& theCzech(as Germ.) gave me a Bounce in Bur? - geez...

in a live game the other day "Since I am france, I get Belgium. You (E) take holland and Germany can have Denmark." lol

Also MadMarx's reiteration of "I'm just a go with the flow kind of guy" whenever he stabs you. (I love him dearly though of course)

'sounds good' is one of my favorites. so neutral and vague!

"no"

the silent neighbor's first message: "why did you attack me?"

"Can you support me to X" without ever offering anything in return.

In a game i'm playing I was alleged "incompetent" by another player so that he could "drag out" my plan for an alliance between us. I gave him a 500 word end game plan the next chat response. /walloftext

The next turn he did moves that were completely unlike what we discussed. When I asked him what HIS plan was, he responded he was just sort of going with the flow.

wtf??

Sounds like he was just asking you "he dude, tell me your moves", but then in a very clever way.

I like to use the "I can do that". It doesn't say I will, just I'm capable of it, but a lot of people then get pissed when I don't and I give them the reasoning that I didn't say "I will do that".

Oops, just gave away one of my tricks.

lol draug i have done that many times and then they end up trying to stab me and i recruit the country they were attacking to help me with them if i cant deal with them myself. its funny

I hate it when people tell me anything like:
"Stop spamming global, its annoying."
WHY ELSE WOULD I DO THAT!?

"thoughts?"

thats another one of my fav's!!!!

@ bas, I figured that's what it was, so I didnt really tell him anything of usefulness, just what I thought HE should do ;)

Ms. Bent, I have never stabbed you, at least not without your knife already firmly planted in my back. For some odd reason, I always want to ally with you, in every game we've played, and for some other odd reason, you have always stabbed me, in every game we've played. It hurts my feelers, and I don't want to be mean to you, so I must reiterate to you that the only reason I am coming after you is because you've come after me first. I must go with the flow, I must be a mirror and reflect your actions back at you, I must follow the Golden Rule and do unto others as others have done unto me, whether I want to or not. In other words: It's not me, it's you! :-P

'can do'

@MadMarx - I think you are confused.

The RL Golden Rule is do unto others *as you would have them* do unto you, not as they do unto you.

And the Diplomacy Gold Rule is do unto others *before* they do unto you. You are screwing up both of them. :-)

Draugnar, this isn't about me, it's about Ms. Bent and the fact that I'm a giver. I enforce the Golden Rule on behalf of others, out of respect. Ms. Bent did unto me as she would have me do unto her, so I was merely taking clues from her (i.e. going with the flow), bowing down to her demands (when I "stabbed" her after she stabbed me).

""Can you support me to X" without ever offering anything in return. "

I love that. I recently was in a game where I was Austria. Turkey stabbed me to get Greece, so I came at him. Russia got opportunistic as well, but didn't see me as a threat so I was able to make a quick move back at him. I had armies in Rumania and Serbia, and a fleet in Greece. Russia had an army in Bulgaria and a fleet in Constantinople. Turkey had a fleet in the Aegean.

Turkey: "Can you support me into Bulgaria?"

I looked at the game, and said, "WTF?"

So I sent him back, "Yes, I'd love to use all three of my units to help you get another supply center with your one way out of position fleet, and I have absolutely no desire or claim to take the thing myself, especially after I had to take Greece back from you after the last time we had a deal."

I thought the sarcasm was obvious.

Turkey: F Aegean Sea move to Bulgaria (South Coast) (fail)

I'll support your convoy to Switzerland!

^^^^^^

THAT IS GREAT!!!!!!

;-) (I won!)

"Ms. Bent did unto me as she would have me do unto her"

hmmm...sounds kinky. :)

"Don't mention betrayal to me ever again". Of course I got stabbed two turns later and we both lost the game...

idiot.

or even better............

your and x's moves look pretty suspicious.

Shit like this is exactly why I mostly play gunboats.

that IS a point that was so very awkward

@Dharmaton: Sure I will support your convoy into Switzerland, but only if you support my army from Iceland to Crete.