I'm not sure I understood this properly ... the game itself has full press (country specific, but player anonymous) but then this thread has full press too (country anonymous, but player specific)? That sounds like (a) twice the amount of press and (b) an easy way for someone in a different timezone (like me) to become non-anonymous quickly.

Let me think about this before joining.

It's in the OP. You can post in this thread once, and only once, after each season. Not full press. We have not decided whether that post can come from a country (which may or may not be yours) or just in the form of "neutral"commentary on the game. We've had a number of people drop due to buy in and other issues, so still taking people, first come first serve. The other part (game is regular semi-anon full press, and press here is player specific but country anonymous is correct)

Basically its a normal game, except you can come to this thread and do whatever you want. Spill secrets, yell at other players, mock someones moves, pretend you are someone you aren't, anaylze moves... for one post per season.

Actually Erist, can you clairify the Grey press limit, is it once per year, season, or phase(including builds/retreat phases)?

yes it could give up your anonymity, so use it assuming that will happen? Or change up the times you craft each to maintain anonymity? Or use it sparingly? Its all up to you how you will gain a benefit/utilize an added feature.

Well, let's say phase,that seems the most straightforward way to do it. But open to less often if people think that is too much. (perhaps just before spring and after spring, silence during retreat//build phases?)

I would vote for 24 hours after Spring moves, and 24 hours after fall moves. Maybe an initial one during opening negotiations...

sorry i meant within 24 hrs after each of those moves.

I liked Draug's idea in which the players had to message a 3rd party who would then post reports from Geneva.

yea that would be pretty cool, but requires a 3rd party that is pretty active and willing.

Wasn't actually my idea. I just volunteered to be one of the messengers and potentially fuck with the messages ever so slightly.

So we're including retreats/builds in the grey press limit? If there is a retreat after the spring phrase, we're not allowed to post our one message for that season here until after the retreat is over? And same for builds?

I think it would be more fun if grey press were allowed after each phase, but that means it`s possible for 2 posts per spring season and 3 per fall, so I understand if we want to keep it to just one message for the spring and one for the fall. I'm not sure I could keep up with all the grey press for a very busy season...

I do like the idea of sending them through a proxy, but that creates extra work for someone. How about using something like Etherpad? (http://openetherpad.org/). We could create one and share it with the players only. Then, at the end of the 24 hour post move period, the contents of the pad are copied and pasted in this thread. We'd be anonymous in the pad, but there is IP recognition - so one person couldn't write more than one press without trying to cheat the system.

I kind of like the added dimension of seeing which players say what.

Well it's an experiment. If it adds a fun dimension we can explore variations in the future. Let's do the grey press after each move phase but not builds/retreats. Just has to be in before the move expires, too complicated to keep track of another time limit. If people want to do the etherpad idea, which I also like, I'll be happy to copy the messages over, but I also kind of like the strange semi-anonymity of knowing what people are saying what, but not what nations.

So during the Spring moves 48 hour phase length I can do grey press once and during the Autumn moves 48 hour phase length I can do grey press? If its builds/retreats you've missed your chance. We should probably all agree to label our grey press with the phase its intended for at the top just to make going back easier.

It doesn't seem like you've gotten a 7th player so I'm up for joining.

I think these rules are good. Grey press once during each phase is easy to keep track off. Let's do this!

Okay so now we have

1) Erist
2) Gen Lee
3) Democoanarchis
4) StackelbergFollower
5) VirtualBob (??)
6) AviF (??)
7) RampantLion

I think I am going to bow out ... too many questions (and too little time).

I would be interested some time in a true grey press game ... no in-game messaging, but country-anonymous (though player-specific) posts in the forum thread. And since it is "press", the posts should read like they were submitted by a foreign correspondent, beginning "Dateline Madrid (or wherever): ..."

1) Erist
2) Gen Lee
3) Democoanarchis
4) StackelbergFollower
5) AviF (??)
6) RampantLion
7)

Organize it. I'd play that game too :)

Ya, I am going to be in this. It sounds like fun

Ok, you all have 24 hours to find a 7th :)

Wait, wasn't SYnapse going to play too? I didn't see him change his mind.

SYnapse only has ten points right now....maybe that's why?

yeah, he opted out because of the buyin. we can find one more though, i'm sure of it :)

bump for new day. need one more.

Last chance, will check site when I wake up tmrw before time runs out....if not, well I still think it would be fun sometime!

I'm game, but don't understand the benefit of grey press over public press. In a no press game, maybe... If you need one more, I'll give it a spin.

alright, didn't grab this in time, will set it up again now that we have 7. benefit is that public press is not country-anonymous on web dip.