Re: Survivor, Diplomacy, Metagaming? (spoilers)

I have no problems with that either. It only works once, however, and could
ruin your Diplomatic reputation forever.

Dorian Love
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"David H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> I couldn't resist, I found the most recent episode of survivor to be
fairly
> interesting.
>
> Brief summary:  One of the players (Jon) knows that a family member is
> always allowed to visit.  In advance he makes a plan for the family member
> to give him some bad news... his grandma died.  Its a lie, his grandmother
> is in fact alive.  He uses the sympathy garnered from this lie to win the
> reward challenge and, more importantly, to sway the vote at tribal council
> to save his ally.
>
> In Diplomacy, a similar tactic would be to claim that you had just lost
your
> job/wife/father in real life (during a gunboat game) and hope to gain some
> leverage inside the game.  Eg. "Sorry I have been so uncommunicative
lately,
> I just lost my job and times are hard.  Just tell me what needs to be done
> and I'll help you".
>
> Obviously, for this to work in diplomacy, you need to have built up a
prior
> relationship until the point where it would be reasonable for you to
divulge
> this type of "news".
>
> So, my question is, is this an acceptable behavior in Diplomacy?  Offhand,
> in the survivor show, I have no problems with what Jon did, he thought
ahead
> and made a good plan.  Similarly, if someone wants to claim that their
wife
> just got killed to help them in a diplomacy game, I'm not sure if I have a
> problem with that either, but I'm curious as to what other people think...
>
> David Hertzman
>
>