I like it, it introduces a whole new skill: How furiously can you type!

Well, puddle, it is important to note that the real game has 10 minute phases.

But with the real game, threats of physical violence are so much more apropo

The "real game" can be defined as many different versions of Diplomacy. The one you described is the board game sold by Hasbro, but the original Diplomacy game was played by post and had between-phase times longer than what we currently experience on this site.

no no no... the board game is the original

There is no "real" game. When I played face to face we had about 3 days between phases, though retreats and builds were done right after. Diplomacy occurred between classes, and whenever, wherever.

10 minutes is only a suggestion...

When I/we play face-to-face we sometimes go longer but 8 + 2 (8 for diplomacy, 2 for mad scribbling of orders) is fun.

And the Board Game is the original, alamothe is correct.

I would love to play a fast game but the problem comes if one of the players needs to take a break (wife comes home early). Until we have the option to change the time between moves after a game has started, the only hope is for players to agree, on honour, to finalise quickly on a normal game, say 24 hrs per move.

Just to clarify that final statement: the players agree to finalise within, say, fifteen minutes but the game is set up for 24 turns. The game will update as soon as all seven players submit orders.

the reason why i bring it up is because i hate how i enter my moves then i have to wait forever for my next turn...

I started like you did chris, except we also got together for face-to-face matches after classes once a week.
Who organized your games?

you could start a thread to get seven players for a password protected lightning game with an agreed upon max round time.

personally i think theres too much room for error, but (theoretically) it could work. finding a time that works for all is also a challenge .

To say that 10 minutes is only a suggestion is to say that the rulebook to ANY game is merely a suggestion. I could play ClueDip, and just diplomacize my way through each suggestion turn. Or, to get more away from rules I could say Monopoly is really an RPG. Use the dollars like experience points, etc etc etc. (Actually, that sounds like fun...)

But anyway, back to my point. 10 minutes of real life time can give you tons of preperation. Especially if you're working out what you're going to say while moves are being done, and adjudication is taking place. 24 hours of game time, on a world-wide level, usually amounts in about 10 minutes of prep time. With natural exception to retreat/build phases.

I don't know why I put so much time into this post. I don't even really care about what I mentioned here. Just a thought I was entertaining after having read this thread...

k thanks for the input... i just thought id mention it as an idea. personally i would love something like that. and its not like everybody would have to join this games either

If anyone open one I am in

I would be up for a quick round set of diplomacy. It would be an interesting variant again.

well i will make one if the site manger will make it an opition... please consider it

Once everyone finalizes the game progresses immidiately, so if you can get 7 people who want to play this type of game you can

After all of this discussion someone will start a quick game?

I am away for the weekend, but happy to begin one in the middle of next week during the day, say 10am GMT+1?

I'd be up for playing a game at that time.

sorry i got school haha

Ok, the board game was the original, I'll give you that, but aren't phpDip, (e-)mail, F2F simply different methods of communication for the same game?