Diplomatic mechanics theory

[Tamur]

...having your diplomat give an estimate ("I don't think they will except this" or "They should really like this") would be nice.

You can sort-of blunder around and guess (from, say, the fact that a faction won't accept an Alliance offer and you've got them matched for strength, you're probably below 50 on the NR factor). But what you're suggesting would be absolutely brilliant, some nice simple effective feedback.

[therother]

What is known for certain is dull. Max Perutz

Good old Max. Met him once, very briefly, down in Cambridge. Great man. Great scientist. Great loss.

Anyway, you are making diplomacy dull Tamur!

[Tamur]

(person reading original post)

Oh no! I thought after I posted, "Maybe this is a bit overboard, like writing out the Eleusinian Mysteries." Though I'm not sure that the Mysteries had any math involved.

[therother]

"Maybe this is a bit overboard, like writing out the Eleusinian Mysteries.":

Hey, I ain't going near no asteriod field! It's cold between Mars and Jupiter!

math

That Chicago Manual of Style seems to have made you leave the letter s of the end there!

[Tamur]

Ah... err.... well, at least I got "hypothesise" right! lol

*batting 0 for 2 today...* wait, there's another one! Maybe it was Originally cricket slang? Egads, someone needs to send me to remedial UK culture school.