How to Play

DAIDE QuickStart Diplomacy is a package that installs everything you need to play Diplomacy against the computer AI. Once installed, just run the QuickStart Diplomacy program and click "Start the Game". And then you're playing a game of Diplomacy against 6 computer players.

When you are comfortable with the play, and want to progress deeper into the available DAIDE options, come back and intstall the individual components that make up the DAIDE system as outlined in Option 2.

Installation Option 2

For playing just 1 human against bots, or over the internet, what you need are the following Downloads:

AIserver (used to start games)

AImapper (used to connect a human interface to the server)

Albert (the Ai, that will control other powers.)

After installing the AIserver, AImapper and Albert:

1) Simply start the AIserver and initiate a "Standard" game with default settings by clicking the "NEW GAME" button at the bottom.

2) Then start the AImapper to attach a human interface. By default the mapper will look for a locally started game. All you need to do is select "player" on the right bar, and type in your name. Then click the "Connect" button.

3) If you flip back to the AiServer window, you should see yourself listed as "Human Player V0.39" "YourName" "Ready to Play"

4) Then start 6 instances of Albert by double clicking desktop icon. They will automatically look for the server on your machine. These 6 instances of the AI program are necessarily separate. This ensures that each power is completely autonomous, and all communications are directed through the server.

Other Help

If you are new to Diplomacy you can find rules here, and a guide by Richard Sharp here.

Within the Aimapper there is help on entering orders... but it is all graphical so very quick once you get used to it. Depending on your computer, the Albert bots may be a bit slow. There are options to reduce the amount of thinking time. But if you are having real problems getting started with Albert, you can download KissMyBot.

Now if you want to play against other humans. There is a community of players at a Yahoo Group called RTNOW, where games often form.