Diplomacy Study

[Sperate]

Hello, some of you may know me from Blizzforums.

Right now, I'm conducting a study on some various aspects of Diplomacy games.

Please answer the following questions twice; once as a player, once as a GM.

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:



Small (2-6 players) game?
Medium (7-11) game?
Large (12-18) game?
Huge (18+) game?

What size of game do you prefer:



Small or medium?
Medium or large?
Large or huge?
Out of all?

Answer the following questions simply as you.

Do you play for:



Fun?
Ratings/Ranking?
Both?
No reason whatsoever?

Do you prefer (in a standard game):



Austria or Italy?
England or Turkey?
France or Russia?
Germany or France?
Out of all?

Do you have:



A basic knowledge of the rules?
A understanding of some of the underlying principals of the game?
Most?
A knowledge of some basic facts of the board?
Advanced facts?
Encyclopedic knowledge?

Do you consider yourself a:



Poor, Fair, Good, or Great player?
Carebear or Cutthroat player?

Do you prefer:



PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
PBM or FtF games?
Forum-based or PBEM games?
Out of all?
Standard or Variant games?


If you prefer not to answer these questions publicly, then feel free send to me an e-mail or PM.

[TheGreatBrain]

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:



Small (2-6 players) game?
Medium (7-11) game?
Large (12-18) game?
Huge (18+) game?


Small- Player: 5-6 GM: 5
Medium- Player: 4-5 GM: 4
Large- Player: 4 GM: 4
Huge- Player: 3 GM: 3
What size of game do you prefer:


Small or medium?
Medium or large?
Large or huge?
Out of all?


1. Player: medium GM: medium
2. Player: large GM: medium
3. Player: Large GM: Large
4. Player: Large GM: Large


Do you play for:



Fun?
Ratings/Ranking?
Both?
No reason whatsoever?


For fun.

Do you prefer (in a standard game):



Austria or Italy?
England or Turkey?
France or Russia?
Germany or France?
Out of all?


1. Italy
2. Turkey
3. France
4. France
5. Turkey

Do you have:



A basic knowledge of the rules?
A understanding of some of the underlying principals of the game?
Most?
A knowledge of some basic facts of the board?
Advanced facts?
Encyclopedic knowledge?


1. Yes.
2. Yes.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. Yes.
6. No.

Do you consider yourself a:



Poor, Fair, Good, or Great player?
Carebear or Cutthroat player?


1. Good
2. Carebear

Do you prefer:



PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
PBM or FtF games?
Forum-based or PBEM games?
Out of all?
Standard or Variant games?


1. Not sure what this is, exactly.
2. Never played either.
3. Forum.
4. Forum.
5. Variant.

[Whiteknight]

Well, hey there orodreth. Hopefully you will continue to post in this forum. Seeing as I knew you before, I'll take this.

Seeing as I have never been a GM (yet) I will only answer as a player.

Q1: Seasons a month.

For all of them, I have no personal preference. I will play it out the way the GM likes it.

Q2:
-medium
-medium
-large
-medium

Q3: I play for fun or no reason whatsoever.

Q4: I pretty much don't really care what country I get, seeing that it is usually random, I don't really want to become attached to a particular country. But for this thing, I'll try to choose...
-Austria
-England
-Russia
-Germany
-Russia

Q5:
-yes
-somewhat
-a bit
-yes
-a bit
-a bit

Q6:
-poor (I havn't played for 2 and a half months)
-carebear :)

Q7: Since I've only played forum-based, I can't answer that.
-I prefer standard.

[Sperate]

Thanks for your replies, guys!

[Modred]

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:
Player: at least 8, preferably 10 for all sizes
GM: same

What size of game do you prefer:
Player:Medium & Large
GM:Small & Medium

Do you play for:
Fun and Ratings

Do you prefer (in a standard game)[/b]:
Austria or Italy?
Austria
England or Turkey?
England
France or Russia?
France
Germany or France?
Germany
Out of all?
England

Do you have:
All of the above

Do you consider yourself a:
Good player,
and if Carebare = 0 and Cutt-throat = 10, I'd be around an 8

PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
Judged
PBM or FtF games?
FtF
Forum-based or PBEM games?
PBEM
Out of all?
PBEM
Standard or Variant games?
Standard

[Mattimeo]

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:



Small (2-6 players) game?
Medium (7-11) game?
Large (12-18) game?
Huge (18+) game?



2 or 3 a week
2 a week
1-2 a week
1 a week


What size of game do you prefer:


Small or medium?
Medium or large?
Large or huge?
Out of all?


Medium
Medium
Large
Medium

Answer the following questions simply as you.

Do you play for:



Fun?
Ratings/Ranking?
Both?
No reason whatsoever?


Fun.

Do you prefer (in a standard game):



Austria or Italy?
England or Turkey?
France or Russia?
Germany or France?
Out of all?


Austria
Turkey
Russia
France
Turkey

Do you have:



A basic knowledge of the rules?
A understanding of some of the underlying principals of the game?
Most?
A knowledge of some basic facts of the board?
Advanced facts?
Encyclopedic knowledge?

Do you consider yourself a:

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
I like to think so ;)



Poor, Fair, Good, or Great player?
Carebear or Cutthroat player?


Good
Carebear (unless i'm pissed ;))

Do you prefer:



PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
PBM or FtF games?
Forum-based or PBEM games?
Out of all?
Standard or Variant games?


What?
What?
Forum?
Fourm
Standard

~Don't Panic

[OboeGuru]

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:

Small (2-6 players) game?
Medium (7-11) game?
Large (12-18) game?
Huge (18+) game?


Player: 7-8 | GM: 7
Player: 6-7 | GM: 6
Player: 4-6 | GM: 5
Player: 4 | GM: 4

What size of game do you prefer:

Small or medium?
Medium or large?
Large or huge?
Out of all?


Player: Medium | GM: Medium
Player: Medium | GM: Large
Player: Large | GM: Large
Player: Medium | GM: Large

Do you play for:

Fun?
Ratings/Ranking?
Both?
No reason whatsoever?

It's all fun and games.
Do you prefer (in a standard game):

Austria or Italy?
England or Turkey?
France or Russia?
Germany or France?
Out of all?


Italy
Turkey
France
Germany
Turkey

Do you have:

A basic knowledge of the rules?
A understanding of some of the underlying principals of the game?
Most?
A knowledge of some basic facts of the board?
Advanced facts?
Encyclopedic knowledge?

I'd put myself very close to choice 5.
Do you consider yourself a:

Poor, Fair, Good, or Great player?
Carebear or Cutthroat player?


I like to think I'm pretty good.
Usually somewhere in the middle, but I tend to lean towards the cutthroat.

Do you prefer:

PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
PBM or FtF games?
Forum-based or PBEM games?
Out of all?
Standard or Variant games?


What?
Huh?
Forum-based.
Forum-based.
Variant definitely, but a standard can sometimes hit the spot.

[BlackHawk]

Only doing as a player, have never GM'ed :shiftyr:

How many seasons a month is your preference for a:


Small (2-6 players) game?
Medium (7-11) game?
Large (12-18) game?
Huge (18+) game?


1. 6
2. 8
3. 10
4. 12

What size of game do you prefer:


Small or medium?
Medium or large?
Large or huge?
Out of all?


1. Medium
2. Large
3. Large
4. Large

Do you play for:


Fun?
Ratings/Ranking?
Both?
No reason whatsoever?


Both, but it's more important for it to be fun.

Do you prefer (in a standard game):


Austria or Italy?
England or Turkey?
France or Russia?
Germany or France?
Out of all?


1. Italy
2. England
3. Russia
4. France
5. Britian

Do you have:


A basic knowledge of the rules?
A understanding of some of the underlying principals of the game?
Most?
A knowledge of some basic facts of the board?
Advanced facts?
Encyclopedic knowledge?


1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Yes
4. Yes
5. Sort of
6. Nope

Do you consider yourself a:


Poor, Fair, Good, or Great player?
Carebear or Cutthroat player?


1. Good
2. Carebear, though I won't hesitate to be Cutthroat.

Do you prefer:


PBEM Judge games or PBEM hand-adjucated games?
PBM or FtF games?
Forum-based or PBEM games?
Out of all?
Standard or Variant games?


1. Don't know what either is.
2. Ditto
3. Forum
4. Forum
5. Both are fun, depends on the variant.

[Modred]

For all of you deprived persons: PBEM means Play By EMail. Judge refers to the Ken Lowe adjucation program for PBEM diplomacy. If you snoop around diplom.org, you'll find links to most KenLowe judges and to the DPjudge, a "souped-up" version of Ken Lowe.

Got tired of people saying "What, huh?"

[Sperate]

But it was so funny. :-P