Niccolò Machiavelli's Thread

[plako]

No need to tell anything about the relationship between us and Gillette and do we really have a deal that prevents us sharing their location?

[darrelljs]

TEAM asked about Gillette's location in their e-mail. We agreed not to share information with other teams on location without getting permission first.

Darrell

[novice]

Outing me as a pessimist will backfire horribly.

[spellman]

Not a bad e-mail.

[plako]

Dear Trolls:


Sincerely,

TEAM

[plako]

My guess: Gillette and TEAM are buddies now so TEAM doesn't need to care what we think. No word from Gillette for a long time so it seems our short period of fame is over.

Therefore going for AH and copper city seems best to me. We shoud poke Gillette and try to find out, if they're still intrested in to get a deal. I won't hold my breath they're. Diplomatically We've been pretty hard partner to deal with.

[plako]

Our response could be similar meme referring to their opening message as BS

[zakalwe]

UMAD?

also seems appropriate.

[darrelljs]

Diplomatically We've been pretty hard partner to deal with.

Hey now! Our response time with one exception has been way better than the other teams . Speaking of which:

Grenadan Goliaths,

Apologies for a slower response than you're accustomed too. Given that the game was down for the weekend, most of our team took a bit of a break for the weekend. We're back in action now though.

While I don't think we can seal it in ink/blood quite yet, we are generally in agreement with your proposals. We are going to try to do some dotmapping, but the neutral zone is a generally good idea, and we also like having the NAP. Our only minor hesitation is some lack of map knowledge that we'd like to correct, but we see no serious problems with your proposal. As for the NAP, you're thinking a 40 turn NAP and not a NAP up to T40 right? Just wanted to make sure we're talking about the same thing here.

Thanks,
Gillette

You guys have 24HRs to post thoughts that I will use to draft and send an immediate reply with .

Darrell

[plako]

I would mainly just respond to their questions.

One thing to consider is that we want to avoid situation where our offer's validity time is undefined while they could accept or decline it whenever it suits best for them. Not sure this requires any content in the message. It is more about the mindset that we're free to do whatever we like, if they choose to postpone accepting the deal. We should also avoid to say anything that would imply we're accepting same deal also later.