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Author:charlesf
Posted:May 20, 2010 at 6:27 pm
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Just a curious question for some of those that have played a bunch of different games - do you find that you perform better or worse at one or the other?



My Diplomacy experience is rather limited, but no, I don't think my gaming performance has much at all to do with the variant at hand. The same basic skills are required in any Diplomacy variant.

I carefully study whatever scenario is thrown at me. Gaining a deeper understanding of the game's topography etc. is what's among the most fun aspects of playing Diplomacy. It's incidentally also the key to designing decent Diplomacy Variants, which I enjoy doing arguably at least as much as actually playing.

That being said, I have played only a very limited number of Standard Diplomacy games in my life. I'm a variant guy. Though I haven't played all that many variant games either - a function of playing at most two games at a time and not having been engaged in the hobby for a good number of years.

Anyway, for me, Standard is a bit of an irrelevance. The 1900 variant is imo the better "Standard". No other nation other than Germany remotely interests me in Standard, whereas I find all of 1900's powers sufficiently interesting.

This message is in reply to post 16116:

Just a curious question for some of those that have played a bunch of different games - do you find that you perform better or worse at one or the other?

My personal experience is that I am TERRIBLE at variants. I seem to perform much better at the standard games. I just can't place if it is a comfort level with having played them enough to understand the dynamic of alliances and their nuances (where I typically haven't played any one variant twice) or if it is that I tend to play less aggressively or what.

Would love to hear others' thoughts regarding this.

G

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variants vs. standard (garry.bledsoe) May 07, 01:30 pm

variants vs. standard (Kenshi777) May 07, 02:24 pm

variants vs. standard (FuzzyLogic) May 10, 08:25 am

variants vs. standard (Kenshi777) May 10, 11:25 am

variants vs. standard (txurce) May 10, 11:31 am

variants vs. standard (Sean2010) May 10, 12:46 pm

variants vs. standard (txurce) May 10, 01:00 pm

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