Diplomacy is part of the game... but so is anti diplomacy.

Making a truce is an act of aggression to the other players not in the truce and is commonly followed by attacks or other players trucing against you. Although new players may not act this way it is a better strategy than ignoring a truce.

Sometimes it makes more sense not to be the first one to make a truce.

Counter truces are fun. I was just suprised by a conversation like "I hate trucers" "yeah me too" "let's kill them" "ok" (sth like that). It's actually a funny kind of counter truce, which I wouldn't mind. I just don't want to be said to spoil the game or be unethic. That was all... but I guess it was just a coincident that this happened in 3 of 4/5 games or so.

Usually I dont do truces and I never propose them. However, when someone asks for a truce and you know that a decline would mean him proposing a truce to someone else... You have little choice but to acceptthe truce.

I tend to be very aggresive against people that make truces. If more people will do that it becomes less attractive to make truces. I guess that is the only way to ban them.

I am not sure if I consider truces unethical however. But I do think they make the game less fun.

They're not unethical. You need to think of who you might be offending.

If you truce with someone against the first place guy you're going to get hit by him. But your trucing because you think two can take first.

If your 2nd and you truce against first you better be sure 1st needs your help. Otherwise its a smart decision for 1st to take you out since everyone else will probably focus on you.

Also its good to truce with a neighbor who is fighting someone else. You're basically telling them that you will not attack them while they're being attacked on another front. And they will probably help you later.

the most fun game i had, was with 3 players. One dominator, me 3rd. Made an truce with the 2nd player, and both killed the 1st player who was already sure about his 1st place. the 2nd wanted to surrender at first, but I convinced him, with lets try, together we have equal number of countries than him, we cant loose anything...

I personally hate when two players are dominating and decide to ally simply to solidify their win. Then the other players feel like its their job to get third. These are the times I make a suicide move against the trucers to motivate the others.

Fiji, its typical for stupid players to fight about the 3rd place in this situation. A lot fairer and more fun would if the remaining players would in this situation join up, to kill the both trucing ones. Even if they have a small chance of winning, I feel it pathetic when players try to quick kill even smaller ones in their foresight of their own doom.

truces can create an extra dimension in the gameplay and the fun but the truces i hate are when somebody with only one or two grounds wants to truce with the 1st to try and have a 2nd or 3th place
survival of the fittest is my policy

I´m also a big fan of truce! The best games I had:

I was in a lost position, two or three territories in a corner, my neighbour the same.

The "big ones" are fighting again and don´t look at us - we´re to tiny to do samething.

And instead of fighting I made an ally with my neighbour and we "rock" the table - one by the other...

This is fun!