MadMarx wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 27, 2018 6:13 pm

...and like it or not, 1v1 has a significant presence on webDip...

It’s a good point, the World Cup winners didn’t even warrant a banner like the 1v1 did.

Damn politics.

You actually in Vancouver for this DQ?

Very cool.

In terms of interesting places, I really enjoyed Ethiopia and Bolivia. I did some awesome trekking in Ethiopia and enjoyed discovering about the extent of outside influences they had there. Was not expecting to see a European style castle there. Salar de Uyuni in Bolivia was this amazing surreal mix...

First to 24 as I recall (been a while since I played). Actually rarely results in a definitive winner, but fun nevertheless.

I don't like this at all. I think taking traditional communication out of the game changes it at a very fundamental level. A host of moves that are possible in diplomacy are simply unfeasible in gunboat, and whilst you may be able to improve the small set of moves akin to both games, the more compl...

Holy crap is that deep and wise! Hey, wait a minute....

Thanks, I was going to save that for a seperate discussion. *shakes fist*

I’ve been fortunate to get the opportunity to lock horns with many a top ranked player, so I’d like to highlight some of my observations of some attributes that make the successful so successful. Please note that there's not really one special sauce to as there are many different types of players an...

Will do. I’ll start getting some diplomacy thoughts and discussions going at some point as well, just haven’t had time yet.

I read a passage of it somewhere, seemed credible enough. Plenty of free e-zines and forum posts out there with just as quality of insight though.

Oh hey I just played the author over at PlayDip. His philosophies were working well for him until he got booted from the site for metagaming halfway through our game.

I really need to get back on circulation soon to reclaim my spot. At least I’m still reigning for classic maps.

Canada! Canada! Canada!