If a country has a regime with which you have an ethical difficulty, is it better not to travel to that country or to go and engage with local people?

Basically, what the subject says.

Lately, I have been getting really ticked when someone takes over a CD country that has like one or two SCs late game. its so annoying because at that point the player is either a multi-accounter or joining just to screw over one of the other players because they can't really hope to win or even make a significant showing. Is there anything that can be done about that?

Well, I am not pointing at anyone here, nor any specific game, but I would like to see some discussion on this:

Is it ok for a nation to give away some of his own SCs to an ally?
The situation I am in is as followed:
- France is on the verge of winning
- France promised England to get him 10+ SCs by the end of game
- England has no ability to get any more SCs from his opponent (i.e. Me, Turkey) unless he takes from France
- Instead of winning, France is taking stuff off his opponent, and giving off stuff from his back
- By doing so, France is delaying what is supposed to be a victory
- Is this similar to positioning yourself for 24 SCs to win in a PPSC game?

Perhaps this is right, perhaps this is wrong, but I want to know everyone's opinion on this. No strong comments...purely a discussion

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It's called luck of the opponent.

That's right, folks. Continental Breakfast is back in its first sequel. Cost to join is 20, plus you have to bring a breakfast food appropriate to the country you get assigned. PPSC.

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In "Revolution is no excuse for CD", I could swear I had entered orders for England (specifically, I'd wanted to snatch Spain from France, among other things) in Autumn whatever-year-we're-currently-on Diplomacy. It's now Autumn Retreats and my orders didn't get processed. Luckily I don't need to enter any retreats.

Anyone know why this might have occurred? (It is possible, though highly unlikely, that I just never finalized and took no notice of the alert on the top of my screen telling me to act...)

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I would love to hear opinions of the phpdip community on the programme...what are your thoughts?

i may have run up against a rule i wasn't familiar with, or some derivative of the old self-dislodgement rule. what would be the result if there is a unit in a territory ordered to attack another, and you know the attack fails. in addition, a hostile country orders a supported unit to this territory, but you also order another supported unit into this territory?

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Since I have some time on the side, I am just for the hell of it writing this down
1. It is said that in order to successfully play this game, one has to make two lies at least.
2. In most ethical situations lying is a no-no. Especially if the lying leads to pure self-benefit (i.e. winning the game, making the other lose it)
3. The other option is meta-gaming (i.e. making a deal with another player over several games to share victories. Against phpdiplomacy rules)
4. Hence, it is said to be impossible to be ethical and still win diplomacy.

My reply below will be my thoughts on this.

Shouldn't a failed convoy cut support the sameway a normal move would? in this case, i'm france, and was convoying to london. Still, London was able to suppurt edi to the north sea and boot germany out. is this a mistake, or do convoys not cut support?

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4050&msgCountry=Germany

I believe that someone suggested banning (RTC) Lt. Crackers (See 'Hall of Fame') a while ago - why isn't he removed?

I know this subject has been talked about ad nauseum, but I'm suprised at the number of veteran players who, when they know a game is ending, bring their point totals down to zero so they can get a free 100 points. I understand why new members do this, but I'm surprised that veterans do as well.

I suppose expecting diplomacy players to be 'ethical' is an oxymoron.

In the game: "Gravemakers&Gunslingers", I took over for Russia which was in CD. However, I can't open the game, for some reason... It says there is an error, dealing with "orders which have been completed, but should not be". That's what it says, at least... I don't have any orders to fill right now, so no big rush on getting this fixed, or anything.

Sorry, I can't provide the link to the game, seeing as how I can't open the game...

Currently in final hours, we are in a retreat phase. England is the only country that has a unit that was dislodged, and that unit cannot retreat. I was wondering if something could added to the to-do list to prevent the delay of waiting until the player submits that he is doing the only available option.

hey all, i know that i kind of took off suddenly from the site about a month ago, so i just wanted to let everyone know where i went. i got grounded from all communication indefinitely (hey, im only 14), so i could not go on the computer. I am sorry about all of the games that i left in CD, but i had no choice, and im sure that the people that took them over didnt mind! i am posting this now from school, the only time i can get on the computer. do not fret, though; i have a feeling that sometime within the next month or two i will be acquitted for my offense, and i will be back to kicking arse in no time. adu for now.

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Never done it before, but a bunch of gents from a Browser Based game wished to play a private foray. But I haven't a hot clue where to find it. Any pointers?

All 3 parties have agreed to the draw. The game link is below:

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3930

They will publicly agree as a reply to this message I am sure.

Sorry if this has been asked a million times, but what does the dot next to a country's name mean?

He is constantly more interested in personally and illogically debasing other players, calling them cheats if they play 2 or more games with the same person(even if they have played more than 20 in total- meaning less than 10% of games played).
He is an OLD man who needs to get a life and stop playing or should it be, trolling game sites?
He is an arrogant lonely desparate old man who even though has been proven false in his accusations, continues to make them...
Perhaps he should be banned?

Here is the link...

hthttp://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3919&msgCountry=Global

I am playing as Italy and accept the draw . France and Russia should be posting soon with their acquiescence.

Thank you.

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