Diplomacy Scholia: selling CoL

[alva]

Well, I was the original ambassador to ND, but I'm more then ok with you taking over.
(it would make things easier on the linguistic side of things I guess, and you do have a better rapport with them then I have.)

The choice is all yours

[Harovan]

I doubt the language will be an issue, aside from that funny "climax" issue. I asked Murkel to write in English and he did. Just respond English and things are ok. I won't take over if it's not necessary, I already have enough work with this and other games .

[alva]

Then i'll send it now.(I'll add to contact me, and if in doubt to contact you)

[zeit]

GF hasn't replied yet, i've sent him a reminder, nothing worth litering the log for- just asking if he got the offer and whether or not it is being discuseed.

[zeit]

I've got their reply, sent 5 hours ago
It's a yes.

So this is where we stand: 1) No reply from ND 2) a done deal with RP for literature 3) a done deal with GoW for MM- alpng with the 150 gold assurance we give them.

[nbarclay]

Assurance they give us, you mean, right?

[DeepO]

Nathan, I guess that's the idea... us giving them 150 gold and CoL would be very silly

So, basically, ND is the only one we need to make a deal with, right? All the rest are covered... sounds good!

DeepO

[zeit]

It took Gow a while to reply- i had to send GF another PM, and Panzer32 an email to get GF to send me their agreement, but, as i said- they agreed for an assurance, which is good.


Now, what's up with ND, should we follow the tactic that helped with Gow, and send them some reminders?

I could do it, if alva won't show up soon, perhaps a message from the "FAM" would make them think the deal is of higher priority to us, and they'll hurry up (or delay purposly, for that matter)?

Please, if anyone have email addresses of the ND consul(s), post them here so i could use them, if they need arises (or even better, edit them into the ND log).

[DeepO]

Hmm... zeit, a reminder is indeed in order, but I wouldn't go as far as doing it yourself. The ambassadorship to ND has been confusing, not only to us but also to them, it would be best to centralize all messages to Alva. I'm sure he'll be online soon, and can send a reminder then. There has already been a bit of discussion for them, so perhaps it would be best to come with a few suggestions to them. E.g. the assurance deal similar to GoW, or outright gold, workers, tech.

I can imagine that if they aren't especially eager to deal with us urgently on our first contact, so let's give them everything in hand, and don't let them need to take initiative by proposing deals to us.

DeepO

DeepO

[alva]

The last message has been read by Borc, since it only went out yesteday evening I think it's a bit too soon to send another one.
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Zeit, could you edit a sort of 'current deals/proposals' into the first post of the turns threads?
(The same place where the economist etc. place their orders.)

[zeit]

I have started nagging GoW about 18 hours after not hearing from them- this might have helped speed things up, as it surely didn't hurt our efforts- we have a deal with them.

Alva- please send them a reminder, perhaps, as DeepO suggests, we should push them in the right direction- mention them that we would appreciate gold, preferably cash...

[alva]

1. The message has only been read by Borc and not by Murkel (ambassador). I asked for he's e-mail address since I think he's not online (at Poly) very often.
2. They did respond by offering literature which we declined, we should give them some time to discuss.

If I don't anything from them I'll write them an PM saying that time is very limitted.

[Shiber]

Lux is still holding the save, and when they're done Legoland still has to play before the save reaches our hands, and then we can hold it for up to 24 hours. So thankfully, we have a lot more time to finalize the trade deals. I suggest we also ask RP for a clarification of their ETA on Literature, particularly whether they'll be able to respond to the offer of CoL that we send on our turn with Literature or not.

[alva]

I found an e-mail address of Murkel in me hotmail box.

He sent the same message to me as the one he sent to SR.

I asked to make a new deal (gold?) and try to be quick about it.

[DeepO]

Shiber, I think RP will have literature ready, or is very close. last message they explicitly told us that when we could offer it, they would be able to respond with their tech.

As to ND: would they be going for construction? I thought I heard something like this from GS, so if we could get a deal on that soon, I wouldn't mind.

DeepO