Obviously, every player would make exactly the same choices and decisions. Since Diplomacy as a game is remarkably balanced, it would end in a draw.

Not really. Since every player would have different countries, they'd make different moves, and once the game started, they'd all be dealing with different realities.

True, but each would have basicly the same personality so would be predictable to the other.

Really? How many turns is it before you are certain of another player's personality? Unless it is someone I know I've played before, or I've sneaked a peak at their history, it tends to take me a while before I'm anywhere near certain I know the sort of player he is. That could just be inexperience, of course.

Are these Parallel Universes all identical? If not, it's hard to image the parallel me will also be identical. If we are slightly different, then outside factors would probably effect the outcome of the game.

If we are all, in fact, identical, then I would say one of my better countries would win.

Lets say the splitting point at which the parallel universes and our universe diverged wa two weeks ago at 3:15 (and why not?) so while your recent experience (ie what you had for breakfast, whether you got a good eight hours sleep last night etc) may be very different, the major features of your lives are essentially the same.

Then we would be able to perfectly predict everything that each other player was going ot do, and that would produce a stalemate.

Maybe you're that predictable, but some of us are creative and spontaneous. : )

Yeah, but you're still predictable to yourself Stu, no one can do something that they couldn't think of!

Deep inside of a parallel universe, it's gettin harder and harder to tell what came first and, underwater where thoughts can breathe easily, far away you were made in a sea, just like me and, christ i'm a sidewinder, i'm a california king....

Well, if I don't KNOW its me against me against me aganist me etc., then I'd have to treat them as any other player.

So the only thing I can say for SURE about the game is: it'd take fprever to finish.

Because we'd get up.
Get snacks.
Put some stuff in the microwave.
Sit down to talk for two minutes.
Get the stuff out of the microwave to microwave some water for tea.
Talk.
Take out the water and put in the infuser after minutes of agonizing which loose-leaf tea to use this time.
Microwave the first thing for a bit as now its grown cold.
Take that out, microwave the tea for just a tad, its warm but not hot.
Take out the tea.
Get some more snacks.
Talk, and finally decide moves for Spring 1901.
Write down moves and execute.
Analyze in front of each other for ten minutes.
Order a pizza.
Hang up before it's ordered.
Debate what to get on the pizza.
Decide and re-order the pizza.
Discuss Fall 1901.
Bathroom.
Turn on TV to see Mets playing.
Get scorecards, hats, and pens.
Turn on the XM Radio.
Tune to the Mets game.
Discuss the Diplomacy and Mets game at the same time and intermittently while snacking and keeping score.
Argue about the Mets game.
Argue about baseball history.
Pizza arrives.
Cut up the pizza.
Get cans of coke.
Microwave another cup of water for more tea.
Get jelly beans.
Groan at the Mets.
Make the second cup of tea.
Tea evokes a discussion of opera which turns to plays which turns to philosophy.
Four hours from when the game started, Fall 1901 ends.

That's just 1901. ;)

+1 obiwanobiwan

Austria would win. For some reason I like allying with Austria. He'd get a lot of favors.

Turkey would win. I'm imagining that natural country strengths would come into play, and I like to think that Turkey is my strongest country.

If I take Octavious' suggestion and have the diverging point two weeks ago, then simple differences in when I woke up, what I've eaten, and whether or not I have had any caffeine might also influence the results.

It would be weird because I imagine the seven of us would be online roughly the same times, so there'd likely be a flurry of activity and simple things like who talks to who first might be quite influential. In that case, England might have an advantage simply because if the seven of us started talking to countries left to right on the tabs at the top then England might get plans in motion the earliest, and most likely with France as that would be his leftmost tab.

Cyrano, I get what you mean, but I don't think it would really work like that. I don't actually think I can predict what I'm going to do when I'm the same person, let alone if I'm in a separate body and mind. There would be a parallelism in the sense that we would have a tendency to think the same things, but I don't think you'd be able to predict what the other yous would end up doing. Not because of free will, but because of sheer uncertainty due to random influences and insufficiently powerful introspective abilities.

You don't really know yourself *that* well. You only know who you think you are. A lot of ego and rationalization comes into your perception of yourself, such that in many ways, others may catch a smidgen more insight into who you are than you might due to your obvious bias. If you actually met yourself you might be unpleasantly surprised by your personality, not including the general shock of meeting yourself, you might dislike your other self as much as people often dislike hearing their own voices as everyone else hears them. When I say "you", I don't mean you in particular, but the equivalent of the third person "one".

I can't say which country would probably win, since I tend to vary my opening moves, but I can say that England, Italy, and Austria would probably loose, as those tend to be my worse countries.
In the end, it would end up being a 2 or 3 way draw probably.

@ Chrispminis:
I love that last paragraph!

In this game, how I would guess my opponents' moves would be by looking at their countries and seeing what I would do in their situation, what sort of plans come into mind. That would probably cause a tendency with all the me's to try doing certain things randomly in order to confuse the other me's. This would result in extra caution on the everyone's part, thus causing the game to slow down and encouraging a draw.