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  • Diplomat Recruitment

    Going forwards in this game, one of the keys that will insure our long term prospects of succeed or failure is going to be diplomacy.

    Also, as pointed out to us by a variety of situations, our diplomacy needs a bit of work. After the past two week, I see that we need to adjust our diplomacy scholia. The secret is contact, contact, and more contact. Ideally we should always be talking (via chat and PM) to the other civilizations. I suggest having a chat a week with each other team, no matter what. Talk about he weather for all it matters, but talk. We should ALWAYS either looking for deals in the future or are cementing a new one. We should go into these chats with the spirit of, I’ll scratch your back if you’ll scratch mine. Always looking for a new angle to work. Feel them out about outlandish proposals and learn what their desires are.

    This takes people with the motivation and time to do it regularly. But it is difficult, as you all know. I am not a very good ambassador as my presence here ebbs and flows (Thanks Nathan). I believe (with a few notable exceptions) that it tends to be the norm. So here is what I propose we do in order to strengthen our diplomacy. I want to get more people involved. Below is the a staffing, I believe that we need to conduct adequate diplomacy. Note I added two “high” level; positions. Not sure if they are needed or not, but I think it would help.

    We need a Diplomacy despot (MoDA) and an assistant (FAM)
    Also we also need a PR person, a spin doctor.

    These three set policy for their areas of responsibility

    Minister of Diplomatic Affairs: Sets policy, acts as a high level filter, organizes the diplomacy office..

    Minister of Foreign Affairs: Effectively the Vice MoDA, but primarily directs and backs-up ambassadors.

    Minister of Foreign Relations : PR person, a spin doctor The one who publishes our “spin”

    Ambassadors: Conducts day to day conversations with the other teams we need two or three (two with one back-up) per team.

    Individuals in any position may be also referred to as diplomats.

    This gives us (3) high level officials (HLO) and currently (10-15) ambassadors.

    Currently we have 1 HLO and 6 ambassadors here is the breakdown….

    MoDA:
    ManicStarSeed
    Ambassadors:

    Vox: Nbarclay, ManicStarSeed
    RP: OPD
    Lego: DeepO
    GoW: Zeit
    ND: Alva

    We need at least 4 (up to 9) people willing and able to help focus on regular diplomacy with each team and 2 others to fill HLO. That’s a minimum of 6 people required to step up…

    Please comment and volunteer:

    Thanks
    mss
    Remember.... pillage first then burn.

  • #2
    Minister of Foreign Relations : PR person, a spin doctor The one who publishes our “spin”
    Bah! Spin bad. Screw spin! StormHawks spit on spin.



    Like I said, I am willing to be a backup ambassador type person. That would probably require that I figure out how to get into chats.

    I'd be willing to back DeepO up for Lego. How's that?

    -Arrian
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    • #3
      I can assist you, MSS. PR is not my thing, but I do have contacts on many of the other teams.
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      • #4
        I would hope that someone like, say... Frustrated Poet might be interested in being a public spokesman.
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        • #5
          I'm a veteran diplomat from the ISDG (CFC Team, of course. ) I'd be interested in being a PR person, or perhaps a back-up ambassador.
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          • #6
            I would like to volunteer and serve as ambassador. Which team doesn't matter much to me.
            "Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth,
            And the truth isn't what you want to see,
            Close your eyes, and let music set you free..."
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            • #7
              Originally posted by notyoueither
              I would hope that someone like, say... Frustrated Poet might be interested in being a public spokesman.
              Given that ... 1) All the spin-doctoring, deception and roleplaying doesn't interest me at all, and 2) I don't have the time (nor inclination) to spend a lot of time chatting to the other teams in IRC ... I don't think I'm the right man for the job.

              Sorry.
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              • #8
                Well, just because I had them before, I could be backup for RP. But I prefer if that would mean 3rd in the row, instead of second

                Oh, and Arrian: Thanks! If this gets approved, I'll leave them a message. I want to go back to the regular Sunday 21h GMT chats with Lego, I don't know if this fits you.

                DeepO

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                • #9
                  21 GMT would be 16 EST, right? 4pm Sunday for me.

                  If I can figure out how to get into and participate in chats (never done it) I could probably make that fairly regularly.

                  -Arrian
                  grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                  The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                  • #10
                    I think so yes, maybe one hour off... I'll try to lead you into the chat as best I can (I'm not an IRC wizz, though), so that won't cause too many problems...

                    DeepO

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                    • #11
                      Well, I don't have IRC (I guess I'll have to suck it up and download it or somethign).

                      On the time zone thing - it's currently 9:54 am for me.

                      -Arrian
                      grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                      The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                      • #12
                        and 15:54 here (but I'm at GMT+1, so that would be 14:54 GMT)

                        Chat: there used to be a 'poly java interface, but I never got it to work, and I don't know if it is still active. Otherwise you will need a IRC client (I'm using mIRC, but there are others, possibly smaller). I'm not sure, I thought it was a couple of MBs in size, so that's not too bad even on a phone modem. It's like a couple of Nathan's e-mails

                        DeepO

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                        • #13
                          It's like a couple of Nathan's e-mails




                          -Arrian
                          grog want tank...Grog Want Tank... GROG WANT TANK!

                          The trick isn't to break some eggs to make an omelette, it's convincing the eggs to break themselves in order to aspire to omelettehood.

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                          • #14
                            IRC is easy once someone shows you what to do. There's all sorts of weird fancy stuff you can do, but if all you want is to log onto somewhere and chat it's straightforward.

                            You'll figure it out, dude.

                            www.mirc.com is the place to download the most common client.
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                            • #15
                              The FAQs on the site are very good.
                              "Close your eyes, for your eyes will only tell the truth,
                              And the truth isn't what you want to see,
                              Close your eyes, and let music set you free..."
                              - Phantom of the Opera

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