How is it different from public press only games? That's available as an option on this site by the way.

It's not different at all. I just read about the variant first in the official handbook and then found out about the different press options here on this site.

For anyone interested, I opened up the game. gameID=63273
Post here, if you're interested.

I'm interested. What's the password?

I'll join if you send me the password. The public press games are always interesting, although they often become alliance against alliance and its harder to convince people to stab someone else.

I've played in a public press only game. It was kind of ruined by some CD's, but stabs were definitely possible. You just had to be really careful about how you did them because it could make EVERYONE hate you.

The one I was in also specified "stereotypical accents", which would have been more fun if anyone but me (Germany) and England (fiedler) had done them.

Woodrow Wilson was a KKK supporting rascist, by the way, if actual historical fact were available to the mainstream

lmao. somethings are better not known.

Well in my very first game we got really serious about roleplaying our country's leaders, which was a lot of fun. I really got into my persona as the grand vizier to the Ottoman Sultan. It even went as far as me complaining to my allies about erratic moves plotted against my will by the Sultan. Hehehe.

How do you go about negotiating opening moves, though? In all my games before I always sort of got on friendly terms with both my neighbors and then picked with which one to go and to which one to lie before the first move. Thats not as feasable in a public press game. What are your experiences?

The peace with all strategy works OK in a public press game and the first person to declare open war by either word or action often gets in trouble as others gang up on them to prevent a war of aggression. You can still negotiate DMZs or bounces (unlike in gunboat). I find that I play public press in a more reactive way then regular games. Although you have to make sure that you keep talking, it also has come to the talkers picking off the non talkers one by one.

Anybody else want to join? Let me know here and I'll post you the password.

*Bump*
Need players.

What I do in public press:

1. Talk to everyone.
2. Keep your intentions open and honest as much as possible.

If you do both of those -- pick an enemy and formally declare your intentions for war and peace with the other powers as they may be -- you will find other players reacting to you, and you will subsequently be controlling the flow of the game. By continuing to keep up communications, you will be able to keep your allies longer than everyone else.

Meh. My experience with Wilson games is that players are way to precautious. It will in 80% of the cases result in an east-west battle with Italy playing the wild card. When played right the diplomacy is subtle in global but actions speak for themselves. Problem is you've suddenly got a 'reputation', which means things that would be accepted in anon or normal play, like a douchy stab, are now full out in the open, causing other players to mistrust you. In other words, the public opinion is much more important. That would be a nice challenge, were it not it mostly leads to conservative behaviour and the one or two pulling their necks out will have them chopped consequently. Get some guts, people!

* too, them = it

Ok, I'm in. Please PM me the password.

For lack of interest (so far I got one other player joined, bleh), I opened up another game without a password and more pre-game time.

To be found here -> gameID=63560

Might get one or the other asshat in it ('How u mean, public press onli. this suxxors!!11'), but at least the game will lift off the ground.

Bump. Would love to get this game going.

Much too short phases, sorry.

Still in need of players.
Check out here -> gameID=63560

*Bump again*
Just 3 more.

Since the last game fell through with the two brothers on the same computer shenanigans, I am yet again opening a new game.

gameID=63962
public press only
anon players
24h phase length
15 bet

Whosoever wishes can join, its not password protected since its apparently hard enough to find people willing to play.

*bumpin it*
But as to not be too boring, here's a question:
When I first opened the game, I typed in the name 'Peace in our time'. The site automatically added '-3' after the title, so I assumed there had been two other games of that name already.

However, after opening this second try, I stuck with the name but the site added '-2' to it. The numbering went backwards with otherwise same wording. Whats up with that? Who can explain this to me?