Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their System

Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by busterarm on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:41AM (#15993079)

I believe it. Playing Diplomacy, especially for years on Dipbounced, taught me more about strategy and game theory than any other resource. The community of players are all deep thinkers and incredibly ruthless. We used to have 2-3 day Diplomacy sessions back in college where we'd just do game after game and I miss it sorely.

If you were to ask me to pick the most pure strategy games, Diplomacy would be #1 and maybe EVE Online would be #2.

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by raldi on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:29AM (#15994482)

I'm looking for hardcore Diplomacy players to fill out the roster of a one-move-a-week, online-only game. Send me an email if you're interested.

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by busterarm on Saturday December 23, 2017 @03:08PM (#15996010)

Very tempting offer that I passed along to a couple of people. At the moment I'm preparing to change jobs and launch a business simultaneously and I'm trying to reduce any commitments that I have.

Thank you for the offer.

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by CurtMonash on Saturday December 23, 2017 @09:15AM (#15994219)

Martin Shubik once claimed to me that he more or less invented Diplomacy.

I forget whether this was based on his involvement in So Long Sucker, or whether he claimed a more direct connection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So_Long_Sucker

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by sdrothrock on Saturday December 23, 2017 @02:51AM (#15993355)

I've always wished there were a big online community that could consistently keep Diplomacy games going smoothly...

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by raldi on Saturday December 23, 2017 @10:28AM (#15994473)

There is. Send me an email.

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Re:Victory on “The Price Is Right” Made Them Change Their Sy... by sdrothrock on Sunday December 24, 2017 @01:50PM (#16000723)

I couldn't find your e-mail address, so I sent you a tweet.

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