Buddy/Ignore List
Thanks to LD and all for the write-ups. Sounds like a great game was had.
We have eliminated the old style 341 - 349 orders that were there from 1986, maybe a decade before the internet was in wide use by regular folk.
But given the popularity of Anonymous formats, due mainly I believe to provide relief from the wolf packs (perceived or real) and to relieve the extra effort to communicate lavishly (perceived or real), as a non-response is sometimes considered a war intention by some players, I might revisit the idea with updated, limited messages for a future (The Choosing form of Anonymous?) edition.
My first thought is that the initial diplomacy in this limited diplomacy environment might be, perhaps a new #341, would be to be "Received" by a foreign king. This would require one of your emissaries to relocate to a PC owned by the target kingdom, issue the #341, and have it acknowledged, perhaps by #342. Only then would the other messages become available with that kingdom. So an investment of orders and some risk, uncertainty, some time required, but seems more like how foreign kingdoms might establish relations. Slows things down in the diplomacy front, so no Game Long Nap Turn 1, but the chance to grunt out in foreign languages some basic intentions as foreign holdings are encountered.
We have eliminated the old style 341 - 349 orders that were there from 1986, maybe a decade before the internet was in wide use by regular folk.
But given the popularity of Anonymous formats, due mainly I believe to provide relief from the wolf packs (perceived or real) and to relieve the extra effort to communicate lavishly (perceived or real), as a non-response is sometimes considered a war intention by some players, I might revisit the idea with updated, limited messages for a future (The Choosing form of Anonymous?) edition.
My first thought is that the initial diplomacy in this limited diplomacy environment might be, perhaps a new #341, would be to be "Received" by a foreign king. This would require one of your emissaries to relocate to a PC owned by the target kingdom, issue the #341, and have it acknowledged, perhaps by #342. Only then would the other messages become available with that kingdom. So an investment of orders and some risk, uncertainty, some time required, but seems more like how foreign kingdoms might establish relations. Slows things down in the diplomacy front, so no Game Long Nap Turn 1, but the chance to grunt out in foreign languages some basic intentions as foreign holdings are encountered.
