Wouldn't it be sorta hard to make a NAP without communication?
Here's a couple of moves that would be technically ok but very un-sportsman-like:
-Name your god 'Machaka! NAP until 30!' or similar.
-Name your prophet 'Send gold first: slaves sold 15g per' or in the same vein. Kill your prophet and you can do it again.
-Rename scouts with diplomatic messages and suicide them on the receiver of choice. (Heck, I could name my scouts Entente Cordiale and most wouldn't even blink... But Alneyan would sure know what I want when the scout comes trashing!
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Here's another, not as severe:
-Send gems for somebody. What would you do if Mictlan sent you 5 fire gems? If he sent you 1 gem a turn? I would think twice before attacking him, since then he presumably wouldn't send the gem. Also, quite possibly if Mictlan sent me gems out of the blue I might send him back gems or money, in the hopes of it happening again. This could of course not work, too
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Combine the two: Name your prophet 'Send me slaves for these gems!' and send Abysia a couple piles of gems. Gets the message through, undoubtedly.
...yeah. I wouldn't appreciate tricks such as these, although the house rule doesn't strictly speaking ban them: after all, sending stuff is hardly diplomacy if no reason is given, right? And if you have a burning need to name your prophet 'Everyone dogpile Mictlan!', that's your business, no?
I play this one with the thought that you are all AIs to me.* Makes for a good attitude in many ways, since whoever complained when AIs banged him seemingly in concert, and who did ever want to send anything to AIs? (Aside from Gandalf who if memory serves sends herald lances to enemies of Ermor... Now don't anyone get any funny ideas!
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*Top that as a slur!
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