Sounds interesting, how would these signals be sent, though?

I like the idea too...maybe there could be addad some diplomacy-options to the move-options, eg ->alliance with-> x? o.O
That would need FoW...
What does Oli thonk to this in general?

i was thinking of having chat-boxes to send messages to all your own regions, and some general receive-chatbox, i thought that wouldn't be too hard...

with FoW would be extra cool, then you get things like GameMaster saying that someone in a territory close to you sent a smoke signal, but you wouldn't know who :)
then you get the message of course...
i think it would be great fun, finding yourself trying to establish a safe communicating way between your allies, or spreading lies when someone's isolated by you but only you know it...
sending messages could be with all your territories, all your armies/units on land/ all units or all your centers, i vote for all units on land i guess...

alternatively it could be done completely manually via mail with a gamemaster who knows where everyone is...

if we don't get this option through i'd like to try the mailing thing...

and i'm very curious what Oli thinks because he'll probably have to do it...

oh, and happy you guys like it, gives me hope, thanks :)

Could you do this via an honour system in the gray-press variant?

Don't know what you mean by honour system but I guess Oli will know what's easiest of he wants it at all...
I'm waiting for him and maybe good ideas, and I mean about the variant itself, no matter what's the easiest Oli probably knows :)

Oh, bumps useful too :)

You can set up a game (classic - graypress) where players agree beforehand to communicate via gray press to each other, and only if they adhere to the smokesignal rule. Players will have to honour this agreement, but it would be a good test to see how the variant plays out.

I would be up for something similar to kaner's idea.

Wouldn't we need FoW as well?
The idea was that you know from which territory the message comes but not from who...

Bump