Based on the title, I feel like I should mention that killing them isn't the proper solution.

Email the mods. If there is no play left on the board, they will talk to the players and see if the game needs to be drawn.

Would have done so, except it was a 5min live game.

I'm a fan of a lot of sleazy moves to win, but simply waiting at a stalemate for someone to CD is very bad play, IMHO, because the only counter is for everyone else on the board to be as big of a loser as the person holding up the game.

To be fair, it was only a couple of moves, but it was a stalemate, and we did tell him it was. I think I'm gonna write a script that keeps repeating orders, in order to outlast the other guy.

Or better yet, add that to the site's functionality, so this never happens again.

A couple moves is a bit hard to tell if a stalemate has been reached. I used to wait at least 2 years to see of anything changed.

Come on, it was a textbook stalemate, Germany/Austria border, StP/Moscow, Gibraltar, etc. If anything, there was a small chance of the dominant power losing the Med lines.

I didn't look at the game. I just said in the past I used to wait 2 years to see what would happen before I would intervene.

Probably a suggestion for the developer forum rather than here, but I would suggest adding an optional condition, that force-draws the game if 3 moves have passed in which there were no retreats and no territories changed colour.

Jamiet -

I admit this is a small percentage of potential situations, but what about a semi-stalemate that boils down to a guessing game. Sometimes the defender can guess right, but will eventually guess wrong and not be able to defend their territory. It might take more than 3 moves (heck, it could take 10 or more theoretically if they guess right for awhile) and the game would force-draw when in reality, it's not over. Or a situation where the aggressor is bringing up the last unit needed to break the line but it takes more than 3 moves for example.

I feel like an option of "keep repeating these moves until I say so" will cover many important cases where the stalemate is obvious. I'll head over to the dev forum, see if a similar feature is planned. Maybe take a stab at it myself when I find the time.

Players being stubborn and others getting fed up is part of the game I think... In this case specifically it might be unfair, but otherwise being able to simply let the computer repeat your moves isn't really something you want... As I understand, in FtF and here, a big part of the game is influencing the others to get to the solo. Not wanting to draw is part of that strategy IMO.

Again, maybe in this specific case the guy was being a dick, but implementing this function would really make drawing a lot more common I think (and it already is very common!). If players don't have the 2 minutes patience of putting their order in for a few units, why play at all? If the goal of the game is to draw after one or two powers have been taken out, then it is sad... Maybe this reaction is because players are point driven instead of playing each game individually...

How would we ever get games like this one gameID=93086 with an easy stalemate repeater?

What a silly question. Unite the rest in opposition to his foolishness. Give him a single warning: draw now or die. If he refuses, don't give him a chance to change his mind - he must be punished.

That may be possible if these are first turn CDs, but when someone is already at 10+ SCs, and another 10+ SC power CDs, there isn't much the others can do. It turns into a race of collecting the unguarded centers, but the stronger player has a much bigger advantage.

Alternatively, imagine a stalemate where one is at say 16, and 3 players of 6 SC have an alliance stopping him. Normally, he'd draw, but he can just keep trying until one of the others gives up. Only really dangerous in live games, but is a major dick move, and very hard to counter.