Diplomacy Organizing Thread

[Rowain]

lists seems to be right

[uberfish]

Confirming I will team with David. Do not want spoiler threads. I think we could all do without the paranoia of wondering if some lurker is leaking info from the thread. Seriously.

[Rowain]

I hope nobody forces you to do one. Besides it is up to you anyway what you put in a spoiler thread or not.

But for people not really knowing the game having some threads can make it interesting instead of just reading A SMY - CON and similars

[Selrahc]

Yes. I'd really love to read the backroom dealings as they happen... I think this could be a really fun game to lurk.

[Amelia]

I guess it's up to the player whether they want a spoiler thread or not. We won't enforce it.

[regoarrarr]

I plan to have a spoiler thread, and I agree to not look at anyone else's. This is Diplomacy sure but cmon folks

[sunrise089]

Would reading other players' spoiler threads be worse in Diplomacy than in Civ?

[T-hawk]

Your forum is up. I'll leave this thread here until the game gets underway then move it there. I set the forum for posts not to show up in search results, might help a little against accidental spoiler leakage.

I guess the next task is to assign [strike]civilizations[/strike] nations - what's the plan for that?

[regoarrarr]

How about something like this

At the start of the game, each player secretly submits to the GM a
preference list, ranking the seven Great Powers in the order the player
prefers them. A player may group together on his list Powers he prefers
equally; an example: France; [Germany, Italy or Austria]; [England or
Russia]; Turkey. A player may list fewer than seven Powers if he wishes;
he may even list none. Or, instead of listing Powers, he may secretly
request a Random Power. To write nothing is as to write a list of zero
Powers, which is not the same as specifically to request a Random Power.

The GM secretly reviews the lists. To any player who has specifically
requested a Random Power, the GM at once randomly assigns a Power. Then,
taking the remaining lists one by one, in random order of players, the GM
awards each player the player's top choice from among the Powers still
available. Where grouped Powers are equally top choice, the GM awards one
of the available top choices randomly; in the example above, had France,
Italy and Russia already been taken, the GM would award either Austria or
Germany. Where the list lists fewer than seven Powers, and all the Powers
listed have already been taken, the GM awards nothing; he discards the
list and moves on to the next player. After awarding Powers to all the
other players, the GM assigns randomly the Powers left over to the players
left over.

Unlike with orders, the GM does not reveal preference lists, not even
after he has assigned the countries. Nor does he reveal details, such as
whose list he has read first. He merely reports which player will
represent each Great Power.

[Rowain]

Would reading other players' spoiler threads be worse in Diplomacy than in Civ?

Good Question
In live-diplomacy Eavesdropping/accidential hearing/ and recognizing who talks with whom how long is part of the game.
OTOH Here with fori you don't have to pay attention but can always read what was posted. (But of coure the player can post false information too)

I think we should ban reading other players threads.