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Date:         Fri, 8 Jan 1993 11:12:27 GMT+0100
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Subject:      A very special new game in EFF judge

        Hello

        I am interested in the existence of the "blind" variant for Diplomacy.
Some months ago, I talked about it with Ken Lowe, administrator of the
Washington judge. He seemed interested for it, but told me he was too busy
to develope the program.

        I am still interested in it, and so much I am, that I am going to
master the game by hand.

        I have asked to David Kovar (administrator of the EFF judge) permission
to create a new game in EFF. He has conceded.

        I have created the game "blind". At first, "blind" seems a standard
gunboat game with white press. However, it is only aparently. In fact the judge
will not moderate the game, but it will be moderated by my own hand.
The judge will only serve to the purpose of mail between players.

        The rules I want to apply are mainly these:

        1) Every country "sees" his own provinces and those bordering them.

        2) Everybody "sees" what is around his own units, wherever they are.

        3) The ruler of a country sees his homeland and bordering
provinces, even if they have been taken by another power (the citizens still
contribute to inform their legal goverment).

        4) Rule 3 applies even if the country has been eliminated.
This gives some role to those countries being eliminated which can pass
information to a power in order to disloge his first invader.

        5) About movements, every country will be informed about the succes
or not of their movements, and if failed, of the reasons of the failure.
They will also be informed about the opposition they have found when
entering any site.

        There are other rules which consider the role of spies, but I would
suggest not to apply them at the first game, moreover if there is no judge
to control it.


        Do you want to join this game?

        Then do next.

        Subscribe as normaly to the game with your preference list. The
judge will adjudicate powers as usualy.

        Once the game starts I will set a very long deadline (and the "set
wait" status) so that the judge will never process the orders. I will give
the deadlines by hand in every mail.

        You may comunicate with other players as usual by mail, but you
all must submit the orders as private mail to the master. Once the deadline
gone (in the standard way) I will process the orders and will tell,
particularly to every power, whether their orders have gone well or not, why do
they, and whatever he can see.


        I suppose there will appear some management troubles as the game
progresses. I will try to solve them as fairly as possible.

        Moreover, if this experience becomes succesful, then it might be a
nice idea to implement the variant in the judge.


                                        Yours sincerely

                                        Joan C. Artes
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