OBS-4 Discussion (game and roll call)

[Calax]

Here's a very good article for beginners:

Art of Diplomacy.

 

It is in the order of several powers of ten easier to read than the rule book. (But then again, maybe that's the point; after all until Machiavelli turned up, there were no guide books for diplomacy ...

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THANKYOU those are quite useful as are the ones at the end of the pamphlet. rulebook thingy

[metadigital]

If :alanschu: is obliged to play in another standard game, then we can kick off game 4 "soon". :D

 

I think it is perfectly reasonable for new players to play in the standard game, then (if they wish) progress to the variants that others wish to play.

[alanschu]

Ok, catch me up to speed....who'd all be playing in the game?

 

 

On a side note, I find it odd for someone to know all the ins and outs of a game he's never played before, but meh.

[jaguars4ever]

So far it looks like we have six players:

• Archie,
   
  
• Jags,
   
  
• Ender,
   
  
• Lancer,
   
  
• Trobalov (only for standard game), and
   
  
• Calax.
   
  
• Alanschu (only if he can play Canada)
  

If we get one more player, then the fourth game is under way!

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[alanschu]

What can I say...I'm illiterate.

 

Are we just playing the standard version?

[metadigital]

Right-ho. I shall prepare the standard game for Obsidian Obsessive-Compulsives, self-help group Four, and record all the details here today.

 

Any preference for start dates? (Email me: I'll be working towards the end of the week, I suppose; I would understand if everyone wanted to space this game out with the others and have the turns on a weekday, instead. though ...)

[EnderAndrew]

I nominate that for the first turn we have the full week to establish alliances and such. After that I'd like the option to doing a full year in a week like we're doing in Game 1. It moves things along so much faster.

[metadigital]

While it makes no nevermind to me, there are a couple of n00bz0rrz, so perhaps it would be fairer to give them a few weeks to get used to the game before giving them ephedrine ...

[EnderAndrew]

That's why I say a week for the first turn, and we can then vote after that turn to consider the 3 day turns as opposed to a week.

[metadigital]

That's very understanding of you ...

[Calax]

oh goodie. I suppose that schedule could work for me. But then I have no life so...

[metadigital]

... any schedule would work for you.

 

Everyone, just make sure you post your orders; it doesn't matter how clever you are if you don't submit orders, then you fail!

[Calax]

so do we have a final player?

[metadigital]

Not to re-itertate Jags's re-repeating of my original statement, but:

So far it looks like we have six players:

• Archie,
   
  
• Jags,
   
  
• Ender,
   
  
• Lancer,
   
  
• Trobalov,
   
  
• Calax, and
   
  
• Alanschu.
  

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[Calax]

well you talked like we had a final player

[metadigital]

Arithmatic isn't your strong suit, is it Calax?

[Reveilled]

When the game does start, could you email me the results of the turns in addition to the players, Mets? I'd like a copy of them for my records. Once OBS-1 is finished, I'll probably start up an archive with the turn records of all completed games on the forums. Hopefully, it will be a useful tool for beginner and experienced player alike.

 

On another note, OBS-5 (assuming someone doesn't take that game number before I'm eliminated from OBS-2 or finished with OBS-1) will probably be a 9-player game of Abberation V. Obviously, that won't start for quite a few weeks, but y'all might want to consider whether or not you're interested.

[metadigital]

Heh, judging by the progress I seem to make in these games, I'll only have GM duties for two games and nothing else, so I am good to go.

 

I'll draw up the next schedule over the weekend. All players please submit your preferences (email), I have sent the game invitation to you; I still don't have an email for Trobolov, though

 

[Calax]

Is that for our game or OBS-5?

[Reveilled]

Is that for our game or OBS-5?

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I'll be GMing OBS-5, so if you're referring to Meta's comment about the preference lists, he means OBS-4. OBS-5 is still a few weeks away, and I haven't even started signing people up for it.

[Kaftan Barlast]

Are you plaing that old map again?

[Reveilled]

Are you plaing that old map again?

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You mean me or Mets? OBS-4 is standard, OBS-5 will be Abberation V. I hope the fact that the powers and province configurations are different qualifies it as a different map in your eyes even if it's still Europe, as I'd like you to play.

[metadigital]

Are you playing that old map again?

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OBS-4 looks like being on the Standard Map, with everone adjured to the latest Standard Rules.

 

[metadigital]

 

 

So it is just a bigger bunch of countries spread out a bit more?

 

And the edges have less SCs, too.

 

Why the sudden attraction to this variant?

[Reveilled]

 

So it is just a bigger bunch of countries spread out a bit more?

 

And the edges have less SCs, too.

 

Why the sudden attraction to this variant?

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I have a Burgundy fetish. "

 

But seriously, it's not so much a sudden attraction as an easing in. Other than the map, which is not drastically different to standard, Abberation is much like the normal game, and so is a good choice, in my opinion, for a first variant, both as a player and more especially as a GM.