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With my time as President of the New Russia over, I'm now playing green in every one of my games. I wonder which power I will be if 56 pointer (gameID=3220) makes.....Indonesia, Manchuria, India(?), Central Asia, South Africa, Catholica, Mexico, USA, Quebec or Canada? That's right, I've tricked you into reading an ad from one of my games.
I've been home to visit my mother. She's dying. She has cancer. I requested pauses in all my games but didn't approach mods because I expect people are civilised enough to grant such pauses. I came back to find that in one game where I was doing excellently, I'd gone into civil disoreder and been taken over, even though I was only away three days. That's much more annoying than all the games where I found myself backstabbed in civil disorder. A curse on all you metagamers.
Hello All, just in the midst of a game where a fleet in Israel supported a fleet from Sinai into Jordan; should this be possible? Just wondering, never played this variant before, and never been in Israel, so I can't be sure if there's some sort of "waterway" from Israel to Jordan that would allow it to support such a move...
I've been listening to Double Fantasy today and I suddenly got the impulse to declare publicly that I can't stand Yoko Ono. It is not without shame, I have the utmost respect for John. Does anyone else suffer from this conflict?
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=2612 anybody wanna tell me why france hasnt just finished germany and won this game already, not that im complaining the longer it goes the more centers Im getting, but still Im confused
A friend of mine can't seem to recive his validation email when registering (he attempted it three times with three different accounts) and his support email failed as well. Anyone any idea as to why?
for instance: SthAmerica has 6 Supply centers adjacent to the single Atlantic province SWI alone. It seems to me that to gain hegemony on this map you either have the good fortune of beginning in Asia or Europe where you simply build armies or you have to get the sea provinces REALLY quickly.
I think that the land battles on this map is quite accurate, the sea provinces are what holds players back - in that they are easy to stalemate these regions.
The standard map has 58 land spaces and 19 sea spaces. Almost a 3:1 ratio. While I haven't counted I am pretty sure that WWIV (and World Diplomacy IX, for that matter) has a far greater than 3:1 land:sea ratio.
It might make it more difficult to 'jump' continents with more sea territories, but I think that the whole Naval aspect of world domination is being underestimated in WWIV. to start with there is vastly more ocean regions on the globe than there are land regions, and while this has been addressed by giving regions like Tahiti and Reunion (ETC) a Supply Center, the whole map is still unbalanced by having a disproportionate amount of SCs on landed continents (straight away disadvantaging powers that begin with the only option of being a naval power)
Consider the Atlantic: (yes sorry SWA not swi) SWA has 5 Sea territories adjacent to it. It has 7 Land territories adjacent to it SIX of which are Supply centers. If a power wants to take SWA then it has to attack a territory that can potentially be held next to indefinitely by a power that has SthAmerican SCs protecting SWA.
My solution would be to cut every sea territory in half and then we might actually have some naval warfare occurring in this variant.
(I like the land based battles, but sea combat is lacking in my perception.)
I agree that there are too few sea territories. But, I would suggest that cutting them in half might not be the right way to do it. My reason for this is that a land stalemate is easier to establish in real life. Stalemate lines located in the middle of the ocean are not very true to life. If anything, fleets should be able to hold off a naval invasion on to land, but permit passage of fleets into the middle ocean. So, I might suggest cutting the middle ocean spaces into thirds or fourths, but leaving the coastal spaces alone.
As far as making it difficult to jump continents. I agree it would take longer to cross the ocean, but that seems realistic also. For any country to mount an invasion on another continent, it would take time. It might make the middle ocean SC's critical strategic objectives. They could be staging areas to create armies for an invasion.
I'm thinking the issue with a more realistic representation of the seas is that the game already takes for-fucking-ever. Not knocking it, but boy did it take some time to finish the one time I tried. (I died in the first 5-6 years for my only defeat; the game ended after 11. I died after a month and a half in the game and the game ended some 4-5 months after it started, and it ended prematurely at that.) So while adding sea spaces would truly make it the ultimate global variant we'd all love to see, it might take some time to get through a game.
because Western Civilization is the only one that matters really. However, does anyone else notice the lack of a Conquests of Qin or an Ascendency or Decline of the Mughals variant?
Everyone knows the concept by now... Team game, where you have a preset alliance that does not change for the duration of the game, and the game cannot end until there is a stalemate line or only one team remains... for this team game, I am looking at Fall of the American Empire. There are 3 layouts of teams I have thought of that we can decide which one we want
Ultimate Fantasy World / Diplomacy Encouraged / 3-Day Moves
If you like a lot of diplomacy, the challenge of 12 players, a dynamic land - sea war, Standard rules, and are in for the long haul... join the Ultimate Fantasy: gameID=3110
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=2839#gamePanel everyone has agreed to pause for Russia(left yesterday, gone for I believe 2 weeks), except Turkey, who has not said a single word the entire game... can someone please pause this?
We all have weaknesses. Some of us may be weaker in strategy, some weaker in tactics, some weaker in negotiation, some weaker in stabbing/not getting stabbed. What about this: Let us start a standard game. Players may recruit as many advisors as they see fit, to advise them on all issues of the game.
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New Game -> Public Messaging FOG - WTA
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right now, which is enough to join a 1 point 2 player game, but I can neither make nor join one. Any advice?