Re: Throwing the game.

I suggest you contact Thorin Munro
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 10:13 PM, Chris Babcock <[email protected]>wrote:

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> From its very beginning, the judge Diplomacy hobby has a tradition of NoNMR
> games. DPJudge breaks from that somewhat with rules like Smart_CD, but NMR
> games throw away a major advantage of automation and allowing a player to
> unilaterally make a NoNMR game into a de facto NMR game is a violation of
> player's rightful expectations that a game will complete without player
> attrition being a more significant factor in the game than skill.
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> How well NoNMR actually works in practice depends on how long it takes to
> fill a replacement position compared to the anticipated deadline. With only
> 52 active games, 1 of which is waiting on replacements, there's not enough
> data to have a serious policy discussion. I just know that, as a GM, I don't
> create NMR games because they don't fill. It's been awhile now since I've
> tried because the player culture on USAK is so competitive about scooping up
> what few replacement positions come up, but I don't know how much USDP may
> be different.
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> Signoff
> Chris
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> They have the same characteristics.
> They just use their skills differently.
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> On Dec 17, 2010 5:17 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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> It seems to me that Russia is merely enforcing the old 'civil disorder'
> rule against himself.  That way he doesn't get a lower committment rating,
> but he ceases to directly influence the game.  I have always preferred the
> 'civil disorder' option to the delays inherent in punishing players for
> abandoning a game, and in having grace periods.  The person who bails cannot
> possibly get any points, he just saves himself time.  Besides, as long as he
> has not been replaced (which has always seemed strange to me) he can submit
> orders for a later turn, and make life harder for those who assume his
> missed turn means  that he has actually bailed.  I think that civil disorder
> is preferable to grace, pause and replacement.  After all, someone who must
> be absent temporarily can always request a delay.
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> United States Marine Corps -
> When you care enough to send th e very best.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Been Chissled" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 3:35:48 PM
> Subject: [dpjudge] Throwing the game.
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