Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[Lewwyn]

Sounds like they don't really understand that the Germans don't need the whole clock they are simply waiting to see if anyone brings input however long it takes and getting none.

Also sounds like they want our scout to move on out of their lands, pushing us toward the Spaniards.

[mostly_harmless]

Well, once we have revealed all CFC cities we will do just that, although the Spaniards are the least interesting civ, I would say.
and we would need to negotiate right of passage with any new civs we meet.

mh

[Tyrmith]

Spaniards are probably going to be a harder team to negotiate with if not simply because of the language barrier. We might want to ask CFC how much trouble they had negotiating with the Spanish?

[kjn]

Caledorn have already volunteered some info on that:

Well, that's a difficult one. We have peace with them, but they do not wish to sign a NAP (I think they were betrayed by a NAP in a previous ISDG, so I think they don't trust the deals).
We don't think there's any danger of war though

The NAP-stabbers would be us, I imagine.

My impression is that native Spanish-speakers as a rule are worse at English than Germans, we know they have several members who doesn't speak English, and that the entire community is made up of people who prefer to communicate about civ in Spanish.

So yes, we start with -5 in diplo relations for "you betrayed us", but we might gain a bit by sending messages in Spanish (or good Portugese). Compare how mostly_harmless could make the German turn-players to open up, when he managed to chat with them in-game.

Anyway, contact with the Spanish might help us get directions to some more teams.

[Merovech]

This was mentioned before, but to repeat: Both Regoarrarr and I speak Spanish.

[SleepingMoogle]

This was mentioned before, but to repeat: Both Regoarrarr and I speak Spanish.

Edit: Was going to say Ichabod, but he speaks Portugese iirc. Nevermind.

[scooter]

re: Lewwyn's comments - Yeah, I'll try to clarify that about the German team when I reply. It's not that they're struggling to finish, it's that they play the turn and then don't login/end turn for 36 hours. That's ridiculous.

[Tyrmith]

Do we know (Ie is it possible to tell from their recruitment thread in poly) if the Spanish team composed of people who we're in the poly game, or just friends of people who were betrayed? That might make a difference in their willingness to deal with us.

[Nicolae Carpathia]

Safer to assume the former. So, no rush to chat with Spanish AP, get all of CFC's cities mapped out, and leave the economically crippled civ for later. It's not like we'll be interacting with one another.

[Bigger]

its entirely possible they are talking about another pitboss game. If they designed this mod, its likely they play a lot of pitbosses, so its also likely they've done several intersite games. I think we're jumping to conclusions that they are even talking about the apolyton game.