I'd like to start a game in the next week or so for those in the Asia Pacific timezones - can you let me know who would be interested. I think it should make for a better game, as more communication should be possible during the day and we might be able to confirm orders earlier etc. Let me know who might be interested....

I always love the first two years of Dip. Such an intoxicating mix of anxiety and paranoia with a hint of confusion. The first moves are like riding a roller coaster. You are happy and scared all at the same time. It's just a great time to be alive.

Just a random thought I had while communicating with another player. Thought it was nice and I should share.

Unit A gives support unit B to move to C
Unit C attacks A

Does C cut support? I think no.....

Dear admin,

in the game Magical Mystery Tour gryncat and I have decided on a draw. We are in the Autumn phase and at the end will have 17 units each. If the points could be split up that would be awesome.

lcls and slcl...every game they are in together, and yea..its kinda obvious with the names dude..comeon.

I have been playing a game for almost three weeks now and over the course of the game three players have been beaten down to one or two units and then mostly ignored. Each one of them stoped submitting moves, probably out of spite to slow us down. However, a new profile was made earlier today and for for no reason, joined as one of these hopeless nations in civil disorder. This was the first and only game he joined, despite there being other new games that he could have joined. Due to all this, I think that the only possibility is that another player in my game has created this acount to give himself an edge. I dont know if anyone can remove him from the game, but I would appricate it of you could.

A suggestion to the game masters or what ever you call them, I think it would be good if it did not have any cost to join a game when you replace a country in civil disorder. It would cause more people to want to join the game, since they have nothing to lose. Second, since more people would join the replacement games, the balance would not be upset as much, as civil disorder countries always give one country a big advantage. Third, people replacing a country can still win the pot, giving further incentives to join.

I was just looking over my finished games and noticed there were a disproportionately large number of games won by Turkey. Now I realize I've only finished 17 games and haven't played any high roller games so my experiences may not be representative, so I thought I'd ask how other people's experiences worked out.

Kestas, would it be possible to add some basic stats like this? I'd figure this to be a pretty low priority, so maybe I'll try to dip my head in the php pool and see if I can hack something together for this...

Here's what I found:

Total games: 17
Turkey wins: 7
Italy wins: 2
England wins: 2
Germany wins: 2
France wins: 1
Austria wins: 1
Russia wins: 1
Draw (3-way): 1

(It may or may not be interesting to note that the draw included Turkey.)

Contrary to popular belief, the top 100 only lists 100 names. The problem is that there is apparently a hidden entry in between #62 and #64. If you look closely, you'll find Horizon correctly labeled as #62, but immediately afterwardThe Mahatma is incorrectly labeled as #64. This is not due to a tied score, although the effect looks similar to what happens when two players have identical scores.

The only reason I can think of for such a discrepancy is that there might be a hidden test account that has enough points on it to fall between Horizon and The Mahatma; of course, I didn't bother checking the code, so I very well may be completely wrong.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2667
Check my profile for the password.

Why does he still have points from his multiaccounting?

Dear game administrators. There is a game PFan, game ID is 2314, where myself (France) and Russia have talked and decided to call it a draw. We are both currently at 15 units and would like to split the win. Italy is still in the game but will is most likely to be fought over for the win and so can be placed in third for the ranking.

The others should be posting their reply too consent soon. Thank you for splitting up the point.

05:30 PM Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your army at Norway successfully supported the army at Moscow move to St. Petersburg.
05:30 PM Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your army at Moscow engaged the army at St. Petersburg head on; both units were equally matched so there was a stand off.
How can this be?
gameid=2477

quick question-

there are turkish armies in st.p and sweden, and i have a fleet in norway. i moved norway - sweden, and he moved st.p - norway and sweden s st.p - norway. i could've swore that if you attacked a unit that was giving support, the support was cut. any help at all?

p.s. i got this message in the gamemaster...

"Spring 1912, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Norway couldn't prevent army at Sweden from giving a support move, because the support was being given to attack your fleet at Norway, and you had no support." (this makes no sense what so ever)

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2395&msgmembershipid=0

I think it would be helpful if we all had a list of bugs/ features not implemented in the adjudicator. e.g. i have heard something about being unable to retreat from bulgaria

Join up at http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2657

As soon as the other players confirm please draw the Game Battl of Kamino (http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2380)
I am Turkey and confirm the draw

I believe I brought this up some few months ago, but I'm not quite so sure, and it hasn't been fixed yet, so I'll bring it up again.

I can't really explan it in words (Don't have the right vocabulary to say it I guess) so here's a screenshot:
http://img.waffleimages.com/ac313e778561812f74bd3b3ee737b73a0c01f2c1/operacompatibility.JPG

Please get this fixed soon, it's annoying to open up Firefox just so I can get through a turn of phpDiplomacy.

For Wombat 3 (password: wombie).

A cheapie game cos we're all mean and in penury.

Click my name and you'll find it listed.

No matter what territories you control in the vicinity, Crete and Sardinia remain orange, and it's not like every outlying island stays neutral. Look at Iceland. If anyone was going to make a case for a perpetually neutral country, it would be that, but it follows the allegiance of Clyde. So what's up? Could that be changed, for the sake of aesthetics?

I've started game Dip1, please join if you can afford it for the chance to win some serious points!

Dear Kestas
could you please set a draw for the game HIMYM (gid 2260) as soon as the other player involved in it will confirm the request.

New game for top 100 players.
The pot is 125, join it!

Could you please give a three way tie for East as soon as the other players confirm this is what they want.
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2378

Easy 10 Point Game. Need 2 More people. Thanks!

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2551

this is not decent way to earn points, playing with anlari's multis... i think...

Still a bit of a newbie and coming to terms with some of the subtleties of some of the manouvres so could you confirm what happens in the following situations (all help appreciated):

(1) Can an army bounce someone out of a territory even if it's attacked itself?

Burgundy MOVE Marseille
Munich MOVE Burgundy
Piedmont MOVE Marseille

By my calculation Burgundy army cannot bounce an army out of Marseille as it's too busy defending itself from attack from Munich - however am sure this ended up as a stalemate during a recent turn and nobody could move. This seems a little odd in that the Burgundy army can prevent 2 other units from moving at the same time.

(2) Can you 'support hold' a unit that is ordered to move? (in case the move is not effective)

French orders:
Paris support hold Burgundy
Burgundy move Munich

German orders:
Munich move Burgundy
Ruhr support move Burgundy from Munich

So does Burgundy hold or is the army dislodged?

I'm sure this has been answered a thousand times before but can someone explain a part of the points allocation to me please.

I've just come back after being away and this is a new feature. I've entered a few games so obviously my points went down. . .but after making a few moves they seem to have gone up again. Can you gain points during the game as well as at the end of it?

Thanks.

New game, guys. It's called Roads to Moscow (great song, by the way), and the ante's 30.

Also, I want to apologize to anyone who was in the game with me that I abandoned (can't remember the name, sorry). I had a lot of crap going on and I guess I straight up forgot to check... Anyway, good to be back playing my favorite game!

Happy new years, everyone.

I've let this go too far, and I have to say something... In the game "sweetness" (http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2372), Russia is "faceplantmoses" and Turkey is "ethonen627." These two are actually brothers in real life. This is what Turkey (ethonen627) said to me:

10 Dec 07 Once I can take Greece, I can help you take Trieste. (him)
10 Dec 07 ok, i heard you were going against the czar with austria. good luck... (me)
10 Dec 07 The Czar is my brother. So Austria lies. If your fleet in the Ionian could support my fleet at Smyrna into the Aegean, I could possibly get back into the game. I keep messing up cause it's my first game. (him)

and then this is what the czar (faceplantmoses) said to me to confirm:

Sat 15 Dec my alliance with him is pretty strong, i am not going to lie... but if you can promise me that if i help you against him that there will be something in it for me, i might be persuaded to join you. also, what do you plan to do in the land of the kaiser??? (me)
Sat 15 Dec btw, is the sultan really your brother? (me)
Sun 16 Dec yeah, that's true (him)

if you take a look at the map, turkey has control of sevestapol, and russia is doing nothing about it. also, austria is wide open for turkey to take, and yet he also does nothing... this is so low and ridiculous to me that i have to say something. kestas, can you do something about this at all, please? like possibly a ban?