pwnface, on 11 February 2015 - 10:50 PM, said:
You can still have diplomacy between player units or player alliances. I simply consider these as negociations to form understood agreements between those parties. This doesn't mean that those parties can then determine policy for other units or alliances however in their related faction. As such it is not constitutional with regards to the faction.
Interestingly however your response to trying to open diplomatic talks was that you weren't really interested and would prefer to settle matters with the use of guns not words. As such I saw little encouragement to continue negociations at that point.