[MN-dip] Thanks for coming out to diplomacy today

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On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 11:57:05PM -0600, Chad Walstrom wrote:
> Jeremy <Diplomacy at lizakowski.com>  wrote:
> > Rather than a fixed duration game, I might suggest a blind-voting
> > method:  
> 
> So after each Winter Adjustment, you would have everyone vote?  This
> involves an extra step that takes time away from the game; I'm betting
> 5 minutes on average.  You would have to make it procedural so that no
> one would "gain knowledge" that a player wants to leave by putting it
> up to vote.

Jeremy, I'm with Chad on that not making much sense.  Since "Draws
include all survivors" there's no difference between a "should we
end now" vote and a normal draw vote, which anyone can propose at any
time and has to be unanimously positive like a "should we end now" vote
would have to be (as it's a rule modification).

The only problem I've got with the tapering victory conditions (which
I've played and enjoyed greatly) is that it alters the likelihood of
solos relative to draws (increases it) making the statement "I got a
solo as Russia once" require a record-book asterisk.

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