Diplomacy Mechanism *Rejected*
Posted: Sat Sep 04, 2010 11:15 pmConcise description:
Specifics/Details:
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
- Create an option during game creation to allow Diplomacy or not.
- Create an in-game mechanism to form various diplomatic negotiations with other players.
Specifics/Details:
- Allow players to send proposed treaties to other players in the game. The options for the treaty would be selected from menu's with no typing on the user's part.
- Selection 1: Whether the treaty is global or specific to certain territories. (There are instances when you wish to declare a truce with a player or merely a peace on one border with them.)
- Selection 2: Select for how long the treaty is to last. (I would assume that a number of rounds would be the only useful mechanic)
- Selection 3: Select the actions that may not be done. This should include deployment and reinforcement (obviously only for truces dealing with specific territories) or assaulting.
- There would probably be a need for two columns of the above selections (one for each player's part of the treaty).
- Hopefully, a mechanism will be devised for canceling an offer, amending an offer, and a counter-proposition.
- All of the above would be posted in the game log for all players to see.
- A mechanic would be set in place to make it impossible for a treaty to be broken.
- All diplomacy in games without this feature would be against the rules. Diplomacy through currents means with this option as a part of the game should remain legal.
How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
- Diplomacy in games would be set in stone. People could now have an assurance that they would not be back-stabbed.
- People who wish to play games without people organizing against one another would have a way to do so.
- No one would be forced to use this feature as it would be completely optional and could be ignored even in games with it enabled.
- Forming a truce with another player would be a lot simpler as many people do not read the chat every time they log in to play or do so after their turns.
- The "human" aspect of the game would greatly increase as many more people who do not currently do so would choose to use diplomacy as a part of their strategy.
