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Whats the significance of the vp provs?

Restricting diplo to just in-game makes for much faster play since you can just concentrate on the game mechanics.

PMs means you wait for replies to your messages so you could end up waiting til the last possible moment before uploading your turns (or worse, forget entirely!)

I prefer the former unless I am playing a specifically AAR-heavy game (The creative writing bit takes ages....) but I`m ok either way.