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Diplomacy. The hard part is finding exactly seven players. http://phpdiplomacy.net/ http://phpdiplomacy.net/ seems like a good online implementation, but I st

Diplomacy. The hard part is finding exactly seven players. http://phpdiplomacy.net/ http://phpdiplomacy.net/ seems like a good online implementation, but I strongly recommend playing with friends rather than strangers.

eru 19y ago
Play on the DPjudge. www.diplom.org is the place to go online for Diplomacy.
- euccastro 19y ago
  I found PBEM too draining. While a game was going (and it can take months or years, e.g. atlas@USTR), it's something I couldn't take a rest from, at least not often enough. Even when I was not compulsively checking my mail or looking at a map, I would keep a background process munching my tactical and, especially, my diplomatic situation. I left the hobby altogether because of that (and the fact that I can't find other 6 players for a live game [1]). I plan to some day [2] implement a client/server to play remotely but in real time, with good communication interfaces [3]. So you can set apart an afternoon every other weekend or so, play a game for a few hours, and then the game ends no matter what and you're done with it. [1] There are some variants with more or less than 7 players, though. I found Iberian (5 players) to be enjoyable, and Hundred3 is quite playable if you can only find 3. If you want to lose your life, try World2, played by 17 (!) players on a wraparound world map. [2] And seeing so many upvotes to Diplomacy comments around here, that day might come sooner! [3] There's RTDip, a community for realtime mail games, but communication is forbidden in those games, so it's not nearly the same.
  - eru 19y ago
    You can play real time on the DPjudge. But you would probably like to set up VOIP calls in addition. You are right about the background munching though. I kind of like it to have a lot of time to ponder my moves.

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Diplomacy. The hard part is finding exactly seven players. http://phpdiplomacy.net/ http://phpdiplomacy.net/ seems like a good online implementation, but I st

by avibryant 19y ago

eru 19y ago
Play on the DPjudge. www.diplom.org is the place to go online for Diplomacy.
- euccastro 19y ago
  I found PBEM too draining. While a game was going (and it can take months or years, e.g. atlas@USTR), it's something I couldn't take a rest from, at least not often enough. Even when I was not compulsively checking my mail or looking at a map, I would keep a background process munching my tactical and, especially, my diplomatic situation. I left the hobby altogether because of that (and the fact that I can't find other 6 players for a live game [1]). I plan to some day [2] implement a client/server to play remotely but in real time, with good communication interfaces [3]. So you can set apart an afternoon every other weekend or so, play a game for a few hours, and then the game ends no matter what and you're done with it. [1] There are some variants with more or less than 7 players, though. I found Iberian (5 players) to be enjoyable, and Hundred3 is quite playable if you can only find 3. If you want to lose your life, try World2, played by 17 (!) players on a wraparound world map. [2] And seeing so many upvotes to Diplomacy comments around here, that day might come sooner! [3] There's RTDip, a community for realtime mail games, but communication is forbidden in those games, so it's not nearly the same.
  - eru 19y ago
    You can play real time on the DPjudge. But you would probably like to set up VOIP calls in addition. You are right about the background munching though. I kind of like it to have a lot of time to ponder my moves.