Getting Started in Online Diplomacy

Here's my video about getting started in online Diplomacy (as you might expect). Please share with friends who are new to the hobby!

I look forward to your suggestions for further content, and I hope this will inspire some people to get started playing.

(I recommend visiting the forums for additional wisdom)

And credit for any subtitles belongs to Perygl, for Romanian, to pompodopompom, for French, and to Sploack, for Italian.

[ammarshaei]

Thank you for this video, now I'm a lot more confident in starting a game.

[AnglosArentHuman]

My two cents regarding platform choice:
-Don't even bother with webdip if you use a 2-4K and/or ultrawide screen. The website isn't built with those dimensions in mind, and reading an even mildly convoluted map becomes literal torture.
-For phones:
Conspiracy > Diplicity >>> The rest (apps)
Backstabbr >>> The rest (browser)
-The webdip/playdip forums are nice, but they aren't very important in my opinion. As a self-taught Diplomacy player I found third party websites/YouTube videos to be much more useful than either of them for anything that wasn't website-specific.
-Tabletop Simulator is, imo, the superior form of virtual face to face, assuming you can get enough people who own the game and want to play Diplomacy.

[Trigm]

I find it funny you didn't even mention the Turkish openings. They are that simple.

[Emsworth]

Thanks for this. I'm thinking of joining online and this was great

[A-Negative]

This is so helpful to teach the noobs!

[freddyboy]

Loved this game, so sad that it's dying.

[Pannington]

Thanks for the video! Im not sure when I’m going to dip my toes into playing — right now I’m just jumping around a lot of different videos about the game — but this has been helpful.

[victoryfirst]

Handy video, but a bit useless to me, as I am already in online Diplomacy, but still fun to watch, because it's one of your videos!

I was interested when you began to talk about the psychological things behind messages. How you should write your first message, how you can answer some, and I think that is one of the most important concepts of Diplomacy. Isn't it worth to make a seperate video, covering this topic?

[sleepysnake]

Thank you, this is a very informative and useful video.