Organization thread

[Nakor]

We're about to start with the next game of diplomacy.
I got preferences from 6 out of the 7 players.

How long do you guys want the turns to last?

Instead of Sareln I won't use different turns for Summer/Winter and Retreats.
My personal experience is that you can easily send in those orders with your Spring/Autumn orders, using a lot of IF's or WHEN's to make clear what you want.

I'll post some more links and other info here later today.

The players and their e-mails:
Austria: Sciz = andreas.wiktorson at gm​ail.com
England: Jkaen = jkaen.online at gmail.c​om
France: Bob = bobchillingworth at gma​il.com
Germany: Commodore = commodore.rb at gmail.c​om
Italy: TT = jbtwinkletoes89 at goog​lemail.com
Russia: Gaspar = pjtopor at gmail.com
Turkey: Jowy = jowyrb at gmail.com

[SIZE="7"]Pre-Spring 1901:[/SIZE]

[Maniac Marshall]

Just my opinion, feel free to ignore it, but with a game full of noobies, you're asking an awful lot of them to anticipate ahead of time exactly what retreat is best for them, especially when where to retreat can sometimes be nowhere (disband), especially in the fall, to enable "rapid retreat". I'd think it's going to be difficult for them to clearly see some eventualities coming ahead of time in their first game.

[Jkaen]

I tend to agree, I think we can cut down on the time per phase, but at least initially until we get the hang of it can we do each phase seperately.

Once we get the hang of it we may be able to merge them

[Twinkletoes89]

Fully agree with MM & Jkaen. I would like us to keep it separate for a while as it will make it easier for us to feel our way into it as it is the first game for so many of us.

I think we can start at 48/48/24 which is what the first game trimmed down to in terms of time per phase.

Also, what do we do about dedicated lurkers? I think that given how critical input can be when making decisions in a game like this, it should be the case that either everyone has one or noone does to keep it fair.

What's the other guys opinions on this?

[Sciz]

I agree with separate phases, and also i'd play without a ded lurker. Let everyone make mistakes, more fun that way

[Nakor]

Ok, we'll work with seperate phases then. Think it should work with my adjudication program.

I agree, let's not use ded lurkers since we all want to learn and make mistajes.

72/24/72/24/24 sounds good to me for the first 2/3 years. You guys need time to negotiate.

[Nakor]

Got the countries for all players. Everyone got their first or second choice.

Austria: Sciz
England: Jkaen
France: Bob
Germany: Commodore
Italy: TT
Russia: Gaspar
Turkey: Jowy

Deadline for Spring 1901 is 1/7/2011 20:00 GMT

[fire&ice]

Deadline for Spring 1901 is 1/7/2011 20:00 GMT

Wasn't that like 6 or 7 months ago

Edit: or are you doing dd/mm/yy

[Jkaen]

The map is of Europe, so its European dates!

[Jkaen]

Nakor, can you please edit your first post with everybodies email so I can beg them not to kill me?

EDIT: Will avoid a triple post and say I agree with no ded lurkers