If you read the comments by the CDZ team-members during the planning stages of the game, you can infer that it is probably not CDZ's indecision or slowness that is holding up the treaty. It is Quatronia. CDZ scoffs at Democracy, scoffs at polling, and scoffs at bureaucracy in general. They are perfectly capable of giving Quatronia a yes or no answer by the end of this turn. They have been 1st or 2nd team to act almost every turn since the game started. They are decisive, and they probably don't need anymore time to discuss anything. It is Quatronia who needs the time... Time to convince CDZ to sign a side deal.
What THEY want, is to get CDZ to join the ETTT, AND agree to a side alliance with CDZ, all in one shot... What WE want, is for CDZ to sign the ETTT now, and for the Q and CDZ to continue along in endless side treaty negotiations that never come to fruition. That way the Q wll have to fall back on us as their best buddy, not CDZ.
We SHOULD NOT give Quatronia additional time to arrange a side deal with CDZ. Let them do that AFTER the ETTT is signed. The lack of pressure will make their negotiations tougher, and may ultimately lead to the failure of their side deal... which is exactly what WE want. As long as the Q can hold the ETTT over CDZ's head as a carrot, they have alot of leverage to set up some sweet side deal with CDZ, that may ultimately end up biting us in the end.
AND we don't need to apologize to them. IMO, cavscout will interpret that as weakness, and Provolution will take it as a license to dilly-dally and engage in endless negotiation over minor details.
They are NOT offended by our last message. They say they are "confused" and they "don't want to be hasty." So their feathers are not ruffled from us being pushy, rather, they don't feel the same sense of urgency that we do, and they want to know why we think the situation is so urgent...
In truth, they know why we feel the situation is urgent and they do not. It is because we dont want CDZ or Merlot to meet the Mavericks. That would be a disaster, because it will push them into a 3-way alliance against us. The reason the Q are not worried about it, is because they know where Merlots boat is, and presumably, that CDZ does not have one. Also, they are toying with the idea of sinking them to prevent contact. We should encourage this, for the reasons I have mentioned before.
This is the perfect opportunity to broach the subject of workboat sinking, because Quatronia brought it up. We should tell the Q that we were indeed concerned that Mavs would meet Merlot or CDZ and for an opposing alliance, and that was the reason for our sense of urgency. However, if they are giving their firm commitment to sink any CDZ or Merlot workboats prior to them making contact with Mavs, then we are happy to wait for them to seal the agreement of CDZ. On the other hand, if they can not give that commitment, then we will offer the ETTT to Merlot (who would almost certainly sign immediately) or Mavs, at the end of this (or next) turn. One problem is, that it is going to take a pretty good explanation from the Q to CDZ why they sunk their workboat if they still expect them to join the alliance after.
This is what I think should be conveyed in our response to Quatronia.
) Anyway the last thing we need is for us and The Q to be offering different alliance partners the same treaty.
Teams need time to deliberate things. We think CDZ should be given more than 48 hours during the workweek to make their decision. Sure, if it become apparent they are stalling then we just walk away and make an offer to the Mavs. 
