Yes! thanks for mentioning that. I also realized that. I think I might change that a little. But the main thing that it forces players to do is to communicate.

Yes, it does. I guess that is a plus, unless you get players who just don't communicate.

yeah. gunboat lol!

I have playtested and finalised my variant:

goo.gl/sSCsgf

Would someone be willing to help me implement it? I am willing to do as much of the work as I can but I haven't done it before.

I think variants are uploaded here: http://lab.diplomail.ru/
then come across to this site, but I'm not entirely sure how the system works since I'm not an admin

Made an account and posted in the forum there. Seems to have a similar interface to here and I cant upload anything.

https://imgur.com/a/pMVnN

I tried to make USA and canada less "adjacent"

I tried to sign up on this website multiple times but each time I never get the confirmation email

The finished product looks pretty awesome.

Well not quite finished but still.

Nice work! It looks like it will be a lot of fun to play, and I'll be eager to get a game of it started once it's added to the map pool.

Just a few aesthetic things:
Perhaps you could color in some more of that neutral territory to make it closer to the look of 1937. Places like Juneau, British Colombia, NC Canada, most of Australia, large parts of Africa, and the Caucuses can be colored in without affecting gameplay.

Also, the SC for Texas is in Louisiana, Madrid is on the coast instead of in the center of Spain, and Qatar's is in the UAE.

Gameplay wise, the map looks excellent.

Great job, coming along well. I do feel though that Germany isn't as strong as it should be based on history. Could you set the game 1 year later (1938) after Austria has been absorbed in the Anchluss?

@Vauban - It appeared in my spam, try that.

@ubercatcher - Thanks! I think I close to being done. But it needds to look less messy. Ill see if I can redo the whole thing on a canvas 3x the size to fit in the text.

@Technistar. Texas is bigger so I chose that. I would love it if you could tell me what you mean about coloring in the neutral SCs! :D

@TheAmbassador - I thought about that (austria being German)! But I still wonder if that can cripple Italy.

Also Ambassador, unless everyone attacks her, I can see Germany getting 4 or 5 builds in year 1 effortlessly.

Yeah, I'm just trying to also provide balance to the colonial powers, particularly England, who tend to dominate these style of maps. As Germany lost its colonial possessions after WW1 its in a very limited starting position. I guess I'm also trying to ideally see a map that is more historically accurate with the Germans already ramping up their military in the lead up to WW2, while appeasing powers (England and France) and the Soviets (as Stalin actually trusted Hitler) were slow to the party. Ditto America due to their isolationist policies.

But its your variant, so feel free to do with it what you think is best.

I was talking about the land territory without supply centers. Though if you wish to also have some neutral centers colored in, you can do what South American Supremacy did and have some centers with a neutral box around them but the rest of the land colored in. This is what I plan to do for my Divided States map.

Hey hivemind,
I'm not very interested in setting up a web server to test bug fixes, but I don't mind doing the programming. So is there anyone in here who has the test server set up and would like to help out? Or is there another place to do the tests? I'm trying to fix a bug in the Classic Fog of War variant...

Hey Michael, have you had any luck getting your variant on a lab for testing and development?

Hello Techno, not yet. I was playing on a Band Tour so I haven't checked in in a while. Hopefully I can get someone on labdip.ru.

First game on A World at War (f2f) ends with a 5 way draw after USSR places draw vote due a a 4-way effort against her. Draw between:
USSR, Nazi Germany, USA, Brazil and Thailand.

https://imgur.com/a/sBnrQ

End Results: (Spring 1964)
Soviet Union - 34 Supply Centers
United States - 32 Supply Centers
Nazi Germany - 28 Supply Centers
Thailand - 19 Supply Centers
Brazil - 13 Supply Centers

Basic Summary:

1937-1940:

Russia gets 8 builds in year one and has the highest SC count for the entire game, even after her peak at (40 SCs) in which her decline almost allowed the USA to overtake her.
New diplomacy player played China and was immediately carved up by USSR+Japan.

Alliances:
Germany+Russia+England
England+Turkey
Brazil+USA+Mexico+Thailand


1940-1950

Japan gets demolished by Russia and Thailand. Thailand was able to expand without obstruction due to the Soviet+German stab on England.
Italy and French remained at war until it got them both killed by Nazi Germany.
Turkey succumbed to the Russian flood.
US convinces Brazil to stab Mexico with him and it goes really well.

Remaining Players:

Russia - 35 SCs
Germany - 24 SCs
USA - 23 SCs
Brazil - 13 SCs
Thailand - 12 SCs
England - 12 SCs
Turkey - 4 SCs
France - 2 SCs
Italy - 1 SCs
Mexico - 1 SCs

Hello again everyone, I have made the final adjustments and here is my final product:
https://imgur.com/a/WhKDv

If anyone can help me implement this, it would be truly appreciate. Thanks all.

Correction:
https://imgur.com/a/GvNQK

I'd suggest you PM the admin over on lab.diplomail.ru about it. Send him the map files (including the color map that PHP uses to identify provinces), though he may ask for more. I'm not entirely sure myself and I'll be doing the same in a couple of weeks.

The admin is Flame, btw.

Update:
I have taken the liberty of adapting this variant for vDiplomacy. I kept most things the same, though I changed a few territory names around slightly and clarified a few things on the map. The adaptation did not take long, especially when compared to Divided States, so I'll get the variant over on lab.diplomail.ru to ensure that nothing is missing (such as a skipped adjacency or supply-center). The variant should be ready to go online here in a few weeks.

Starting map (without units):
https://i.imgur.com/cuOAIjp.png

65 SCs to solo (out of 129)

You can join the test game at:
http://lab.diplomail.ru/board.php?gameID=72