To avoid confusion, if there are enough people to do a second Black Press game, we could always start a second blog. I just don't want people posting in the wrong blog. That just adds a whole 'nother layer of confusion.

Sounds great, Toby! And thanks, you really were the inspiration for this.

OK, so the players are: Stukus, bbdaniels, Raptura, Conservative Man, Thucydides, idealist, and Bananenrepublikaner. I know Raptura and I are in the game and can post. Can everyone else check in?

let me check. so i need to sign in at this one site?

Ya. Go to www.wordpress.com, sign in with the password sent to you and the username Diplomacyblackpress. There's only one blog. Just make sure you can sign in. If you can do that, posting should be no problem, but feel free to test.

i tested. the germany posted is by me.
i have some additional questions before we start.
1. can we trick people by posting our country/user? like "i'll move to channel. ~idealist"
or "ill move to channel ~germany"
2. can we use other people's user or country? "i'll move to channel ~france (when i am germany).
3. we can say someone is lying right? regardless of whether or not he's lying or not

additionally, i won't be able to check all the time, so wouldn't we usually believe the person we read about first?

and stukus, thanks a lot for the invitation. the game looks really fun. can't wait to start ;-]

So far as your questions go, idealist:
1) Don't post usernames, just countries. The game is anonymous, so usernames wouldn't be helpful anyway.
2) You're encouraged to pretend to be other countries. You can sign as your real country, too, though.
3) Feel free to say someone is lying, but don't start any post-wars over it. If you're commenting on a message, use the comments instead of a new post. Might be easier that way. There'll be a lot of communication already. I don't think we need spamming on top of that.

In general, lying is fun. Do it. The only things I don't want to see lied about are pause requests. Lying about draws is totally fine, though.

I'm looking forward to this game, too! If anyone's interested, but doesn't want to follow the blog, I'll post the blog when the game is done so you guys can see how it worked out.

stukus, i cant get in the game. is the password correct? (i was able to sign in the blog though).

You're in the game now, right, idealist? We're still missing one person, not counting bbdaniels.

Alright. We've got our people and the blog seems to work well. I also created a page for commentators to post their comments, to free up the main page from any clutter, and a page to display each season's map. Whoever hasn't joined the game, please do, and bbdaniels, whenever you get those points back, please join in, too. The game should start within a day or so.

i posted in the blog, is it readable? I am the one missing and still a little confused @.@

Ah. Did you receive the password from me? Should have been sent in a PM. If you didn't get it, I'll resend it. That'll be the game password and the blog password. To post in the blog, go to www.wordpress.com, sign in with the password, and the username Diplomacyblackpress, and you can do posts.

I resent the password to you, Bananenrepublikaner. Basically, once the game starts, we use the blog only to send messages. They'll all be sent while we're signed in as the blog's owner, which has its own marker so we can tell that it's legit. If you have any other questions, just ask.

just wondering whether twitter mightn't also be a useful tool for black-pressing?

That's true, bbdaniels. Blog's already set up, but if you want to make a twitter account for it, that could work, too. Someone dropped out of the game, so we need a new 7th. I'll try messaging GlueDuck. Bananen, have you been able to join the game yet?

I got a message stating someone has joined.

That was me

Great, just checked out your win with Turkey. Impressive to me. I was thinking you would have CD's to win by 1905. Turns out that is not neccesary!! We should ally in this game!!

Thank you, I was a bit lucky with Austria getting drawn into a war with both Italy and Russia. And I'd be happy to ally with you, but you'll have to find me first ;)

OK, so just bbdaniels and Bananen, then, I believe. BB should be joining soon once he has his points. Bananen, where are you?

i posted in the blog, is it readable? I am the one missing and still a little confused @.@

sry last post is an error of my browser-.-

I dont find the PM you sent me, where exactly do I look for it? I thought webDiplomacy had no integrated PM-system, at least I didnt find one.

Sorry for the trouble :(

ah found it, omg the PM system here is out of hell! O.o

okay I will be joining now

Nice. Bbdaniels, how's your game going?

Ban..........ner
click the [ / ] button beside the column title and you get a much clearer page to read them off.

stukus... T-10 hours

gameID=14666

it's just the devil's 15th game, so give him some time ;)