oh, and i will act a gm for this game (GamesMaster) and will thus adjudicate any disputes (and kick myself from the game before spring moves, plus pausing the game to allow someone come and replace me)

Sounds fun.

anonymous global chat?

Yes, anon global chat. That sounds good. Count me in

Ehh, on second thought. I have a lot of games going right now. I'll still comment from time to time here though

I'm in!

So everybody is allowed to comment the game here anytime, right?

@orath

I'm confused. Why don't you just start the game, then when someone joins, you can leave and the game can fill up without you.

man we have 3 different new press games going on. im totally going to try them all

oh yes, leaving the game makes much more sense :)

so the point of this thread is to discuss as a group possible tactics, or options which are available. You can put forward collective ideas and work as a group to determine the 'best' moves for any given country, and the players will/should contribute.

They are also able to chat among themselves in global anon messaging (in game, so the messages there are definitely from each country, whereas here they can be from anyone.)

Anyone who follows this thread should have 25 hours to discuss any given phase. I'll try to update it each day with the change of phase...

No more takers?

Can anyone post in the thread once the game starts, or only players in the game (who could pretend to be a country they aren't)?

yes, anyone can post. It is encouraged that the forum conversation be about the game on a tactical level. Specifically to influence it without players knowing who is giving good or bad advice.

Will we know who the players are, just not the countries, or is it supposed to be completely anonymous?

From what I understand, the only thing you can't do is to prove you're playing a certain country.

But will we know who are actual players in the game and who are not?

Good point, we shouldn't really say who's joining.

We can claim to join and not join, to join and don't say we've joined, claim to be a country we are not or even claim to be a country we are. Or do the opposite. :-P

Just don't prove it... Oh, and does the "we" mean you joined the game JesusPetry?

Yes! Or no! :-)

I like the no proving rule. I'm in...possibly.

the game is anon, so people can claim to be certain countries but proving who they are is harder.

They can post on global chat as their country. And thus it is pretty for them to prove who they are. However i would consider this to be a disadvantage. If you prove on this thread that you are playing and/or which country you are playing then you can no longer post here as a normal contributor.

So i've no problem with people denying themself the ability to post here (as black press) you're allowed be stupid.

Is it stupid, though? I would think having a known identity is beneficial. Let's say everyone else is known and you're the unknown, you're at a disadvantage, right? You can't negotiate on the same terms as everyone else, and everyone else can trust each other. Now let's say everyone else is unknown, and you're the only known. It's a bit tougher, because everyone knows who to talk to when they want to talk to you, but you don't know who to trust, but with time you'd probably figure it out. But if one person is known already, and the rest unknown, then it becomes extremely beneficial for a second person to become known, because those two can then have perfect negotiation, albeit public press, but still better than public press imperfect negotiation. I think there should be a rule AGAINST proving it's you, since it seems to be the better option in every circumstance unless everyone is unknown, and even then, it seems to carry its benefits.

public press in-game allows you have known conversations with the other (anon) players.

i don't think there is any way to prevent people becoming known, you can even fake who you are by getting another player to pretend to be you and confirming in-game that you're that player (collaborating with someone who isn't you... and creating a figure-head on this thread to talk as if they were you... )

i think i'd prefer to leave it up to the players whether the reveal which country they are playing, or whether they claim to be playing any given country (and everyone can claim they are a certain country... it just confuses matter if i claim to be germany when i'm not even in the game...)

i don't like rules which are hard to enforce. i'd prefer to allow the players give up the anonymity if they think it will benefit (or to hear the players threaten ingame to invade anyone who proves who they are... that's be for the fun...)

Well, I'm England and that bodes well for me. :-)

I think I'll claim to be Switzerland from now on.

Then I'll be sure to make only neutral commentary.

I find it funny when I play with someone else and the others think I'm one of the them because my in game personality is so different from the forum or, if I'm playing with hellalt, they think hellalt is me until he goes on a THR (true hellalk rant).