Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

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seems fine. certainly no rush for a NAP, or really any reason to sign one. we can ask for open borders after we have more of a relationship with them, since our scout isn't in position to scout them out anyway.

[scooter]

Draft to UCiv, their original reply in spoilers:

Hi Scooter!

Thank you for your greetings. We welcome you too I think we've met only a fraction of the other teams, CFC, Zulu, Native Americans and Turks.
I think there is no problem about sharing knowledge - anyway I'll ask my countrymen first, since I'm merely an ambassador

Bye
Yuufo - UniversCiv

PS : please send any further messages to this mailbox if possible, so that my other teammembers can read it too in case!

Yuufo,

Thanks for the quick response! I actually sent that last message to your team email as well since I saw you had both listed, but I will especially make sure it always makes it to your team email in the future .

As a sign of good faith, I'll go ahead and share with you what we know about geography. To our north is WPC and the German team, who have been hard at war for a long time until recently. We're kind of thankful for their peace since it has sped the game up a bit. To our southeast is CFC who you've already met. Finally, to our west we also met CivPlayers recently. The Spanish team is very far away from us, so we're not exactly sure where their cities are - we just bumped into their Impi in the middle of nowhere.

How are your neighbors treating you? Ours have been fine so far, though we are being cautious with CivPlayers since we just met them. Anyways, let me know if you need anything!

Thanks,
scooter - Team RB

Fluffy fluffity fluff. Yawn. Figured we could just do them a favor and share the map info without them promising to give it in return. Doesn't hurt us, and maybe it gets us some brownie points. Maybe we can use that to ask for OB and scout out their land. Let me know if you want me to push for OB right away so we can scout them out, otherwise I figure we'll give it a shot in the next message.

[NobleHelium]

I don't think we should be saying "as a sign of good faith" right after meeting someone. That's like saying "I'm helping you out so you can help us out later."

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I don't think we should be saying "as a sign of good faith" right after meeting someone. That's like saying "I'm helping you out so you can help us out later."

thats not what it says at all. It says "I trust you and want you to know you can trust me."

[Lewwyn]

BTW whats it been 4 days since we last sent a msg to CFC about the oasis? No reply yet... Wonder if they are butthurt.

[fluffyflyingpig]

I lost track and it isn't in the master diplo thread. What did we sent cfc and when?

We may want to poke them again.

[Lewwyn]

Makes sense re: CFC - I'm about to send this:

Caledorn,

Thanks again for directions, and I'm glad we were able to finally be a help to you in return. I think it's been a big boost for both of us. Let me know how things go once you meet CivPlayers. They may be a very small team, but they still seem to be doing quite well in this game.

As a courtesy, I wanted to inform you that we will be settling our final border city in your direction pretty soon.

Thanks!
scooter - Team RB

Nothing really for them to reply to, but we are the last ones to send a msg.

[NobleHelium]

Just leave it regarding CFC, I say.

[kjn]

I lost track and it isn't in the master diplo thread. What did we sent cfc and when?

We may want to poke them again.

I went back to the diplo e-mail account, and we must've forgot to send the message about us due to settle the oasis area - it was discussed a lot, but then the turns sped up and we get a whole slew of new contacts and the minor crisis with CivPlayers.

I'm not sure if Scooter sent something less formal about it, when discussing directions to CivPlayers.

[kjn]

Also, signing OBs with Univers might be a very good idea soon. Due to that nice long river that our scout uncovered from CFC land, once we have trade routes going with CFC we should have trade routes with Univers as well. Less sure about the Spanish.