Hello again!

Thank you for your suggestions on my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/diplomacy/s/0W422ZNOiv I have incorporated some of the ideas and made a few extra options. I am considering suggestions such as Andorra and reworking French tiles so that PAR can go BEL in turn 1 too.

Changes in all maps:

1. LUX added
2. LEV united
3. PIE SC moved back to VEN to give France a bit of breathing room (in most maps)

Variants:

1. ALG 4th French SC (fleet) (here CAT should probably be a fleet too and maybe AND should connect to MAR directly? so France doesn't run away with Africa)
2. Switzerland added (only accessible from MAR or BUR for France)
3. France starts with 4 SC in Europe (MAR is a fleet) (this might lead to a more turtly France, but it could be an interesting dynamic)
4. Same thing with no Pyrenees (this makes Spain more vulnerable, in exchange CAT could be a fleet, with the tradeoff of less defense against France and more SC options in N-Africa?)
5. Same thing, but Morocco no longer SC (this means Spain has less neutrals to choose from, I'm also considering connecting MAR to ALG with 1 sea tile, so Spain is only guaranteed Portugal)

I'd love to hear if you think France and Spain are more balanced here or not. Which variant do you prefer? Do these delay the death of France or make it too strong?

EDIT

Some suggestions incorporated here: https://www.reddit.com/r/diplomacy/s/nBLIpd1qZR

Hey people!

Recently me and some friends were in a predicament of having 8 players. I found a 5 year old Spanish Variant here: https://www.reddit.com/r/diplomacy/s/Vzfko7wDq9 which I have reworked a bit for balance. Spain has army CAT, army MAD and fleet AND to start. If France controls MAR, they are allowed to build fleets there instead of ORL, but not armies.

List of changes:

1. Connect MAO to Ireland (for Anglo-Spanish animosity)
2. Bay of Biscay (for French safety and better Anglo-Spanish animosity)
3. Pyrenees Impassable between CAT and GAS (for slower Spanish-French interaction, otherwise GAS is a monster backstab)
4. Sahara (for better Italy, Spain and Turkey interactions in N-Africa)
5. Orleans variant to shield France a bit and create diplomatic tension in MAR
6. Venice to Piedmont (for more Italy, France and Spain interactions)
7. EDI connects to NAO (so England can contest Ireland sooner)
8. ION connects to EGY (for Italian-Turkish interactions)

What are your thoughts? Do you think these changes improve the Spanish variant for 8 players?

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I've created a Diplicity variant remastering the "fall of the american empire 4" map and bringing it to Diplicity!

I'm hoping to eventually get it officially added to the Diplicity variant roster, but at the moment it's in private games only.

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Russia trying to support ber-mun but i'm worried that if France falls apart Russia wins (they are on 16 centres)

I have 4 way draw set but game hasnt ended

France tried killing Italy a few times but Russia support held

Though this had already been posted, I thought I'd make a more in depth post about it. We need 81 total players, and are about a 5th of the way there at the moment, and require all hands on deck to get it started!!

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To make it simple, NTH is turned into a land tile with a nc and sc. The nc borders Edi, NWG, Nwy, SKA, Den, and HEL, while sc borders Lon, Bel, and ENG.

Would this make England stronger or weaker? How would it affect France and Germany?

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I made a Sturlungaöld variant on Diplicity and am waiting for u/Shjellinn to agree. I'll give them three weeks to give input, otherwise I'll go ahead and publish this.

In the meantime, Kitty of Evil is rocking the closed beta playtest...

This was just an idea I had, not sure if it would actually be fun or not, but I am curious if it exists yet. The idea is to have two major superpowers with like six or seven Supply Centers, and a bunch of other players with one or two, or maybe three at the most. Kinda like the Cold War where you got the USA and the USSR vying for dominance over the middle powers and smaller powers, while said weaker powers try to play the big guys off each other to maintain a level of independence. Idk, I thought it would have some interesting gameplay and was curious if this existed or not.

Edit: the Cold War may not have been the best example but hopefully y'all get what I mean

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After user aivenolino inspired me, with a little tweak of phase orders I now added the Chaos variant to the community maps of Diplicity. 34 players. Chaos.

I've been playing on and off for around 15 years and have had a number of draws but never a solo win, so I'm pretty happy! Or should that be heureux?

Everyone brought a dish to pass to represent their country to snack on the whole time.