Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it

From: Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>

Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:01:54 +0000

Tim Booth wrote:

> Indeed - the extreme example of this is Diplomacy, where outright
> impersonation is built into the Judge software, and you have to
> remember what version you're playing (from memory, Black games,
> anything goes...)

Most of my early PBM friends were Diplomacy players: perfectly
trustworthy guys - unless you were up against them in a game.

> And Galaxy has always been very clear on this, and I've seen it
> enforced three times - you send orders for another player, and they
> complain, you are gone. Usually, that particualr GM will not let you
> play one of their games again either. But if you mislead / lie in
> the internal diplomacy parts of the game... well, if you can get
> away with it, that's fine.

True of Starweb, too. I've seen a house rule that it's acceptable
to mislead other players, but not the GM. Maybe this would work
better as a house rule than an overall ban on impersonation, which
may restrict the joys of diplomatic deception.

As a magazine editor, I find deception great fun to read about.
Some of the best articles that Flagship has ever published were
an early series on Diplomacy. Hmm, they're too long ago to appear
on our website, but maybe they'd be worth reprinting as our 90th
issue approaches...

Carol

References

Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:47:09 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Tim Booth <T.Booth@isu.usyd.edu.au>
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:24:04 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 10:15:27 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
lindahl@pbm.com (Greg Lindahl)
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:11:04 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
Carol Mulholland <Carol@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:00:54 +0000
Re: Eressea: How shit happened, and what to do about it
"Enno Rehling" <schick.mir.spam@gmx.de>
Tue, 23 Jan 2001 21:57:17 +0000