Re: Diplomacy

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Per I. Mathisen wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Ross Wetmore wrote:
> > You should require Writing to exchange Embassies.
> 
> Agreed. There should be a new tech flag for this.
> 
> > It should also be a mutual exchange.
> 
> That should be left up to the players involved, surely. Common courtesy
> would mandate an exchange of embassies between players, but different
> situations may arise that can be handled inside the game inside of being
> forced to be done in one prescribed way by the rules.

The embassy should be a clause like all others.  And not an easy clause to 
get from AI too: AI doesn't need intelligence but you do.  If AI wants an 
alliance with you, it will be forced to accept an embassy, but otherwise 
you'd still have to use a diplomat.

G.