If you plan on doing this, may I suggest you also address the procedure for Cancel and Pause votes.

let's talk about pauses in advance. Otherwise we can go through normal channels like posting to forum or simply voting. Votes of cancel should not be made. I intend ton only allow trustworthy players into the game. In the unlikely event of a cd the game should be cancelled.

What I mean to say is, there will be no need to cancel. If one of the 7 players suddenly vanishes from the site we can assume they are hospitalized and in this case the mods will be asked to cancel the game.

I do not want votes "affecting" the game. This will be a fun experiment in a similar nature of trip's Lusthog Games. Players involved in the 2010 GT final/semi-final will get priority upon registration. As does 2WL.

I'm interested, hopefully I'll be able to afford it.

Would be happy to include you Alex. I am fine with whatever buy-in you would like.

The idea is good players in this game via the password, so bets need not be too high.

I'd be interested - just for a quality gunboat, if you'll have me.

Thanks!

I'd be interested, if I can afford it and if it were also Anon.

Are you planning that players would know how many people had voted to draw but not who had voted or would they not know anything about the draw votes at all?

Nothing about the votes. In all honesty they shouldnt matter. I am going to leave this open for people to express interest.

Oh yeah I would prefer anon as well.

If you need a player, I would gladly be in.

I would be interested if you deem me trustworthy enough

I'd play, 40 or lower would be cool. I'm going to need a pause in a few weeks so might as well just wait till beginning of February to start if I'm in. If you find other players, I'll wait till the next one I guess...

Count me in!

Are you playing one, or multiple games, Lando?

I would try it.

I asked the moderators about one game. Here is what I now propose:

Two games, I will play in one of them. I will also ask one player from the other game to volunteer to be a "contact"

I and this player will be the people to whom the draw votes will be e-mailed. It will be our responsibility to contact a mod about the force draw of the other game.

For the game I will play in, I would like to play against the top rated players who put their names in the hat. For the other game, we can do first come first served or the next 7 players. Up to the others, I suppose.

I'll give this another 24 hours before cutting off registrations.

B.U.M.P.

I'm interested if there is space & I am trustworthy enough.

I'm definitely in. I like adding additional rules to the restrictions of gunboat. I've been toying with the idea of adding formal rules for alliances and stabbing, such as formally proposing alliances and getting to accept/reject those proposals, all done in secret, of course. Say I was France and sent England an alliance proposal in spring 1901 naming my terms, maybe I'd agree to cede him Belgium in a certain year. England could weigh offers for alliances and choose one (or more) with which to formally ally. Nobody other than the two allied countries would know about the agreement, so technically England and Turkey could agree to an alliance if it could benefit them somehow. On the flip side, there would be penalties for breaking an alliance, along the lines of a forced NMR for a whole turn or a certain percentage of units could not move for X number of turns. This may be fun on the Crowded variant as well.

I guess I'm just trying to incorporate Empires in Arms rules into the anonymity and unknown variables of gunboat Diplomacy. Not trying to chance Lando's rules, but I'd like to get something like this going sometime soon.

tl;dr - I'm in.

Sounds cool. Can I play?

I read it, sounds complicated. Always happy to try something new.

I'll fiddle with it and try to come up with some official rules once I get some free time.

I'm all for penalties!

Last call

I'll have a special.

As it stands there are 12 people. So:

Game 1:
AlexNesta
Lando
Fairfax
trip
Frank
2ndwhiteline
Czech

Game 2:
pjmansfield
speakertoaliens
breathofvega
bosox
jcbryan
blank
blank

Two empty spots - if anyone wants to play in both games that works. Maybe they can be the volunteer for the other game. Or, i'll leave it to the forum.

I just want to re-go over the rules before I set up the game. So I make sure everyone is onboard. But that will come later.

the above is based on december gunboat gr

Shouldn't the contact not be in both games?

If you want to switch me and jcb, I'll volunteer to collect votes for Game 1.

Rules?! We don't need no stinkin' rules. Let the fines be levied!