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Diplomacy (update: live game Saturday?)
Slick:
I'm just going to post this a little late, but if you want to play, please familiarize yourself with the rules. This isn't an internet flash game with an in-game tutorial, it is just an internet implementation of a board game that has been around since back when people used to use the postal service. The rules are not very lengthy to read through.
I do not want to discourage people from playing, but if you do not know how to play it will not be very fun and you will just be gobbled up by a neighbouring power fairly quickly. So read the rules or you will be sad!
Rules link 1
Rules link 2
If there are still people not in a game who would like to be in a game, go ahead and make one. I would make one for you but I do not want to be in every game, so just make one and post the link here.
MrMonk:
--- Quote from: ruyi on 17 Apr 2009, 21:02 ---Hi MrMonk! Welcome to this subforum. How were these games organized? And what country was this taking place in?
--- End quote ---
The games were hosted by the fellow that ran the newsletter. My games were in "Claw and Fang". I think it was based in Sacramento, CA, although there were other newsletters that I had heard about. There was a small entry fee for each game to cover costs. IIRC, countries were assigned randomly, with players taken from the top of a waiting list. All players were in the 48 states, maybe Canada, too. I don't think overseas mail traveled quickly enough for the game schedule.
I would play here, but I can't keep to the schedule.
Slick:
So what was this newsletter? Was it only a bunch of Diplomacy games or was it a newsletter on other things that happened to feature diplomacy?
edit: I totally found your old games! They are online here.
MrMonk:
Amazing! (the stuff that people will keep). Most of my moves, and all of my endgames, are missing from the archive. I actually remember some of the names: Mike Hudec, Eva Lydick (the only woman in the C&F games), Sheldon Kahan, Ed Karlinski. I've also effectively dated myself.
Slick:
It is OK Paul is all kinds of old and everyone loves him.
I am kind of jealous of a time when someone would have to be that dedicated to print and mail out a little newsletter about a game regularly. I guess there are people dedicated to coding and debugging phpdiplomacy, but that seems much less romantic.
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