TRUE full diplomacy game

[Maximus Dominus]

I have to back out of this one, and team. I have a personal issue I’m going to need to be working on, and I won’t have time to properly play these. I am sorry, be back soon

Not a problem. I hope you are able to resolve your personal issue successfully without any great headaches.

[Strongwill]

I have to back out of this one, and team. I have a personal issue I’m going to need to be working on, and I won’t have time to properly play these. I am sorry, be back soon

Not a problem. I hope you are able to resolve your personal issue successfully without any great headaches.

Thank you, nothing serious, just time consuming

[JulianTheApostate]

Damn time!

[Kellenved]

In light of the conversation I am having with one of our new players, I propose a TRUE full diplomacy game.  In THIS game, there will be NO rules!  Ally with whom you want for how long you want, speak outside the forum, plan, scheme, gang up, have secret alliances, make any trades and issue ANY orders the program allows.  If 11 of you want to get together and kill me from the very start of the game, I will welcome it!  Gank, backstab, and except to be betrayed and lied to!

However... the win condition is STILL only single player, 5 regions to win Rex, no team victories.

Maybe Brek can make it interesting for the winner.  Some sort of title, little fancy graphic thing on your avatar or profile?

Any Interest?

I'm in.

[Brekk]

Looks like a "nobody" joined the game - Please restart and I will take the final spot to make it go. We have put something in that should reduce the nobody issue.
The other option is to place 1 kingdom down in Zamora, let me know.

[Maximus Dominus]

   

I have created a remake of this game. Rejoin using the same kingdoms and starting regions!

Communications: Full Diplomacy

Kingdoms/Acct:
AL : Pine Needle) - Signed up, again!
AT : (Rellgar) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
DE : (GrimFinger) - Signed up, again!
DK : (Wookie Panz) - Signed up, again!
DU : (Jon Deaux) - Signed up, again!
DW : (Milo007) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
FT : (Zarashand) - Signed up, again!
GI :  (Glowamane) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
GN : (Windstar) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
RD : (Alexicles) - Signed up, again!
SA : (Morgan Kane) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.

NOTE: Brek will take the last spot when ready if no one wanted.

NOTE: I do not have e-mail contact information to notify Milo007 and Morgan Kane that they need to sign up, again. I do not find either of those monikers in the Alamaze forum member list. To all others on the list who have not yet signed up, again, I sent a PM. I sent one to Glowamane and another to Glowamane1. Is that the same forum member?

[Wookie Panz]

I have created a remake of this game. Rejoin using the same kingdoms and starting regions!
Communications: Full Diplomacy
Kingdoms/Acct:
AL : Pine Needle) - Signed up, again!
AT : (Rellgar) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
DE : (GrimFinger) - Signed up, again!
DK : (Wookie Panz) - Signed up, again!
DU : (Jon Deaux) - Signed up, again!
DW : (Milo007) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
FT : (Zarashand) - Signed up, again!
GI :  (Glowamane) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
GN : (Windstar) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
RD : (Alexicles) - Signed up, again!
SA : (Morgan Kane) - Hasn't yet signed up, again.
NOTE: Brek will take the last spot when ready if no one wanted.
NOTE: I do not have e-mail contact information to notify Milo007 and Morgan Kane that they need to sign up, again. I do not find either of those monikers in the Alamaze forum member list. To all others on the list who have not yet signed up, again, I sent a PM. I sent one to Glowamane and another to Glowamane1. Is that the same forum member?

Why the need for a restart?

[Maximus Dominus]

Why the need for a restart?

Scroll up this thread to find Brekk's posting that said to restart this game of Alamaze.

Looks like a "nobody" joined the game - Please restart and I will take the final spot to make it go.  We have put something in that should reduce the nobody issue.
The other option is to place 1 kingdom down in Zamora, let me know.

I suspect that it's due to two primary reasons, Wookie Panz.

1. Someone joined the game, but apparently, they had not created a Player Account, ye - and when that happens, the system lists them as Nobody on the sign-up list, which means that that particular individual won't be in the game, after all.

. . . and . . .

2. A missing player at game start means that one of the regions that would have had a starting player won't have one in it, and then that leads to an imbalance of power - possibly yielding an opportunity in one area of the map for a vacuum of power, that would not exist in other regions.

On a purely personal level, I wouldn't care, as I am playing the game to explore and to learn, not to win. But if one area of the map, pop centers are available with less competition from them, then that might end up bolstering some, without other players in other regions enjoying a reciprocal advantage to offset it.

Restart the game or don't restart the game? That question will always present a dilemma. Some may not like it, if a game endures a restart. After all, they've waited patiently for their new game to start, only to then find themself back in the waiting line for it to start, again. But if you don't restart the game, some may not like that, either, because they may then feel that their kingdom got screwed, because a vacuum now exists where a simple restart could preclude that form being the case.

We live in an imperfect world, Wookie Panz, as you well know. The restart of games of Alamaze doesn't appear to have been given lots of thought in the past. How are the players who find themselves in such a situation to be alerted to the fact that their game is going to be restarted? I wasn't able to communicate directly with all of the players affected. I don't think that two of them, in this particular case, have forum user accounts that correspond to the monikers that they used when creating their player accounts. Rather than just dawdle and mire us all into delay caused by uncertainty, I opted to send messages to the players that I could, acting on what Alamaze's new owner posted in this thread above. Sorry for any inconvenience or confusion that it may have caused.

[Wookie Panz]

I am thinking maybe the game creation program needs a tweak to tighten it up so a wandering newby can't screw up a new game start as has happened twice recently.
Maybe only admin should be starting games of, let's say 5 players or more.  That would include the rarely used primeval games.

[Maximus Dominus]

I am thinking maybe the game creation program needs a tweak to tighten it up so a wandering newby can't screw up a new game start as has happened twice recently.
Maybe only admin should be starting games of, let's say 5 players or more.  That would include the rarely used primeval games.

Brekk and one of his technical geniuses are in the process, right now, of trying to remedy the wandering Nobody problem. It's being tricky, though, and will require some time to sort through fully.