Re: Diplomacy ethics
Regarding reputation carrying over games.
Personally I consider people who backstab when the opportunity arises to be clever and will surely be more careful of them in the following games. Those who honor agreements even to their death every single time I consider a gullible idiots that are mostly assets when they're allied with me, as then I can either have them fight with me or fight them when I feel like doing that.
That's really it. I do have diplomacy with people who I know backstab, the thing just is that you need to be in regular contact and watch them closely for when the tables change and it isn't profitable for them to have agreements with you anymore. Having specific hatred against a specifid player since you lost the last game is just ridiculosuly childish, and gladly the people I regularily play with don't do that.
Machiavellian diplomacy feels more real and is far more intriguing, but that's just my five euro cents.
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