I have my Monopoly Rulebook here. I see no mention of anything like a draw in it. So, unlike Diplomacy, a Monopoly game can end in only one way: one player win, the others lose. So in Monopoly you can’t play for the Draw in order to avoid a (whether big or little) loss of money, cigarettes, jelly beans, hard candies or whatever else you bet to pay your buy-in. You have only one way to walk to have something back: win the game. It’s like tennis: either you win or you lose, you don’t change what you do because you bet 10 candies or 10 dollars or 10 thousands: the only way to have them back is to win.
“As you said Guaroz, if we play Monopoly for $5000…” I didn’t say it for Monopoly.
Diplomacy is different because its Rulebook says you got 2 positive results: Win and Draw.
Example. Like never before, today 7 children decide for the first time to rate their weekly game adding a buy-in of 10 candies and they decide that the Pot-Rule is what we call WTA.
Well, unlike Monopoly, they have EIGHT different ways to have their candies back: win, 2wd, 3wd, 4wd, 5wd, 6wd and 7wd. Obviously someone could argue that the only real draw is 7wd, because in each one of the other 7 ways you’d have back more candies than you bet, so you’d win something. See? Something already changed just betting sweeties. You have 1 way to keep your candies and 7 different ways to win some. That's why children would make different decision than before.
While this addition (the buy-in, the Pot and the Pot-Rule) is equal for each child, hence it’s objective, it’s not equal the way the children perceive the addition. Say one unlucky child is diabetic: he couldn’t care less about losing or winning candies, so I guess his playing won’t change that much. Well: this is the subjective side. Similarly, other children could have different degrees in how they like candies. Anyway it’s not unlikely that from today on you’ll see these children often making different decisions than before: the game has changed. (Unless they’re all diabetic, but in this case, why would they be willing to bet candies?)
And yes, PPSC is even more different from Original game. I agree. There’s no need you remind it to me again. No need to do examples with tennis betting 2 $ per each of the 5 sets. PPSC is undisputedly different from the Original Game.
What I want to know from you is why you think that WTA would be the Original Game: here we’re disagreeing, not on PPSC.
So I have to ask you again:
If, when there’s an addition to the Original Diplomacy Game, the players’ behavior changes, then isn’t it a clear evidence that the game has changed?