Is this still on the cards?

I'm still in!

give me a couple of months so i can requalify as a big hitter. my ranking took a big hit after i playtested the spain variant without knowing it was a ranked game

I have a fair amoung going on at the moment in real life. Would love to see this game happen, but does anyone else have bandwidth to pull together and kick off?

I would like to participate, I'm assuming my vDip ranking is above qualifying.

Hello everyone, I have decided to take up Amby's call and self-appoint myself organizer of this game. I won't be playing in it, but it seems a very exciting thing to watch!

Please correct any errors. Especially if you are in the "not sure" category, and you want to be moved to interested. Otherwise your inaction will lead to you being classified as "declined".

Additionally, in the interest of keeping this thread ~somewhat~ clean, please just PM me changes you want to make to your status. To make sure I don't miss a PM or something, I will post the FINAL DRAFT list on 2024-01-26 (goal: around 0100 UTC, but definitely before 2359).

Unless people want something else, it sounded like an acceptable-to-a-plurality-option was:

Map:Haven
Pot: WTA
Bid: 45
Phase: 2 days
Press: Rulebook, with the idea that people will ready retreats and builds to progress the game a bit faster
Extend: Always
Excused NMR: 1
Regain after: 10
Country: Random
Draw votes: Hidden
Anonymity: Anon

Other rules:
Have list of alternates ready to take over in the event of a CD. Hopefully this won't be necessary though.


~~~~~~The list~~~~~~~
-----[INTERESTED]-----
kaner406
The Ambassador
gopher27
drano019
Dejan0707
GOD
G-Man
Samj
Taishi Ci
Battalion
JECE
xXDoritoJunkieXx
ubercacher16
Orange
MiraiNikkiSan
Siegmar Bruggen
braxton
Xenon Radon
CoffeeAndKeybaords
Chuttbugger
alarix

-----[NOT SURE]-----
ingebot
jason4747
Mitomon
Agnaar
AJManso4
erikip107
JohnyD

-----[DECLINED]-----
Mercy
JGLikesStratGames

-----[ALTERNATES]-----(will join if needed)
Leif_Syverson
Mouse

Unfortunately, I think it makes sense with 21 currently interested to stick with 19 player Haven. This does mean some people won't quite make the cut, and that is not necessarily the best, but I think it will mean this game gets going quicker vs. waiting around for 29 more people to join a Divided States game. Additionally, those who don't quite make the cut can still serve as alternates in the event of a CD. I'm open to feedback on this point, but I think it is an unfortunate reality that anywhere there is a cutoff, someone will necessarily be left out.

Haven sounds great to me, as do the settings. I'm still in.

On a quick glance at just what a ridiculous number of webDip points some of you all have, I'm thinking the bid should be more like 250. Thoughts?

Any bid amount is fine with me.

Thanks so much flipster for stepping up. Greatly appreciated!

I'm in for those settings and that variant.

Ah, I did mean to say I was interested! Any map/rules is good to me.

Hi Flipster. I’d be out for Haven (not in the mood), but in for a Modern Europe (20 players). I’m flexible so long as there’s actual diplomacy
:-)

Alright everyone, here is the updated list. I'll give everyone 24 hours to reply to this thread if I need to make any changes to it.

Map:Haven
Pot: WTA
Bid: 45
Phase: 2 days
Press: Rulebook, with the idea that people will ready retreats and builds to progress the game a bit faster
Extend: Always
Excused NMR: 1
Regain after: 10
Country: Random
Draw votes: Hidden
Anonymity: Anon

Other rules:
Have list of alternates ready to take over in the event of a CD. Hopefully this won't be necessary though.


~~~~~~The list~~~~~~~
-----[INTERESTED]-----
kaner406
The Ambassador
gopher27
drano019
Dejan0707
GOD
G-Man
Samj
Taishi Ci
Battalion
JECE
xXDoritoJunkieXx
ubercacher16
Orange
MiraiNikkiSan
erikip107
Siegmar Bruggen
braxton
Xenon Radon
CoffeeAndKeybaords
Chuttbugger
alarix

-----[DECLINED]-----
G-Man
Mercy
ingebot
jason4747
Mitomon
Agnaar
AJManso4
JohnyD
JGLikesStratGames

-----[ALTERNATES]-----(will join if needed)
Leif_Syverson
Mouse

Meanwhile the biggest hitter adds one to the resume...solo on divided states: done!!
(Sorry too busy irl to start another heavy game now, have fun!)

Lets do 1K points buy in

i mean 45 points is no really big hitters, is it

Let's do 500 (I don't have 1000)

Or maybe 2000 vpoints - something like that.

Okay well the problem is I don't have anywhere near that number of points, so I would need someone else to set up the game with that buy-in, and then ask the mods very nicely to make me the game director.

Since I can only start a game with the number of vdip points I have (this is how I picked 45 lol).

The buy in can't be over 300, or there won't be enough people available to play. 250 leaves 20 people able to buy in, and I think it's possible that one person who said they were interested might end up backing out, so I think 250 is what it should be in order to actually make this happen.

Unless there is a consensus among the big hitters that it would be better to do a smaller map with a truly massive buy in. As a non-big hitter myself, I can't comment on what you all desire.

I can do anything less than 1000

I have 1005 points, so anything less than that (preferably a bit less so I can potentially join other games, though)

Aaah, I didn't check this for a while and it seems I have missed it. Good luck boys and gals! Let the best player win!

You haven't missed it JohnyD! I can move you to [INTERESTED] if you'd like.

The next step though is I need someone with over 250 points available to go through the trouble of starting the game, and asking the mods very nicely to make me the game director.

If someone can volunteer to launch the game, I will send you all of the settings we are going to use.

You can put me as a backup player, if someone goes afk or needs a temporary sub.
There seems to be enough people as primary players for now.
I can send you my email to notify me when you need me, if you want?

If we're betting 250 it would be nice to set the game to PPSC.

Could we not? I'd prefer to avoid a situation where the perverse end game incentives of PPSC effect the outcome.

Yeah, I'm definitely not keen for PPSC. Gave it another go recently and it was very frustrating.

ubercacher16: There is always an incentive in PPSC to go for the win, so wouldn't a true big hitter always go for that? By contrast, I could easily see (self-described) big hitters too scared to go for a win in WTA, afraid that they may lose all of their precious points, or lose interest in a WTA game if they're in a marginal position, since they think that they have nothing to gain from continuing to play.

Battalion: Link?