It'd be nice if holes were filled. I mean 13-14-16-18-20 players map. :)

struth! I mean why not have a version of pur that has 100 players??? Hell to start, but... why not set the goal to have a variant for each number up to 100?

Seriously this is a bit of a joke, but why not? I'm sure that there were many periods of history that had powers/potential powers competing than just the standard 7 we tend to fixate upon...

I think we like 7 because we know it works... but how do we know that 14 doesn't work just as welll? anyway just a couple of meandering thoughts... I going to bed.

Well if someone wants to fix and finish the map I was making(I never got a reply on what was wrong with it but something funky was up with the map whenever I tried editing it on the lab and I don't have the time to work on it) It's there on the lab!!! haha.

100 players?
Well, I'm not a maps-creator, but I believe it wouldn't be very difficult (maybe just very long) taking the WWIV map, use its 244 SCs like a "Crowded" and make up these 2 Variants:
- 122 Countries of 2 SCs
- 61 Countries of 4 SCs

Also, we could cut out 4 SCs and have just 240 SCs. Nice number. We could make 8 interesting variants:
- 120 Countries of 2 SCs
- 80 Countries of 3 SCs
- 60 Countries of 4 SCs
- 48 Countries of 5 SCs
- 40 Countries of 6 SCs
- 30 Countries of 8 SCs
- 24 Countries of 10 SCs
- 20 Countries of 12 SCs

Don't you like "Full Crowded"? We could add 1 SC somewhere to have a 245 SCs map.
Now you can have 49 neutral SCs in a map with 49 Players, each one starting with 4 units (49+49*4=245).

Chaos Haven? 102 Players.

More ideas?

You'll never get 100 players... And if you do, there's gonna be many CD's...

~1 in 3.5 players on the site would need to join the game to make a 100 player game.

I am sure you could probably get it if you literrally PMed everyone on the site and the variant was new so Oli had the message advertising it at the top.

Chaos WW IV, 244 players. With public press only :)

Any bets on how long it would take for a "longest game ever" to start?

Any bets on how long it would take for a "longest game ever" to end?

Far too long for me to want to join it.

indeed gman!

but a hundred man map would be good for the "generals/leaders/diplomats" type game that was discussed on that other thread (each country being played by more than one person)

Don't forget Pirates is for 13 players.

How did I miss that :~?

do we have stats on how many people have8 0+, 90+ and 98= reliability ratings?that would help us judge what is the maximun variant size.

@Butterhead, what precisely was the problem with your variant?

I think 10-20-player games make for some really exciting game play and would love to see more of these. I'm hoping Airborne has time to create the Known World 901 variants he was mentioning, as that's a nice map, both size and layout-wise, for 15-20-players.

I'd play a hundred player map. That would be a blast.

If anyone has any ideas for a variant I would be happy to help them make it (as long as it doesn't require any complicated coding)

I found two variants at Play Diplomacy Online that would be very good if they could be adapted here. The first is a Westeros variant that many people have been asking about: http://www.playdiplomacy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=29294

And the there is a variant called Versailles, in which each player controls a major power (3 centers) and a minor power (one center). The map for Versailles is here: http://playdiplomacy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=71&t=6270

@amisond- A) it's for 14 players, but the website only has 13 listed(something happened when Oli brought it over) and I don't know if there is an error in the code because of that or not. B) when you go to edit the map, it appears as though some borders got messed up and borders are erased(Spain Portugal for example) and I am unsure how to fix it, C) the map is the wrong name. a minor fix, but still an error that needs to be fixed(It says butterheads map, it should be called Congested)... I think that was all, but I could be wrong. there was no major code changes or anything, only added a bunch of centers and new powers and a few new territories and such.

of course it looks like Oli may have taken it off of the lab completely since I never finished it.