Diplomacy?

[merlinofchaos]

I've set up a private Diplomacy judge on my server, and now have a couple of games running on it. I've got one open game if anyone's interested in playing, and if more than enough people are interested, more games can be created (tho I think I will not play more than 2).

One advantage to my diplomacy server is that any game I am signed up for as a player or an observer, I have scripts that will autogenerate mapit maps. If interested, the server's address is judge@logrus.com, and information on using a judge can be found at http://www.diplom.org/Online/judge.html. Since it's a private judge, the games do not show up on the master judge list, so those resources don't apply.

Comments

[animated-max.livejournal.com]

Me! I would play. I might have to go and learn the rules first, but that's ok, I can do that.

[merlinofchaos]

Sign yourself up! There's a newbie guide on that page that gives the basics for how to use the judge.

Maps will be generated to http://www.logrus.com/~merlin/diplomacy and just click on the game name to get the full history; the map won't be generated for the game until all 7 players are signed up and the game starts.

Ignore all the stuff about public servers and dedication in the judge; we'll ignore that stuff, since we'll all be friends or at least friends of friends.

[animated-max.livejournal.com]

If it's on a private server, how do I sign up? I don't understand! Too much information!

This is so hard!

Waaaah!

[merlinofchaos]

The server's addess is 'judge@logrus.com' -- all interaction will be via email to that address.

First you'll email it with the register command (look up the guide for how to; you can put in fake info, I don't care, but the judge will at least check to make sure it appears valid so phone numbers need to be in the right format, etc) and then you would enter the game using the signon command.

The game name is 'merlin1', so once you're registered the signon command would be "signon ?merlin1 <select ... >" -- the ? means that you want to be assigned a country. you'll immediately want to use the 'set preference command' in the same message as the signon. You probably want to put Austria, Germany and Italy in your last 3 and hope that you don't get stuck with one of them.

[toddk.livejournal.com]

Heh. Been a long time since I played, but yeah, the edges of the board tended to be better starting positions. The middle tends to get poached.