Hello,
I have only recently discovered Diplomacy (a couple months or so), but
I've been doing quite a bit of reading and I am very excited to play
my first game. Unfortunately I am a poor college student, and can't
afford the $100 price of the "Real Thing" on Ebay, though I am keeping
my eyes peeled.
I've read quite a bit about email/online and postal play. From what
I've gathered it seems that postal play is more rewarding than email
play, however, postal play involves a significant time commitment. I
don't particularly mind this commitment, however being a complete
neophyte I am not sure postal play would be so rewarding. Also there
seems to be multiple options for email play, primarily, judged or non
judged (by bots). It seems the judged games (like at floc.net) are the
more popular option, but the required knowledge of syntax for
submitting orders and communicating is somewhat daunting. There are
other options I've read about too for online play. For example,
phpdiplomacy.net and 'realtime' games that take place on an instant
messenger, though the latter seems to seldom be found.
So, I was hoping I could get some thoughts on how/where a good
starting place would be for a novice to start playing?
Regards,
Casey
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