Designer Notes for Diplomacy on Vassal version 2.7.

Michel Decré (mirec_delech on vassalengine group in yahoo!groups).

Version 0.1

Date: Sep 6, 2006

Current “best” version.

User’s Guide and About added.

Setups loaded and Palette hidden.

Version 0.10b

Date: Sep 3, 2006

User’s Guide and About added.

Setups loaded and Palette hidden.

Realized while making the User’s Guide that the Coastal Centers would cause problems because the inland region center could be controlled by A, the northern coast by B, and the southern coast by C, for instance, all reporting to the VP window.

- Solving that issue by creating coastal center prototypes and pieces.

- Re-installed Moved marker.

Version 0.09test

Date: Aug 28, 2006

- Added button images

- Saved several game setups

- Corrected bug on Russian “send to national center” commands for mos, sev, war

- Added victory points window and inventory window.Abandonned idea to develop own victory points engine. Used the inventory tool.

- Coupled the center control to the winter season.

- Copyright added on map and map included in 350 dpi res.

- Removed round nation counters

Version 0.08test

Date: Aug 26, 2006

- Test version to develop the victory points engine

- Hasbro TM and Parker 1977 copyright added on map, but somehow the jpg rescaling didn’t respect the dpi setting of the previous version. Needs to be corrected. Restored to older Diplo-map.jpg.

Version 0.08

Date: Aug 26, 2006

- Turn tracker from Brent Easton’s Turntracker v1.8

Version 0.07

Date: Aug 26, 2006

- Added national counters. (will prove redundant when control centers will have been coded in later version for Victory Points management)

Version 0.06

Date: Aug 26, 2006

- Non-controlling powers have no access to other powers’ pieces

- Referee can delete pieces

- Removed the Pre-defined setups at this stage, as it prevents from starting a New Game

- Added restricted commands to hide “Back to Pool” when in Pool

- Added commands when in Pool that allow to send pieces directly to their national centers

Version 0.05

Date: Aug 26, 2006

- Tries to sort out the problem of non-controlling powers: restricted access must be specified after the definition of the commands to be restricted

- Adds the designer notes file.

- Lots of problems occurred due to not clear effect of adding properties to all pieces in palette menu... austria smeared everyting away... :(

To Do list

• Check all report messages
• Possibly complement the irregular grid with additional points to better cover the actual map, but then follow the advices on the module FAQ, couple to overlay map for abbreviations, and do not attach units to the grid.
• Forbid pieces in pool to move elsewhere but a home center
• Prevent misplacement of armies and fleets
• Create overlay map with accepted abbreviations for regions
• Show newly placed/removed units at Winter (or send message)
• Create negotiation rooms where more than two players can send and view each other’s messages to negociate, possibly including a lock on the room.
• Create an order recording tool
• Make Tutorial

Credits

About image from Bradley Eng-Kohn on www.boardgamegeek.com ‘s Diplomacy page