
Well, I suck at diplomacy for various reasons. But I can speak a bit of spanish/while reading it fairly well too. So I could help a bit with the spanish team, if they play. From what I gathered in their planning thread, they will have a big difficulty with communicating in english. Portuñol (portuguese mixed with spanish) is way more similar to spanish than spanglish, so it'd be easier for them.
The problem is that I'm not good at diplomacy, so I'd only be able to translate what has already been written (and my english is not perfect either).
Here's what I gathered so far from the spanish thread:
Nobody there mentioned that it was the RB team that backstabbed them in the previous demogame. I'm really not sure if they remember it. It didn't seem like it.
Anyway, they are very proud of their ability and their mod (plan: ask their mod for us to test in games here, even if it's not used on the demogame). They have a similar community spirit that we have here and they are not seeing all the discussion in the CFC thread very well. They aren't very fond of the CFC guys either.
That's what I have to help.
Well, I suck at diplomacy for various reasons. But I can speak a bit of spanish/while reading it fairly well too. So I could help a bit with the spanish team, if they play. From what I gathered in their planning thread, they will have a big difficulty with communicating in english. Portuñol (portuguese mixed with spanish) is way more similar to spanish than spanglish, so it'd be easier for them.
The problem is that I'm not good at diplomacy, so I'd only be able to translate what has already been written (and my english is not perfect either).
Here's what I gathered so far from the spanish thread:
Ichabod Wrote:Some things from the Spanish thread:
*They talk about an honor based rules system going on in their community and how they got backstabbed in the last demogame they played. The only rule from this system that is enforced by their mod is the double move one, the rest is based on a gentlemen agreement between the players.
*They have a established pitboss competition community and are very keen on disallowing double moves. The APTMod which they use has a series of changes to the basegame, but they would keep only the double-move enforcer in the mod used for this game (that and the BUG features too). It's very hard to take the BUG features out of their mod.
*They consider this pitboss as a very good opportunity to test their mod and make it more popular. Their mod exist for more than 4 years. The feeling of the community about the Mod is the same of our community towards our prefered rules. They feel like not using it is going back to the past, playing with worst settings.
*They are used to play with the extra info that their mod/web page gives.
*I think they'll play. And albeit they were talking in a tongue-in-cheek way, they believe the only way to win a game like this is to be a backstabber, deceiving civ. They believe everyone will do it and they plan to do it too.
*We will get a lot of diplo points by communicating in spanish. They have a real problem to speak english, only a few members do it and even then it's not that good (and the best english speaker doesn't have a lot of free time).
*In the end, they are going to play.
Ah, by the way:
*They don't know the RB community. :neenernee
Nobody there mentioned that it was the RB team that backstabbed them in the previous demogame. I'm really not sure if they remember it. It didn't seem like it.
Anyway, they are very proud of their ability and their mod (plan: ask their mod for us to test in games here, even if it's not used on the demogame). They have a similar community spirit that we have here and they are not seeing all the discussion in the CFC thread very well. They aren't very fond of the CFC guys either.
That's what I have to help.