Hello
"Live game" is a game played like a FTF game but on the net. That is, it has 10-15 min deadlines, go on for about 4 hours and is never ressurected if not finihsed during this time. Alas, games that last an evening and nothing more.
We are some who would like to play these games regularly, so we want to try the client out first, if it can handle all the possibel complexities of playing live. Therefore this pilot.
In order to keep it simple, you don't have to say in beforehand if you're turning up or not (of course you can); instead, I'm thinking we meet up in a mibbit channel, #Diplomacy (it doesn't exist now, but as soon as someone tries to join it it's created automatically). That means that you only have to go to mibbit and join this channel before the game. This so that we can see how many are playing before we create the game and choose a variant accordingly, for that reason the game won't show until then either. If the chat of WebDiplomacy doesn't cut it, which is a risk, mibbit can also be backup plan to do the negotiations in.
Still interested? Good! All you have to do is to enter the #Diplomacy channel at 19:00 London time (UTC), Saturday 19/11. That is 14:00 on the US east coast and 6 am on Sunday in Melbourne. See you then!
Cheerios
Snake IV