Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[waterbat]

Is there provision for pausing the game? Even if its against the rules, might earn us diplo points with them

[waterbat]

Maybe fire off a quick email to their team.

[waterbat]

sorry to rrar the thread up, some member of the CP team logged in and made the turn roll. with 20 minutes to spare or so:

[Sullla]

We still haven't sent a response back to CivPlayers yet. If everyone is mostly happy with what we had posted in this thread, we should probably get ready to send it.

[scooter]

Sent to CivPlayers:

Decebal,

First, I agree that Right of Passage is an issue that can be separately discussed. I'm going to assume in our conversation that Open Borders is strictly for routes, and we can deal with Right of Passage later if we want.

Our players have estimated that we will actually not benefit any more than you will. The reason for this is we are about to connect a route with a couple other teams too, so a lot of our routes will be taken up by other teams. Yes, we would certainly profit a little extra from routes to some of your bigger cities, but a lot of our routes will come from other teams too. This means our position is that we would rather not pay for trade routes to you. Besides, you will have to wait quite a long time for that tank . If you have a concrete, reasonable suggestion, I am always willing to listen, but we don't think paying a large amount of hammers for routes is really necessary right now when we can just get them elsewhere.

I don't want to totally shut things down though, so how about we consider a simple border agreement? I think we have a well-defined border between us, and I'd like it if we could keep it that way. I would propose that neither of us settle any more cities between our borders. There are a few dead tiles between us, but they would be very weak cities, and it would only strain our relationship. I think it's best we both just maintain this border and settle elsewhere. Are you interested in agreeing to this?

Thanks,
scooter - Team RB

Intended to get this out last night, but got tied up with a late night for work. I decided to pretty much send it as-is, with Merovech's comma correction.

[kjn]

And now it's time for another introductory letter, that we can send to Univers tomorrow.

Any reaction from CFC about our settlement notification?

[scooter]

And a response to WPC's big crazy plan.

Nope, nothing from CFC yet.

[scooter]

Another fast reply from CivPlayers:

Greetings scooter,

The tank was a figure of speach, ofc it would be great, but unreasonable
I was thinking more on the line of a worker or two to help us tame the unfriendly land. I will take into consideration your proposal about the buffer zone between our nations so we don't get into cultural territorial disputes in the future.

Thank you kindly,

Decebal

[kalin]

A worker or two?!? I guess it doesn't hurt trying... but give them a worker of OB? Com'on... Other than that I don't sense we will be cooperating that much with these guys. Question: would we consider warring over the elephants?

Kalin

P.S.: I posted this in the wrong thread. I tried to delete the post, but got a message about not being able to. Can someone please delete my post from the "Diplomacy Correspondence Tracking" thread. Thanks.

[SleepingMoogle]

Let's get a connection to CFC instead.. I don't think CivPlayers are going to play ball and I'm certainly against gifting them Workers for something as basic as OB.