Well, the folks around here can inform you about the judges and the Bounced
community. For a selection of non-judge forums, I'll give you the links
page on my web site; there are a bunch of forums you can check out listed
there. The Cat23 link is down, though, so for that, join the cat-23-Ngame
and Cat23-Gchat yahoogroups. The link:
http://diplomiscellany.tripod.com/id2.html
"Casey" <unnamedrambler@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:2df0c4e8-7b12-44a0-9774-ae72809d9192@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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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