Don't forget British Summer Time/Daylight Savings.

ninjak wrote:Alliances in defcon??? I think you guys are forgetting that defcon is played on the internets where most people act like they are twelve. If someone tries to ally with me I'll be like "stfu noobfag, eat nukes n die u tard".

You're going to go far.

I believe that simplicity in games is a beautiful thing. As a board game designer myself, I am a fervent believer in the merits of the KISS philosophy - and that's not counting the many many problems that overcomplexity can cause. In my opinion, DEFCON is much better suited for being simplistic. If ...

ninjak wrote:Building a fallout shelter is a little too much, you don't see CS players bringing their computer to Afghanistan to play or Starcraft players wanting to play on the space shuttle.

I want to play on the space shuttle.

In Diplomacy, you displace units to other countries. in Defcon, you obliterate them. in Diplomacy, you take cities by occupying them, and in turn you get one extra army/navy to use. In Defcon, you annialate cities with nuclear weapons and get points for the casualties caused. In Diplomacy, the stag...

Montyphy wrote:

Daxx wrote:It's because I'm using Linux...

No it's not

Okay, what is it then?

I'm guessing what you guys are seeing is something other than the ASCII gibberish that I'm getting. Unless that's somehow pertinent... Nah, I got that too. right-click -> save link as It is a .wmv . Firefox probably doesn't know how to handle it. xander Heheh, I know why I'm getting it, and it's no...

KingAl wrote:I'm guessing what you guys are seeing is something other than the ASCII gibberish that I'm getting. Unless that's somehow pertinent...

Nah, I got that too.

From what I've seen, I doubt moving units around en masse is really that necessary even in the faster games. The units don't appear to move that quickly.

Check the link in my sig for other atomic-disaster-movies :) edit: hm seems like it doesnt wanna show :P >Sweet list of atomic disaster-movies!< Sigs are disabled on the IV, Darwinia, and Defcon forums. They are enabled on the Uplink forum. Avatars are disabled on the Uplink forum. They are enabled...

I'd love to bomb London, being a Brit myself, but I guess seeing it in DEFCON's graphics lacks some of the impact.

I'm guessing that a competant Russian player could keep a strong Europe under wraps, or else Europe would likely become the major target. Imbalances in starting position can often be compensated for in diplomactic relations emergant from gameplay - a strong power is more likely to get attacked than ...

Personally, I don't know whether I'd want my ass handed to me the first time I play by real people. At least the computer won't judge you for being a clueless newbie. So I'll be sticking with singleplayer until I feel confident that I can handle myself against real people. Either that or just play i...

This game seems to draw parallels to my favourite board game of all time, Diplomacy. Are there any other Dip players around? I can forsee much of Diplomacy's negotiaton theory and skills being portable to this game.