i'd do it. how do i do so? is it the same login as here? or do i have to make a new one?

I'm in. You have to make a new account.

@gilgatex: could you tell more about goonDiplomacy? It sounds like fun, with many variants!

i am keen- how do we get to log in and how does it work?

Woah. Sounds hectic....

Five more players needed! Come and rule the world... no kidding!

Only two more players needed!

One more now...

What a sweet variant, and if the chat code can handle 17 players it has to be pretty robust :-o

well, i am the last one :D

but, is this variant site approved by webdip admins?

2nd question? why not to integrate the variants, if possible, in this site?

Because kestas has a life?

Seriously though, he has more than enough on his plate. I highly doubt he has time to integrate and vet code from other developers and then deal with the headaches during the next update cycle - not to mention bug hunting when things go to hell...

a 17 player variant is lovely
i remember the time I played a Chaos variant (34 players)
i was london, started with an army ,and got eliminated in 1901 :)

ok stratagos, i understand.
But at least, does he approves it?

Kestas has GNUed the code, so anyone is free to take it and implement their own version, as long as they don't claim it as their own:

http://webdiplomacy.net/faq.php#faq44

Game on!

To answer the questions about licensing and Kestas:

1) Yes, I asked him before I posted about testing for my variants

2) Kestas is very busy right now (finals are coming up), and there has been a variant patch available for 6 months now by jayp (which I'm using), but Kestas would prefer to write it himself, so everyone will just have to wait until that happens.

3) webDiplomacy uses the GNU AGPL open source license. It does not mean that I have to give credit to the original authors (but I do anyway, you're probably confusing it with the creative commons license). I can even charge for people to use my site if I want. Open source does not always mean free.

Open source does mean, however, that the *code* I write in modifying the original must be made available to the public. And I've done just that here: http://forum.webdiplomacy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=374 . All my modifications (instant messaging, map tweaks, home page, etc.) are there, and Kestas, when he has time, will implement most of those changes here :) I plan to convert all my variants to whatever system Kestas creates for use here.

damn... wish I had logged in in time to play-test this... would have been awesome.

@Perry - I played a Chaos game on the Cat23 days... was Serbia and ended in a 4-way draw I had 16 dots and the bastards stalemated me =P one of the craziest games I've played in my life ;) loved it.

I looked through your site - it's very impressive and I am looking forward to the time when those variants are available here.

I'm trying to start an account on that site, but it keeps saying the anti spamming code is wrong. This is with both ambiguous letters (l (L) and I (i)) and obvious ones (a, x, r...)

Oh my god, OMGNSO isn't a real person, he, it, whatever is just a script running on some hackers computer!

wow.... i never would have suspected it.... incredible.

Alderian +1

Alderian: Given that, I'm going to infect your computer and use your name to get on the site.

For those of you that missed the 17-player variant, I have a 34-player Chaos variant up, hot off the presses: http://careyj.com/dip/board.php?gameID=33

Holy crap, chaos is insane! I'm game