DIPLOMACY: Another Youngstown Gunboat game in formation From: nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca (Nick Fitzpatrick) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1992 23:49:00 +0000 Due to the phenomonal success in the creation of the game sunda, I have created a game with the identical paramaters, sumatra. This will give people who do not read mail on weekends the chance to play in a moderated youngstown game! I am GMing a Gunboat Youngstown variant Diplomacy game on the judge. (In this version there are three additional countries, Japan, India and China. The Map and starting positions are greatly altered. Identities are a secret, and no press is allowed betweend the players Apart from this the rules are the same). This might be the first err second! moderated Youngstown Gunboat ever, (on the judge), at least is is the first err second! one in a couple of years. This will be a fast game, with 24 hour deadlines. The name of the game is sumatra, so anyone who wants to play should send signon ?sumatra password youngstown gunboat to the judge (judge@u.washington.edu) For those not familiar with the judge, send help to the judge in the body of a mail message. For more information on the youngstown variant, send the command get info.youngstown To get a youngstown map, send the command get youngstown.ps (Its in postscript format) or even better, get it by anonymous FTP to milton.u.washington.edu it is in the public/misc sub-dir The game parameters are similar to the game speed. This is a fast game, and I will not change these parameters once we start, so beware. Moves are on a 24 deadline, with a 72 hour grace, deadlines occurs on Monday afternoons, and Tues-Fri. There is a 30 minute minimum delay before processing move orders, rather than 12 hours, the normal 12 hours is so the judge does not go crazy if everybody has submitted lots of advance (phase) orders, however I have never seen this happen, except perhaps at the end of the game, and I might add a bit of delay, if necessary, later on. The default move processing is 11:20 pm, rather than 11:30 (PST). (GMT-8) This is just to give us a bit of a headstart against all the other games. Against my better judgement, there is no dedication limit on this game. This game will have an EP number, and be listed in Chapter 2. The parameters are: nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu as Master has changed the parameters for game sumatra to: Move clock 1400 min 0.50 next 24.00 grace 72.00 delay 0.50 days -mTWTF- Retreat clock -1 min 0.00 next 24.00 grace 72.00 delay 0.50 days --TWTF- Adjust clock -1 min 0.00 next 24.00 grace 72.00 delay 0.50 days --TWTF- Access: Different-site, Level: Any, Moderated. Variant: Youngstown, Gunboat. Flags: NoNMR, NoProxy. Press: None, No Partial. Contact me if you have any questions Nick Fitzpatrick nick@sunburn.waterloo.edu nick@sunburn.uwaterloo.ca Up