Diplomacy News From: nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (Nick Fitzpatrick x3821) Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1992 21:57:14 +0000 No EP's lately, so here is a couple of News items. - Judge enhancments from Ken - Chaos game in formation (zenith) I recently got the following from Ken about Judge enhancements As of Thu Jun 4 01:59: Added "set quiet" command to prevent signon/resign commands from being broadcast to the other players (for gunboat tournaments). Also prevents lates and abandonment notices from going to the players. These messages still go to the master of the game. As of Sat Jun 13 20:34: Added new "partial orders" flag. Pending orders submitted with the phase command which are not complete will set this flag rather than the "complete orders have been received" flag. It will also be set if valid orders are submitted for all units, but there is an error (eg: a bogus revision). Rather than setting a power to the abandoned state when the grace period expires, the partial orders will be processed if this flag is set. Added new "set unrated" and "set rated" commands. Any game that is "unrated" will not affect the players' dedication ratings. By default moderated games are rated and unmoderated games are unrated. Existing games remain rated. -Ken There is a chaos game in formation by the name of zenith. In the chaos variant there are 34! players, who each get one supply centre. There are presently 16 players signed up, so there is a need for 18 more. All are welcome, there is no dedication limit, and players are welcome from any site. To join this game, send the command signon ?zenith password chaos to the judge (judge@u.washington.edu). Unlike iona this game will NOT be stared without 34 players (or I QUIT!) If you speak German you might be interested to know that there is a chaos game forming by the name of voll, for German speakers only. They still need 30!! more players. Nick Fitzpatrick - Moderator DIPL-L Up