GSC&C Discussion thread

[zeit]

Well, if Togas really believes this is how ambassadors should act, then he is not as sophisticated as he claims to be. Since an ambassador is essentially a tool, there is no harm in him being emotional and conacted to the team he works with- its the FAM that shouldn't be afraid to exploit the emotional bond (if tehre is one) between his ambassadors and those of the other teams.
The FAM has to be able to hurt his ambassadors feelings- sometimes backstabbing a friend of his, and so forth.

As a communicator, mediator or when intimidating, an ambassador has to have his own style, and express (at least partially) his true emotions, this way he does his job most efficiently, IMHO.

[FrustratedPoet]

After reading some further comments by Togas on this issue he is appearing to be quite the little Machiavellian. I wouldn't turn your back on him, if I were you ...

[DeepO]

Legos meeting GoW? damn... that's not good. We didn't got MM yet, did we? Maybe time to send them a message, I would love to be able to get the lego contact very soon...

DeepO

[Shiber]

Yes! Certainly! Now!
If I understand correctly, we have agreed to this plan of trying to find the distance between our continents using parts of the minimaps and then figuring out if it'd be possible to meet mid-ocean, almost a week ago (if my sense of time is correct).
It is time to tell Lego of our ideas. Come on come on come on! Hurry! Our chance is slipping through, and if there's one thing I'd really hate to see, is seeing a Bobian make contact with Lego despite the fact that we could have been first there.

[alva]

I noticed that comment from Togas too, since they should realise by now, we are using close city placement (I wonder why!?! ), they will be looking at the scores differently

[asleepathewheel]

From the stuff I posted in the GSwhatever thread, we have learned a bit more about geograpy and other things.

RP
-Controls South Bob

ND
-Mountains and Jungle
-2 iron (one adjacent to capital) and 2 horses
-one horse was between lux and ND

GoW
-Towards the south

[Aeson]

We won't be boring for long!

[Shiber]

Originally posted by asleepathewheel
-one horse was between lux and ND

Don't you mean iron?
Or is my memory just fooling me?

Originally posted by Aeson
We won't be boring for long!

YEAH!
Look out, world!

[Aeson]

The screenshots at ND's site show the Horse being contested. The Iron may have been as well, not sure.

[Aeson]

Being viewed as boring is probably a good sign. No one is preparing for the... (I will refrain from using a pun in this instance)

[Aeson]

In regards to posting 'spoiler' type info from the ISDG, we shouldn't. It isn't fair to expect Sir Ralph and Soren to be able to no see what we're talking about. I don't know how fast they read, but I tend to see the whole post almost simulaneously. A warning definitely wouldn't work in such a case.

If you post it, it will be seen. Unless we start up an 'ISDG info' thread that is seperate. That isn't a good idea either as the info we are working off of should be available to all members as they are part of the decision making process.

I think most of us in the ISDG will catch those things that are said and apply them to our logic in this game. Mentioning them here just complicates things.

[Shiber]

I think you're right. I'll take that into consideration in the future.

[alva]

I already altered the post somewhat

[DeepO]

Us being boring... yeah, right no need to change that image, it will get changed soon enough

DeepO

[Shiber]

Originally posted by Aeson
That is lucky... at 30% odds for a tech (I think it's ~30% and my testing was just off) that's roughly .243% chance... Better if they opened more than 5 huts. From the wording it sounds like they got at least a couple non-techs. How big is their landmass? 5+ huts is a lot of territory on most maps.

According to one of the logs that I intercepted, Lego doesn't think that their landmass is very big. I was listening to Vondrack talking with E_T or Trip; Vondrack could have been just bluffing, but then again, I never saw a single civ get a large landmass all to themselves.
They'll have more room to expand to, though. IIRC they stated that they have found another landmass in one of their diplomatic messages.