Oops - I've just realised that sean's game is no global press - not what I wanted! Sean - are you insistent on no global press?

useless i followed you into it

i thought braveheart's suggestion that the no global would be fun because two allies could be strategically broken up thus hey couldn't communicate was a pretty neat idea. without the global press to get ahead you need to maintain that strategic link.

I'm insistent on sean's game being no global press- as it was part of the rules that I joined for.

This is probably the gayest variant I've heard of :)
No offence meant (we don't have a 'political correctness' epidemic where I live)
I like it :)

Mine has global press!! Come and join.

Joined the second game.

Wow, I think I missed both of those.

Joined both. Seems like an interesting variant.

there both open still

Are they? Neither link is working....

you need to put the password in the one in it is wrong

i mean the one thats starred out needs to be deleted and the proper one put in

What?

Never mind, I joined Touch it.

Ok - rules for our game are under discussion - I've recalled the exact ones, and have posted them in the global.

Which game is this? Not the one I'm in...

I joined "Touch It."

Are we doing once per year, no two consecutive seasons, once per season, or what?

Also, are we implementing the Single Simple Sentence rule?

This is what I posted in our game. I stress that these were the rules we played in the original two versions of this game, and they worked *extremely* well:

1.) A country can have one global message per turn of 200 words max.
2.) A country can only communicate with another country if:
a) An army is in a neighbouring province to another army (e.g. German army Ruhr, French army Burgundy)
(b) A 'bounce' has occured in the previous turn - (e.g. German A Ruhr- Burgundy, French A Paris - Burgundy - a bounce occurs).
(c) If a fleet is in contact with another fleet (e.g. French Fleet MAO, English Fleet Irish Sea)

3.) Fleets may contact armies at any time if they are in a neighbouring province.

4.) Armies cannot contact fleets unless the fleet of another nation is in a coastal province e.g.French fleet in Wales may contact English Army London. An army CANNOT contact a fleet in a sea province at any time

Hope that helps - these rules were well tested in Touch Dip 1 and 2, the two original variant trials.

Sean - sorry it's taken me so long to post to your original query regarding the rules! I went back to the actual games to check the press.

4) What if the fleet makes contact? Can the army reply? Perhaps one reply per message?

200 words seems like a very arbitrary limit. I think the single simple sentence would be easier and involve less word counting....

Bugger... missed it!! Perhaps next time.

One spot left in the game I created. Come join!

8-)

I'm in!

I'd like to know the exact rules so if they could be stated in the Global chat...

Pandarsenic - if a fleet at sea makes contact with an army on land (e.g. English Fleet MAO, French army Brest), then only the English can talk to the French, NOT vice versa.

In 'Inappropriate Touching' we are trying it without global messages (i.e. no rule 1). This is going to be interesting!

I must say Italy and Austria have a somewhat unfair advantage in Spring 01, but this should prove interesting.

Q@cgwhite: Is it so that the English fleet can only talk to the French army and it cannot react or does the English fleet require to start negotiations?

No - it's simply that the the conversation is one way! England can talk to France, but France cannot reply.

If they want closer co-operation, then they must bounce. For example, England might say - I want to talk to you in detail. Let my fleet into Gascony this turn, and then we can talk about an alliance in full between us. Or he can communicate his thoughts, and hope that France will ally with him.

I'm a bit disappointed about the no global messages in the game I'm in - it really made the first two games, but I guess I'll have to see how these play out.

Ursa, I have copy-pasted the rules in the global chat. Also, as everyone in the game has been in this thread, we could also discuss rules questions here to avoid clutter in the global chat.

Thank you for your answers :)