There are many forms of assertion, the most common being an assertion of a single expression, such as “Itemized Comparison”. This statement costs two reason, but gives the player three influence, which moves the parley indicator three points in the player's favor. They do, however, come in multi-expression types, which cost from two or more expression pools.
Comments usually give a significant amount of expression to your opponent, giving them more fuel. “Snippet of Wisdom” is an example of this type of statement.
Furthermore, engaging in the different conversation types will have different effects in civic diplomacy. This portion of the topic is covered in the civic diplomacy tutorial.
. It is the prohibited expression type in entertain parleys.Strategies based mostly on demand statements favor a faster, lower-scoring game.
Dialogue points are earned by a player each turn the parley indicator is on their side of the gameboard, whether it is their turn or the opponent's turn. No matter what number the parley indicator reads, only one dialogue point will ever be earned.
In conjunction, only when the player earns a dialogue point, will they also earn a new line of dialogue.
Evaluations, generally, build up one type of expression while fueling your opponent a little. This is the trade off for generating expression from the ground up.
Each race is predisposed to a certain expression type, which is what the majority of their starting statements are composed of.
. It is the prohibited expression type in incite parleys.Strategies based mostly on flattery statements have the benefit of being unpredictable, but difficult to master.
The left side of the gameboard is where statements will appear as they are played. The center of the board represents both sides expression pools, and the right side has the parley status and indicator, where a player can track their progress through the parley.
Always remember, the player is represented on the bottom half of the gameboard, while the opponent is represented on the top half.
A negative influence value moves the parley indicator in the opponent's favor, while a positive value moves the parley indicator in the player's favor. A value of zero is usually found on evaluation, repeal, and rebuttal statements.
. It is the prohibited expression type in convince parleys.Strategies based mostly on inspire statements favor a faster, high-scoring game with lots of expression given to the opponent.
Listen can be a powerful ability in more difficult parleys, as it starves the opponent of any expression that playing a statement may have otherwise given them. It is important to remember that as long as the parley indicator is on the player's side, there may be no reason to play a statement and fuel their opponent.
The indicator will only count up to ten on either side of the gameboard.
Any time the parley indicator is on a player's side of the gameboard at the end of a turn, that player will earn a dialogue point.
The player is represented on the bottom half of the parley status, while their opponent is represented on the top half of the parley status track.
. It is the prohibited expression type in gossip parleys.Strategies based mostly on reason statements favor a slower, heavier-hitting style of play.
More advanced rebuttals come with a cost to play, but will remove more of the opponent's expression and may even have a positive influence value.
Each statement has a range in turns that it will take to become active again after being played. The timer is reduced by one each full turn after the player finishes their turn. For example a refresh of two will become one after both the opponent and player have completed their turns.
Repeals are listed as having a cost in one expression. They turn this cost into at least double that amount in another expression type the player can use. They generally have a zero influence value like evaluations, but tend to have a shorter refresh time.
Repeals can be a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled player.
Once a player selects a statement and places it on their side of the gameboard, that player will have to press the speak button to play the card. Listen is the other option available to a player and a well-timed listen can be just as potent as playing a statement.
One example of a special card may be a statement that engages all of your opponent's refresh timers or allows a player to safely escape a parley they are losing. By nature, these do not easily fit into a category as they can have many different and far reaching effects.
The influence can be found in the wax seal on the top right corner of the card. Cost can be found in the colored dots underneath the icon where the number represents how many expression of each type the card costs to play. The refresh is listed as a range on the bottom right of the card. The expression given to each player is in the middle of the card.
There are five basic types of statements: evaluations, assertions, comments, repeals, and rebuttals. Each type has its own function in a strategy, and a powerful strategy will be made up of most types.
A sixth type of statement is special cards. These affect the gameplay in a way that can fundamentally change how a diplomacy match is played.
Initially, the player begins with five slots for their statements, however they receive a sixth slot once their skill in diplomacy reaches 101. Each one hundred points after this, they will earn another slot in their strategy tray, until they finally receive a tenth slot at skill 500.