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In gunboat Diplomacy no one knows who the other players are. All
communication with the other players must be done via the adjudicator
with broadcast/press messages.
To sign onto a gunboat game, the gunboat keyword must be specified
as part of the variant identification:
signon ?name password gunboat
Gunboat is not really a variant in itself, any variant game can be
of the gunboat type. For example:
signon ?name password youngstown gunboat
would be the method to sign on to a Youngstown variant game that was
also a gunboat game. The keywords for the variant and variant options
can be specified in any order.
It is possible to change a non-gunboat game to a gunboat game with the
set variant gunboat
command, but this needs to be done before anyone has signed onto the
game. It is better to specify the gunboat keyword on the initial signon
that creates the game.