Set one up penguin. Hope I qualify.

We'll see if we can get enough interest here ->
https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=66062
Code is "elite"

No idea why that was sent anonymously, but I created that (VengefulPenguin43)

Hopefully I qualify, as I have joined. I will leave if I don't meet the standards.

Seems that if you send a link that is for an anonymous game, then your ID is also Anon. 0.0

Not trying to police it too much, just hoping to get people who have experience and are going to play.

That makes sense Specialweek, thanks for letting me know :)

By the way, once I have joined in a sequence of games that 7 players playing 7 classic games at the same time, with everyone played every country exactly once. Maybe you can also arrange such a series of games. :)
(Not must be classic, but also other variants as you wish)

Ironically, I would have joined except for the high buy-in because I don't want a single game to count as much as 8 'normal' games in my numbers. In fact, wouldn't people who play high buy-in games tend to have inaccurate ratings, as a high rating could be the result of a very small number of wins, but just with big pots?

Maybe setting Reliability to 90%+ and minimum phases to 600+ would be a better metric for solid players? But it's all good. Online Dip will never be an exact science :)

The points for buy ins, "webDiplomacy points" are not the same points for rating "vDiplomacy points". Generally highly rated players will have a lot of webdip points just cause they've played a bunch and won more, but you can have some people who have won huge pots but not much so have a lot of webdip points but not much vdip points and a relatively low rating. (Fun fact which nation a person is given is generally selected by webdip point amount minus nations youve already been, in the order the map has things set. Fifty States happens to have things be geographically ordered unlike most for some reason which causes all the good players to be put in the northeast, most of the time.)

I don't think the point pool from the buy in counts towards the match value that is used in determining how much rating one gets/loses when a game ends but that's the one value I don't quite know how it works (other than more players = higher match value)

Oooh, very interesting, I never realized that D-points and V-points are two completely separate things. I always thought that the bet made with D-points was used to calculate the final gain of V-points.

And I just found that when a ranked game is finished, one can click on the V-points gain or loss at the bottom of the game page (to the right of the countries and names), and it opens a page where it is explained how the score was calculated.

This is logical and makes sense, but honestly it's not clear on the website. It's not really explained anywhere, and the page I just found is hidden. High bet games are very rare, probably because people are reluctant to play in a game that they think may reduce their V-rating a lot. And so we all have hundreds of D-points, but this is useless because all games have ~5 D-points bets ahah. I wish the Rating Requirements when creating a game would also include a real Min V-points Requirement.

Thank you for your illuminating remarks, Orange. Now I am only going to create huge bet games and see what happens.

Surprised people don't know that they are different, if you check your profile you can see the two being separate, but I guess it's understandable to confuse them and think your rating points are what you're spending. But yeah, if your rating is higher than ~1300 you probably have more webdip points than you know how to deal with. Like I'm sitting on about 1.7k what am I gonna do with 1.7k

@Orange: Interesting, the country assignment is not true random...

Well, my first sentence was a bit confusing, I knew that D-points and V-points were two separate numbers, but I always thought the amount of D-points that I bet to enter a game had a direct influence on the final gain/loss of V-points. And I believe many people think the same, which is why (to some extent) there are so few high bet games. :/

Yeah, you know, I didn't know that it wasn't true random, but that makes sense because a recently banned multi seemed to get powers near each other in games, with this explanation of how the game decides, that makes sense.

@Jean_Henri, I think you will find it's hard to fill huge bet games. It's already not so easy to fill a game with your desired variant, phase length, WTA vs. PPSC, etc. Making the bet size huge is just another obstacle for some subset of the potential player pool. The goal might be to exclude new players, or low-reliability players, but the effect will be much wider, I expect.

Indeed, because as I said I think many people don't know how D-points and V-points really work (based only my experience though). Let's change the mentalities!
Otherwise, the D-points system is completely useless. For example, according to the site rules, it is impossible to go below 100 D-points. Then, it doesn't make a lot of sense to bet only ~5 points (as it is the case in most games).