Diplomacy Master Thread- Helping Your Opponents Beat Themselves

[spacetyrantxenu]

I'll put it another way:

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

Why the hell not???

[zakalwe]

Here's yet another draft with the same basic information, but trimmed down a bit, just in case people prefer something a bit more concise, with less cheesy pickup lines.

Wow, that sounds like a very dirty trick by CFC. I'm sorry to hear that - they have been very difficult to us too. We are currently bound to a NAP with CFC until T175, and we are in the middle of our own war anyway as you might have seen.

However, we still want to do what we can to assist you. We are finishing Engineering at the end of T152 and really don't want to delay it, but after that we can spare some gold to help you in your conflict with CFC. We're making about X gold per turn at max tax. In addition, you are welcome to run the trade mission in one of our cities, if you are still planning on that. We also have full maps on CFC, so if you want, we could exchange maps.

Thanks,
scooter - Team RB

Novice's latest would also be fine with me, this is just polishing.

[mostly_harmless]

I'll put it another way:

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

Well, we did not have dinner with CivFr yet. At the moment we are glancing at the apparently good looking girl across the street. She could be ugly from closer up. In any case, I am not throwing my wallet after her, unless she at least smiles and waves.


mh

[novice]

I'll put it another way:

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

Yeah I think this calls for a "top ten funniest replies" competition.

I think your analogy fails, because in your scenario you don't mind getting dogpiled.

[Azza]

I'll put it another way:

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

So that's where I've been going wrong...

[darrelljs]

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

You'd be surprised how often that works .

Darrell

[antisocialmunky]

Metaphors only work if the audience can relate

[kjn]

I'll put it another way:

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

No, this is more like asking a girl out for dinner, and wondering which type of place she'd like to go for.

Most times the answer don't matter[1], but just asking is a way to get to know her better.

[1] I make an exception for McDonald's.

[kjn]

When you take a girl out for dinner, you don't hold the bill in front of her and say "Now, I'm willing to pay for this but only if you can give me some assurances that you're going to uphold your end of things."

You'd be surprised how often that works .

Given the relative market value of dinners vs. sex, shouldn't you get a bill afterwards from her?

[spacetyrantxenu]