Why in the thumbnail of the map are there two islands which stay neutral orange, no matter what territories are occupied? In the full view of the map they are fine though. Is there a reason for this or not?

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i started a new public game, "cloak and dagger".

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I'm in a game called Norloch with Gissett. I don't think he's submitted moves for several turns - it says he hasn't logged on for 5 days. Can anything be done? Hope you're ok Gissett.

Autumn 1906, Diplomacy: Your army at Galicia prevented the army at Rumania from giving a support move against your army at Galicia.

My question is this: why doesn't phpDiplomacy use a polished adjucator as a backend? You could use Njudge, Diplojuge, jDip, or something else. phpDiplomacy has a great frontend, but I wouldn't play another game until the backend is replaced. I don't write fixed, because it seems to be hopeless.

If you for some reason really want a custom adjucator as backend there's no end of risk of bugs. To reduce them somewhat you could take a look at the DATC (http://web.inter.nl.net/users/L.B.Kruijswijk/) and strive to make your adjucator DATC compliant.

In the case that you can neither fix nor replace the adjucator in the foreseeable future, it would be great if you could at least alert new players to the glaring bugs. I've read the FAQ before starting a game here and it says that the only difference from the rules is that you can not make redundant convoys. I thought I can live with that. But it should also have mentioned that you can not support convoys, different coasts are practically not handled at all, you can't see the actions of other players, there's no shared victory and that I should expect all kinds of different bugs.

Note that other than the adjucator I think phpDiplomacy is really cool! :)

can I support hold a unit that is support holding another, I think the rules said i can but I heard somewhere i cant in php

If alliance victories will be allowed, how about they count as NEGATIVE victories (i.e., -1) for the parties involved - this might encouage the back-stabbing we need.
Permanent alliances do seem unfair to the other players - it's a bit like the same person signing on with different identities - but you often need to ally to make headway. So, ways that permanent alliances can be made unattractive would be a good thing

Diplomacy is a board game, like any other, surely the game concept is copyrighted, is this website legal, or one day will its owners be forced to close it down by whoever owns the diplomacy copyright?

I know copyrights do expire; I just want to check that this issue has been thought about.

I've been unable to connect to the site for short (under 5 minutes) periods a few times today. Has anyone else noticed this?

Please play Axis & Allied sides, and Turkey undetermined.

What is the proper way to resolve the following :

Russian Army Bohemia Attacks Vienna
Russian Army Trieste Supports Bohemia attack on Vienna
Italian Army Veniza Supports Trieste

Austrian Army Apulia Attacks Trieste
Austrian Fleet Adriatic Sea Convoys Army from Apulia to Trieste
Austrian Army Vienna Supports Apulia Attack on Trieste

Thanks!

i have two questions about retreats of units

1) if i don't make an order during retreat phase, will the unit be destroyed?
2) if a country is in civil disorder and a unit is forced to retreat, what happens?

uhhh what is the best way for a person to get experience...
is playing other noobs good? email or reply...

or join my game... called 'jigga huff'

Right, this is just a quick question, so please dont make it into a conversation. Since the major errors in convoys will take a long time to correct, I'm just offering a quick fix for supporting convoys. Just to check then:
To disrupt a convoy you have to force the unit to move out of its terriatory. Is this correct?

First of all: I do not consider myself an experienced diplomacy player, but I do have some remarks about things that affect the gameplay. I also don't want to offend the people behind this project, I just want to mention these things so that phpdiplomacy can only become better it the future... And I just wanted to know what other people thought about this.

-I know this is being debated in another post, but the sheer fact that there isn't a possibility of shared victory makes the whole idea about diplomacy a bit useless. If you know that you can only win on your own, you can't trust any of the other players; you know for sure you will get stabbed. I noticed in my games that the amount of diplomacy fades out towards a gunboat diplomacy level. I don't really care about the technical details (although I would advise to just follow the rules) as in the other topic, I just feel like it takes the strategic part out of the game...

-Is there a way to find out what the other players moves were? I just see the arrows on the map, but not the full orders. This is also pretty essential because it gives you insight if the other players have honoured their promises. I now have the feeling that I just have to guess what happened.

Any thoughts?

It's not a huge bug but I've had this problem a couple of times when I was the last in the game to finalise my moves. When entering them and finalising, I noticed my moves on the next turn were already finalised on hold for the next turn. This basically means that if you don't notice this immediately, you won't get a warning on the top of your page that a new turn has started in your game (unless you get a msg from someone)

In most of the cases I noticed this in time, but I missed it twice and so I didn't get a warning that a new turn started and thus all of my units stood on hold , making me miss the turn.

I don't have this problem if I'm the last one to finalise in Autumn. Then I get a problem msg (can't remember the exact sentence). I suppose this is because of building/disbanding units phase.

Wouldnt that ce cool if there were variants of armies kind of like rish where theres an infantry then a calvalry then an cannon type thing. What im getting at is i thinkit would be cool if diplomacy had infantry, armored divisions and various types of ships to spice the game up.

A few questions:

1. How do I message my friends who are also on this network?
2. I accidentally joined a game, can I cancel or back out somehow?
3. Are win/loss records kept?

What's the worst position anyone reading this has come back from to win a game? 2 units? 1 unit? All home supply centres occupied?

I've got a mental block, as soon as I'm down to 2 I believe I cannot win. So I need some inspiration!

i cant retreat from st Petersburg im in the was in the south coast and i wont give me any options to retreat!!!

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=392

Any change this might be implemented?

When a game starts with fewer than 7 players, are the countries in civil disorder random or are they set? (i'm asking about this site, i know the official rules state specific countries should be in disorder)

I wanted to ask if there will be (when phpDiplomacy is finished) any implementation of a few of the many variants of the game?

Especially i'm thinking about the "Fleet at Rome"-Variant. For everybody who doesn't know what that is: Played on the normal gameboard with normal rules and with only one difference: Italy starts with a fleet in rome instead of an army. (althoug a little change that really changes for Italy a lot)

I tried to convoy an army from Norway via the North Sea into Belgium. I had a unit at Ruhr support the move to Belgium. The support didn't work...I told it to support a convoy from North Sea into Belgium, because there wasn't an option to support the move from Norway.
Any thoughts?

08:24 AM Autumn 1904, Diplomacy: Your army at Ruhr's move support wasn't accepted by the unit which support was being given to.
08:24 AM Autumn 1904, Diplomacy: Your army at Norway is being convoyed to Belgium.
08:24 AM Autumn 1904, Diplomacy: Your fleet at North Sea is convoying the army at Norway through to Belgium.
08:24 AM Autumn 1904, Diplomacy: Your army at Norway attempted to move into Belgium but there was a stalemate.

Thanks.

well all have to be on at once and willing to stick with it. If we get 7 people who are interested around 8 pm o'clock EST or 1 AM standard time Id make the game with a password for it

http://phpdiplomacy.net/map.php?gid=422

I'm turkey, and I'm not allowed to build in Greece. ...is this a glitch or a rule? I can't build fleets nor armies.

After finishing the install of phpDiplomacy, I receive the following error when testing my configuration:

'Couldn't create log file directory'

Which directory is phpDipolomacy looking to create or file?

have a look at the screenshot; seems that the russian army tried to move to sweden; as far as I remember from the official rules, my fleet in denmark should have moved to gulf of bothnia - so this is a bug isn't it?

http://666kb.com/i/amd94y6xed84qxnuq.png

05:22 PM Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Denmark attempted to move into Sweden but there was a stalemate.
05:22 PM Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Baltic Sea attempted to attack the fleet at Gulf of Bothnia, but failed.

05:22 PM Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your army at Norway attempted to attack the army at St. Petersburg, but failed.

There seem to be a lot of passworded games...is theer a reason why? and is there any way I could join one of them (that is, will anyone let me play in one of their passworded games?)

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i donno if these two are really good friends or what but KLKC & JuniorC are in a game im playing and they just seem to close if you know what I mean!(no thats not a sexual reference) I looked at there profiles and they joined at the same time and are playing in all! the same games. as well they seem to be allied in all of them too.

if they(if infact its no just on person) read this im probobly done in our game but o well! the game is http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=392