Re: New Press Variant?

The RULE HAMMER_PRESS sounds intriguing, and certainly would create
interesting press.

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Manus Hand <[email protected]> wrote:

>   So hey, I was thinking, and that's never good, because it usually
> leads to coding. My thought process got around meanderingly to the
> existing TOUCH_PRESS rule, in which people can only communicate if
> their units can support each other, and something made me think about
> a possible polar opposite.... Anyway, as long as I didn't make any
> mistakes, it means that a new press-variant is now available in the
> test (but not yet the production) DPjudge. So get a load of this and
> tell me what you DPjudgesters think.
>
> RULE HAMMER_PRESS -- players may not communicate with one another
> whenever they have adjacent units, or when either player has a unit
> adjacent to a supply center owned by the other.
>
> So at game-start, Italy and Austria can't send press to each other,
> for example. And probably a lot of other avenues get shut down after
> Spring 1901.
>
> I think it might strengthen alliances like England-Turkey v. Russia,
> Russia-France v. Germany, etc. Or it might lead to a lot of "hey, can
> you tell Austria this for me?" and thus a lot of "hey, Turkey told me
> to tell you this" lies.
>
> Maybe it's a dumb idea, and maybe it really handicaps Austria (who
> doesn't realy need the handicap). John Woolley was kind enough to
> criticize it thus:
>
> "...seems like one of those arbitrary silly-rules that has no POSSIBLE
> interpretation in terms of the real-life situation. If anything, it
> should be easier to communicate when you're close. But given the
> six-month game turns, a government would have to be SUPERNATURALLY
> ineffective to be unable to get messages around."
>
> I responded saying that it is realistic in an unrealistic way: "We
> will break off all diplomatic relations with you if you are ever in
> any position that could threaten or endanger our troops or cities."
>
> Anyway, arbitrarily silly or not, if you guys don't laugh it back out
> of the code, I'd be thinking of starting a new standard game (on the
> test judge, obviously) if there is interest from seven of you in
> wanting to try it out?
>
> Stab you soon,
> Manus
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