[Macros]

first off, people who have played before only.
Second off, you have to be able to get online at least once every 24 hours.

We'll be using www.gamesbyemail.com to adjudicate so the 24 hour deadline can not be altered.

Brood pm'd a few people earlier and suggested a 10/30 min game, and brood, myself and std tested it. 30 mins is not feasable as a full game would take too long. ten mins simply isnt enough time to diplome properly.

So, we're going to set it at a 24 hour deadline, but as soon as the last set of orders is in it auto resolves, so the initial turns can be rushed through in an hour no problem.

we want 7 for a standard game. I considered the possibility of (in the cases of the low weekend acess lkike dibs) people teaming up and sharing an e-mail address to play.

its a good system once you get into it. their inbuilt chat is a little sluggish for realtime converrsation, but fine for exchange messages at pm rate, so those without msn/aim wont be disadvantaged.

(diplomacy is called politics on gamesbyemail and I'll be setting up the game and randomising countries before, we'll explain how to log on once we get enough interest)

[Grief]

Edit, actually, gonna have to stay out.
Just isnt feasible atm.

[caladanbrood]

Obviously, I'm in;)

To those who I sent a PM to earlier today - this is the continuation of that

[Tapper]

First: I pity poor ST to be named std by you.

Second, I love to be in... but I see 24h being a massive timedrainage, especially in the later stages, and with Mafia, dip 3.0, Adjudicator, a social life and mmorpg playing, this is going to mess too much with my spare time. Or I'll play more at work, but my current productivity is already beneath par, so I work overtime nowadays.

I'm game for it, but only in the holiday season

[Macros]

cull the mmorpg

[Tapper]

Macros, on Nov 5 2008, 08:00 PM, said:

cull the mmorpg

Wish i could, but I'll have angry Danes on my doorstep if I did .
Or rather, I';m afraid of going cold turkey.

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Im in, been using the website for some time so Im happy. The site allows PMs/convos on it, which makes things easier too. Im around at least for a bit every day for ages, so shall we begin soon?

[Macros]

as soon as we get 7

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Aye aye, capn maccy. How many we on atm then? I count 4 here, but Id imagine someone like IH would be up for it

[Sir Thursday]

Well seeing as I pwned Broody and Maccy this afternoon, I guess I'd better play...give them a chance for revenge.


Sir Thursday

[Thelomen Toblerone]

Excellent, that makes 5 and possibly 6. Come on chaps, roll up!

[Macros]

pwned because me and brood were so intent on kicking the shiut outa each other you snuck in!!!

[Sir Thursday]

You have to tailor your strategies to your opponents, everyone knows that .

[caladanbrood]

Our arses were utterly kicked by STds... I guess a problem most people have a some point in their lives.

[Jump Around]

I would be in, although I fell 24h turns are a bit fast, I'm willing to try.

[Macros]

the beausty is if we're all online we can do a turn in half an hour if we decide we're happy with our moves.
once the last set of orders is comitted it resolves.

and exampple game:
http://www.gamesbyem...olitics#Preview

just to demonstrate how the interface works. theres a public chat window on the right, then if you want to communicate privately with any nation, simply double click on their name (4 above the map, 3 below)
In this preview when you submit a set of orders it jumps to the next nation, but in a real game it submits and tells yo who we are waiting on.
You can change orders up until the last submit occurs.
Once all orders are in, the map changes to the move phase for you to study (i screen dumped it just for my own leaky heads sake) then you resolve and start your next move.
Note the timer resets when the last set of orders gets submitted, not when you click resolve, so dont be surprised if you resolve and find a few hours already gone


ETA:
thats 5 definates
(me, brood, ja, std and toby) tappers still an unknown.

how the game set up works - I set up the game, input all your e-mails and names, you then recieve an e-mail with a password. You go to games by mail and login with the password they gave you, then game on.

This post has been edited by Macros: 06 November 2008 - 11:37 AM

[Jump Around]

Haha, I can imagine myself having different chat windows open and type "OK, stupid Germany is falling iin my trap and is agreeing to the fake plan I proposed" in the wrong one.

[Macros]

so you intend to betray germany.................interesting

[Tapper]

Ah well, what the fuck, sign me up. I'll warn you all straightaway that I will not spend hours on the game, though... most of my diploming will be done with single-syllable messages, like:

Yes. No. Fuck. Peace? Die!

If I get creative, I might include Bastard as well.

Oki, I kid. But i won't type official treaties or letter sized proposals/answers. If that's not your fancy, do feel free to search for someone else

[Jump Around]

Or we just gang up on you