Astolaf.162 net.games utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!chico!harpo!npois!houxi!ihnss!ihps3!stolaf!knight Tue Mar 2 14:17:17 1982 Network Diplomacy: an elaboration After getting the first few responses to my offer for PBM Diplomacy, I realized that the lack of detail in the article (submitted in a haste when the idea struck me) may have frightened some people off. To elaborate: I am willing to gamemaster a play-by-mail game of Diplomacy, to be played over the net. I have had experience in gamemastering, and am consequently looking for the requisite seven players; ideally, I am also looking for some players to act as stand-byes, in the event that some of the original players have to drop out. (I shall assume that those of you who have already replied are interested in being full-fledged players unless I hear from you otherwise.) This leads me to a question that came up after I submitted the article: is there sufficient spectator interest out there to warrant submitting the in-progress reports to net.games (net.games.dip?) for general perusal, or would it be better to only bother those participating via mail? Additionally, I am soliciting advice on what would be a suitable time-span for a turn. I had originally thought of two weeks from when the results of a turn are made public to when the next turn's moves are due, plus a one-week grace period to take care of retreats, builds, and the like, but I'm not sure. I'm not an expert on the amount of time it takes for mail to get around the net; could we get by with a turn every week (with maybe a three-day period for retreats and builds)? Please let me know. So anyway, now that you all have some additional info, please reply if you're interested in participating, acting as a stand-by, or just spectating. I shall respond via mail to those who get to play (generally first-come-first-served) with more info to get things rolling. I shall also summarize the response I get and post it to net.games. Steve Knight ihnss|ihps3|stolaf|knight ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.