Author Topic: Anyone up for a game of Diplomacy? (Read 9254 times)

Isildur · « **on:** August 27, 2015, 06:13:41 PM »

Awhile back a number of us played a online game of Diplomacy and it was a blast. Would anyone be interested in playing a game? I think I found another online Diplomacy program that should work great. Just need six more players for a full game!

Quick question for those interested in playing... Do you guys have any preference to how long you have to turn in orders?

Drrek · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2015, 06:59:20 PM »

I've never played diplomacy but I've always been interested.

wyatt_marcum · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2015, 08:46:25 AM »

I would love to play.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #3 on:** August 29, 2015, 01:56:23 AM »

I also really enjoyed that last game of Diplomacy and have thought about playing again now that I'm in Indonesia. Put me down as interested

Isildur · « **Reply #4 on:** August 29, 2015, 03:02:06 PM »

Awesome! So far we have three players, we need four more!

Drrek · « **Reply #5 on:** August 29, 2015, 03:31:41 PM »

Quote from: Isildur on August 29, 2015, 03:02:06 PM

Awesome! So far we have three players, we need four more!

Don't you mean 4? Who from this thread aren't you counting?

Isildur · « **Reply #6 on:** August 30, 2015, 04:15:50 PM »

Quote from: Drrek on August 29, 2015, 03:31:41 PM

Quote from: Isildur on August 29, 2015, 03:02:06 PM
Awesome! So far we have three players, we need four more!

Don't you mean 4? Who from this thread aren't you counting?

You're right, we have four players and need three more! I can't count

slugfencer · « **Reply #7 on:** September 10, 2015, 04:59:28 PM »

I would play again. It was fun last time.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #8 on:** September 20, 2015, 09:52:17 AM »

I have a guy that goes to church with me here in Indonesia (named Donovan) that likes to play Diplomacy. He'd like to join our game. So with Slugfencer, that would be 6 guys.

I have a guy that works with me here at the school (named Greg) who also would like to play, but he's only played one time and really just learned how to play because they didn't finish. So he's concerned that he might not be able to hang with seasoned players. I've played other strategy games with him though (like RISK 2210A.D.) and I think he could handle it if you guys were OK with a relative noob being in the game.

If so, that would give us the full 7 players and we could start soon.

wyatt_marcum · « **Reply #9 on:** September 20, 2015, 10:44:27 AM »

I'm a relative noob as well. I've only played like 4 games.

Drrek · « **Reply #10 on:** September 20, 2015, 03:01:40 PM »

I'm a noob as well, having played exactly 0 games.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #11 on:** September 20, 2015, 08:59:06 PM »

Well it sounds like noobs are welcome then. I'll tell my co-worker that he's welcome to join, and that means we are ready to begin.

How do we want to do countries? Usually each person submits their top 3 choices, and then we try to give everyone one of those. If you don't have a preference, then feel free to just say that. It makes it easier to work out if there's 1 or 2 people who don't care what country they get.

The other alternative would be to just randomly assign countries. What does everyone prefer?

wyatt_marcum · « **Reply #12 on:** September 20, 2015, 11:45:03 PM »

Russia
Turkey
Austria. but if I am the only one that wants certain one, random works.

Isildur · « **Reply #13 on:** September 20, 2015, 11:51:01 PM »

Awesome that we have enough players! I'll try and get something organized in the next couple of days. I'm pretty swamped at school right now.

I'm down for random countries but it doesn't really matter to me!

slugfencer · « **Reply #14 on:** September 21, 2015, 05:55:00 PM »

I would do whatever everyone else wants. If you want my 3 countries they are: Germany Austria and italy.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #15 on:** September 22, 2015, 08:06:08 AM »

I'm also up for random if needed. If we pick countries, I'd prefer to not be in the England, France, Germany triangle since I was up there last time. So I guess I'd go with Turkey, Russia, Italy.

What should I do about the other 2 guys that wanted to play here? Should I have them join the forum here, or just wait until Isildur sets up the actual Diplomacy game and have them just connect over there?

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #16 on:** September 23, 2015, 02:54:47 AM »

I just heard from Donovan, and his top 3 choices are England, Turkey, and Russia.

So far looking at preferences shared, it looks like everyone could get their top pick if we did the following:
Wyatt - Russia (1st)
Slugfencer - Germany (1st)
Prof U - Turkey (1st)
Donovan - England (1st)
Isildur - Whatever's left (no pref)
Drrek - ??
Greg - ??

wyatt_marcum · « **Reply #17 on:** September 23, 2015, 09:07:08 AM »

4 people getting their first picks? that is very convenient.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #18 on:** September 24, 2015, 03:52:19 AM »

I just heard from Greg yesterday, and he said he doesn't have any preferences for countries. So as long as Drrek wants either Austria, France, or Italy, then everyone will get their first pick of countries.

Wyatt - Russia (1st)
Slugfencer - Germany (1st)
Prof U - Turkey (1st)
Donovan - England (1st)
Isildur - Whatever's left (no pref)
Greg - Whatever's left (no pref)
Drrek - ??

Drrek · « **Reply #19 on:** September 24, 2015, 11:24:33 AM »

I can take France.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #20 on:** September 24, 2015, 08:27:11 PM »

OK, so I went to random.org to determine the last two countries (Austria & Italy). Since Austria came first alphabetically, I focused on that one. I figured that I'd just randomly generate an integer for both Greg and Isildur, and then whoever was higher would get Austria. The numbers turned out to be Greg (70) and Isildur (32). Therefore Greg got Austria.

So now that all countries are assigned, when do we start?

Greg - Austria
Donovan - England
Drrek - France
Slugfencer - Germany
Isildur - Italy
Wyatt - Russia
Prof U - Turkey

Isildur · « **Reply #21 on:** September 25, 2015, 07:52:37 PM »

I'll send out the info tonight! Hopefully we can have everything setup and started by Sunday.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #22 on:** September 25, 2015, 08:36:30 PM »

Quote from: Isildur on September 25, 2015, 07:52:37 PM

I'll send out the info tonight! Hopefully we can have everything setup and started by Sunday.

What website is the game going to run on? Should we all go there and make an account already so that we'll be ready?

wyatt_marcum · « **Reply #23 on:** September 25, 2015, 09:10:38 PM »

I dont know what is going to be used, but may I suggest http://www.playdiplomacy.com/ ? It is the one that I use to play diplomacy.

Prof Underwood · « **Reply #24 on:** September 25, 2015, 09:45:21 PM »

Last game we used http://www.gamesbyemail.com/Games/Politics

And that worked well, but Isildur said that he had found an even better place, so I'm looking forward to seeing what it is.

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