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13 Dec 11 UTC

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Ancient World?

http://www.dipwiki.com/index.php?title=Ancient_World
This seems to be a very balanced map I would however make a few changes if I was to try to put this on this site.

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13 Dec 11 UTC

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spiral of doom

http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4714
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03 Dec 11 UTC

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New Variant? enhanced naval combat ideas

Hi folks,
I have an idea for a variant that might be able to improve some of our large games, particularly the WWIV map.

Its conception has come from previous discussions particularly about gameplay being affected by lack of sea-zones or ease of setting up a stalemate. Please read below:

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Jonnikhan (1554

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Need a replacement!!!

We've been waiting to start this game for eight days. 7-day phases allow for the busiest person to find the time to play. Cuba never showed up and we need a replacement player. Please check out gameID=4575 and join!

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13 Dec 11 UTC

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1 missing to start

http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4634
cmon :)

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16 Nov 11 UTC

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Euro-crisis

what do you think about the eurocrisis ?

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08 Dec 11 UTC

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Classic with Switzerland.

Hi! Nobody ever thought of doing a variant of the classical with Switzerland as a SC? I think it would be very fun the struggle to control it between France and Germany and also Italy and Austria.

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Grand Admiral Thrawn (1207

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07 Dec 11 UTC
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The insult other people thread.

A fun thread to throw humorous kind natured insults at one another. Keep it PG 13 and moderately decent so it is fun and not mean.

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11 Dec 11 UTC

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Viking map Questions?

In http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4511#gamePanel we just had a extention on the phases. Due to a CD'ed France. He has been on but not playing. I seen there was ask of Oli to help move another game on after a 3rd restart. Has this been solved or will it keep restarting or 5 day phases?

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Decima Legio (1987

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08 Dec 11 UTC

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Rinascimento enlisting

anyone willing to get a Rinascimento game going?
gameID=4606

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06 Dec 11 UTC

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New Economic game.

gameID=4638
Let's see who is the best capitalist.

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Karl Detroit (1167

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09 Dec 11 UTC

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Livematch

gameID=4677 on the fall of american empire map as an quick one on one game. Phase length is set by 6 hours but it meant to play quicker.

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09 Dec 11 UTC

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Game not processing

http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4556

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El Cremoso (1728

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08 Dec 11 UTC

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Sengoku Gunboat Game

gameID=4664
Sengoku Gunboat
8 players, 12 hr. turns, good times.
Let's get this going.

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OstrichFace (1265

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08 Dec 11 UTC

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Solo Cuba Win

First Cuba solo on this server in American Empire IV: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=3561

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sebastian1988 (955

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07 Dec 11 UTC

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new game

new game gunboat! south america 8 players. http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=4641

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Spartan22 (1883

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07 Dec 11 UTC

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Replacement needed!

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butterhead (1272

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25 Nov 11 UTC
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Italian Team Game- Bidding wars revisited!!!

So we once had an Italy team game where the team captains bid on other countries to be on there team with a point-type system, but it never quite made it. I want to retry it.

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butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

So- there will be 3 captains(Venice, Stato, and Napoli), they will start with 100

... the bidding will start with Napoli, he will bid a certain amount on one of the smaller countries(Will go into more detail on the order the countries will be bid on in a moment)... He can either bid(atleast 1 point) or pass, meaning he wishes not to bid on that country, then the bidding will move to Stato, who can either bid higher than Napoli, or pass on that country, and then the Bid will go to Venice, who has the same options, bid higher, or Pass... bidding will continue until two of the three have passed on a country therefore the third gets that country as a team mate... The bidding will start with a different of the three powers each round(second round Stato, third Venice, then fourth back to Napoli)...
The order that countries will be bid on is:
Turkey
France
Ferrara
Siena
Pisa
Savoia
Genova
Milano
Firenze

Once a captain runs out of points, he is no longer in the bidding process and his team will be set at that number of people. If someone bets 100 on a player, they will automatically get them as their team mate(but that would make them there only team mate).

mongoose998 (1344 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

now you say "on a player". by this do you mean on a nation/home supply center? or like are actual players that clicked 'join game' sitting on the sidelines waiting to be bid on?

butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

like the nations themselves. so say Stato wants firenze, he would bid on him...

kaug (1220 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

but the players should be determined as well, because maybe someone chooses milan whom you think is an awful player and do not want on your team so you can decide not to bid on that nation.

adammaa (1323 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

Even though i don't talk much around here on this forum thing, This sounds like a great idea to me.... I think you would have to be careful though of who you pick just becuase of their postion compared to your postion. Like you getting a team mate that Prolly won't be able to do much and maybe could just be preventing your growth. So you would have to go elsewhere that will be slower to expand, while maybe your team mate will end up as lunch if you don't protect? I haven't looked at the map yet so i could see if what i said could actualy happen.

butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC
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@Kaug- if you don't want to pick a player because you think they have low skill, then you can simply not pick them, but I feel the skill will be decent enough, and I won't allow anyone with a reliability rating lower than 85-90% join this game.

butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

Indeed adammaa the balance on this map is very important, so picking the right nations is key. I know in our first attempt, we had two teams of 3 and a team of 6, but the team of 6 was much smaller nations, so balancing larger nations with centralized ones is a good plan.

Guaroz (2030 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

Nice idea.
What if all 3 powers get to 0 and the bid is not over (say Milano and Firenze are still to be bought)?
What if two bids on the same small power are even and both captains involved refuse to raise their bid? How do we break the tie?
A team of x players is committed to have a x-way draw among themselves? What if someone gets defeated? The game is over when the players of only one team are on the board, right?
Players are allowed to grab teammates' SCs for tactical purposes? (supposing this should be agreed)

butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

A) If all three powers get to 0 and the bid is not over, those remaining will be free to pick which team they join, but they will not be allowed to join the same team(Ex: Milano chooses to join Venice, Firenze HAS to pick either Stato or Napoli)
B) There will not be any even bids on a power, with this system, the next bidder in line MUST either bid higher or pass on the opportunity to get that power
C)yes, say a team has 3 players, they must eliminate the other 9 powers, then draw among themselves. If a player on the winning team gets defeated, than the team just draws one man down from where they started. the game is over when only one team remains. players CAN grab teammates' centers If and only if it is agreed on by both the powers involved in the process.

adammaa (1323 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

I don't see too well, how all 3 powers can run out of bid points. becuase let's say Stato is out of points, Venice has 20 and Napoli has 20. They are still at pisa. Venice ends up getting pisa but uses up the last bit of points and now Napoli is left as the only one with points. Wouldn't then Napoli gets to have the rest of them?

When you bid, do you lose those points even if you don't win the bid? do you keep your points until you actualy win that player?

And would you Think of adding a Minimum bid of 5

or something? In case it comes down to the situation one great power is left with points so you could still end up having some players picking who they want?

drano019 (2710 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

adammaa - It's possible. Trust me. We tried this on old OliDip and it happened. What happens is that one captian bids HUGE on a player and almost runs out, and the other 2 run up the bids on players until only 1 player has a lot left.

An example: assume Stato and Napoli have 10

left each, and Venice has 60. He can bid 11 on 5 players in a row and there's nothing Napoli/Stato can do about it. That puts half the board on Venice's team.

adammaa (1323 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

I guess it's hard to figure a way to stop it? Actualy are you looking to stop something like that? Actualy instead of minimum, what about maximum bid?

butterhead (1272 )
25 Nov 11 UTC

I was thinking of that(because I was in that game with the game drano was talking about) but I'll get into that in a second. also, adammaa, it is possible that all three could run out, but highly unlikely, much more likely that 2 will run out and one will have enough to bid on the rest...
As for the way to avoid the problem with Venice out-bidding the others, really what you have to do is measure how valuable a player is for your team, and bid carefully, enough to scare off other players but low enough to not bid so much you can't get other players you want... not sure how else you could stop it, max bids would just kind of screw it up a bit...

drano019 (2710 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

That sounds great butter, its when bidding wars happen that the game gets skewed. Alas, I dint think there's any real way to avoid it guaranteed. I'd suggest you pick captains wisely though

gopher27 (1606 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

If you want to steal my ideas from that train wreck of a process, I think you should keep the little guys as the bidders/captains.

gopher27 (1606 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

Venice/Naples/Pope is still pretty uneven. My whole point in attempting to have a bidding process was to deal with the fact that Venice and Naples are so much more powerful than everyone else.

butterhead (1272 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

It would either have to be the three biggest(the 4 center powers) or the three smallest(France, Turkey, and one of either Pisa-Siena-Ferrara) to keep the balance of power fairly even... but the point behind Stato-Venice-Naples as captains was so that no two of them could be on the same team... the last thing we need is a Venice-Naples-Firenze-Milano team to come out, that would completely destroy Stato and all of the 1 center powers around them...

Decima Legio (1987 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

what if someone does not behave as a team player?

EvW (1771 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

I'd like to join ;) Sounds interesting.

butterhead (1272 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

Then the rest of the field will generously hold as the other players of that team carve him up between themselves. but I am going to try my best to gaurentee quality players join that I know will behave as a team player even if they have never played a team game before.

Grand Admiral Thrawn (1207 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

I may join.

Alcuin (1454 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

I'm interested

Neil (957 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

I'd love to.

SacredDigits (978 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

So, if you can't find quality players, any chance I can sneak in?

ezpickins (1717 )
26 Nov 11 UTC

I'm in

butterhead (1272 )
27 Nov 11 UTC

Ok, I have checked everyone who has shown interest, and they all have over 90% Reliability(most of them have 100), so the list is:
1. butterhead
2. EvW
3. Diplomat33
4. Alcuin
5. Neil
6. SacredDigits
7. ezpickins
looking for 5 more daring people.
Guaroz, Kaug, Mongoose, Drano, Gopher, you guys interested?

drano019 (2710 )
27 Nov 11 UTC

sure, why not. lets just hope it doesn't get too skewed.

Guaroz (2030 )
27 Nov 11 UTC

I'm in.

Guaroz (2030 )
27 Nov 11 UTC

Question (perhaps I've missed it): Will the country assignment be random? Will the game be paused - complete the auction - and then unpaused? Phase and bet?

butterhead (1272 )
27 Nov 11 UTC

Yes, the game will be paused for the auction, the phases will be 48 hours, and since it's experimental, bet will be 5

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as for the country assignment, yes, it will be completely random.
1. butterhead
2. EvW
3. Diplomat33
4. Alcuin
5. Neil
6. SacredDigits
7. ezpickins
8. drano019
9. Guaroz

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ezpickins (1717

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08 Dec 11 UTC

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Team Game and/or A Treaties Game

Is anyone interested in either?

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Spartan22 (1883

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07 Dec 11 UTC

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Chaos game needs replacement!

game hasn't even started so please join :D
gameID=4587

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07 Dec 11 UTC

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New Modern Diplomacy Game

There is a new modern Diplomacy game with a 2-day phase.
gameID=4644

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mongoose998 (1344

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Variant Idea: ClassicTransform

I think the Classic map would be very nifty with a Transform function. It would really keep all the players on their toes.
IE: Fall 1901 Italy Convoys to Tunis. France thinks "oh, just a lepanto, im ok"
Spring Italy transforms it to a fleet, oh noes!
thoughts?

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wrighty77 (1179

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05 Dec 11 UTC

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Build Anywhere - Can't Build!

I'm playing as Britain in gameID=4478 and have 9 units, but 12 scs. The game has just turned to builds but I have only been given 2 new builds. I thought in a build anywhere then I would be able to build 3 this turn as I have more empty scs.
Any thoughts or help appreciated!

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Spartan22 (1883

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06 Dec 11 UTC

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2 more for a chaos game!!!

gameID=4587

Come on guys, only two more!

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El Cremoso (1728

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06 Dec 11 UTC

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Sengoku Map at 9pm CST

Need 7 more players for a fast Sengoku game. 5 min turns, chat allowed, 5 pts to play.
gameID=4637

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Jonnikhan (1554

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05 Dec 11 UTC

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Viking game stuck in loop

gameID=4519
One player has CD'd and the system keeps restarting, waiting for a replacement. We are now experiencing our third reset. Oli, could you bypass this?

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Spartan22 (1883

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06 Dec 11 UTC

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5 more needed!

gameID=4587

Only 5 more needed for chaos! 16 hours left :D

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Spartan22 (1883

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05 Dec 11 UTC

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Replacement needed!

gameID=4555
Burgundy is in CD so we need a replacement!
It's a viking game public press

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Spartan22 (1883

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04 Dec 11 UTC

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Chaos game! 15 more needed!

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Spartan22 (1883

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05 Dec 11 UTC

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chaos game!

8 more needed!!
gameID=4587

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