3/27/07: I corrected a few adjacencies in Treaty Ports so feel free to download the new Treaty Ports Diplomacy Realpolitik variant files from the Dossier Dead Drop.*
6/17/06: The first two playtests of the Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant* went well and the game performed as designed. In one game, France swept through Tibet and Central Asia to Mongolia.
Also, I corrected a cosmetic error so that "Angkor and Laos" properly show as a single province (in the old version, the RP adjacencies played correctly but there was a line through the province).
2005: Download Treaty Ports Diplomacy variant Realpolitik (RP) files from the Dossier Dead Drop* (use the Edit feature to implement the Special Builds). Important: I don't know if RP has a limit to the number of items in its variant folder but loading both versions of Treaty Ports initially caused a hang until I removed some other variants that I don't use.
Given the economic nature of the historical Trearty Ports, Speed Treaty Ports might be a prime candidate for a Payola version.
I am working with Manus Hand to develop special builds for Diplomatic Pouch.
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Diplomacy Variant Europa News to June 2007
7/16/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have a corrected adjacency for BAL-STP/SC. Thank Spartan for discovering it during his game.
3/14/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have an improved Deluxe map for easier reading and Spartan (Whispering Gallery forum ID) found a stray alias in the MAP file so both "hol" and "net" now work as abbreviations for Holland (Netherlands). Thank you, Spartan.
9/08/05: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* is fully functional with point-and-click orders and flood-fillable supply centers. REASON: Realpolitik's Region Tool (a design tool, not part of the players' version) did not work so I first manually wrote the RGN file code to provide a version that is fully playable by loading text orders. I since devised a semi-automated system to add the hot zones and flood fills so the current version is full-featured.
Attention: Anyone who downloaded Europa 9/04/05-9/05/05 and has trouble should download the latest version from the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop.* REASON: Apparently, a simple copy-paste update from a web page into the text file causes Realpolitik to hang. The same information typed from scratch into the text file works fine.
See Documentation for full release notes. Get Speed Europa files at The Dossier Dead Drop.*
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
3/14/06: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* have an improved Deluxe map for easier reading and Spartan (Whispering Gallery forum ID) found a stray alias in the MAP file so both "hol" and "net" now work as abbreviations for Holland (Netherlands). Thank you, Spartan.
9/08/05: The latest Europa files at the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop* is fully functional with point-and-click orders and flood-fillable supply centers. REASON: Realpolitik's Region Tool (a design tool, not part of the players' version) did not work so I first manually wrote the RGN file code to provide a version that is fully playable by loading text orders. I since devised a semi-automated system to add the hot zones and flood fills so the current version is full-featured.
Attention: Anyone who downloaded Europa 9/04/05-9/05/05 and has trouble should download the latest version from the Diplomacy variants' Dossier Dead Drop.* REASON: Apparently, a simple copy-paste update from a web page into the text file causes Realpolitik to hang. The same information typed from scratch into the text file works fine.
See Documentation for full release notes. Get Speed Europa files at The Dossier Dead Drop.*
* If you already are viewing the blog in the website's frame, the Dead Drop download link is in the left frame.
Friday, June 15, 2007
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