Has anyone actually ever made the Key work? I know it should be devastating to see an Italian army in Serbia, and an Austrian in Rumania, but the Italian backstab (A Tri H) happens too often, and that always seems to result in an R/T steamroller flattening Italy (and often Germany too).

Has anyone ever convoyed from St. Petersburg to Constantinople/Smyrna and vise versa?

If two units, each from a different player, are both bounced in the same turn, and have the option to retreat to the same territory, and both choose that territory, what becomes of the units? Are both disbanded?

Kestas, could you please draw this game? http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4321

After a long struggle, we have reached a stalemate, and we all agree that a draw is the right solution. I am Germany. Russia, Italy and Turkey should confirm shortly.

Thanks,

D.

I overcame a terrible start in http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4330 to get to 14 centres and an overwhelming advantage over the rest of the board. The game was originally a team game with Eng-Ger-Aus versus Fra-Ita versus Tur-Rus. Russia and I had 16 centres between us, far more than any other team, and it was just a case of finishing up.

I'd expected the game to finish a little faster than it did, but I had to leave for a music festival before it was complete. I arranged for my dad to cover all 4 of my games (I was already dead in the 5th), but he had a problem with the internet connection and could only submit orders on some days.

This led to me going CD in this game (Borf is Winning - http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4330), at which point Feckless Clod took over, submitted the final year's move and claimed the victory. I get nothing; he gets about 250-300 points for the win.

This current scoring system really needs to be fixed. There should be penalties for going CD in some games and not others, but you should not have a long-fought victory stolen out from under your nose if you can;t avoid a short absence.

Its a fast game so join up or you will lose your chance

I am playing Banded Struggle
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3749

and it's up to Spring 1925 already.
What's the longest game anyone has played and is there a record?

Bad Losers On Yahoo Chess
# Points-per-supply-center
# 12 hours/phase: Fast
# Bet: 6

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4756

im going to be away from this coming saturday to wednesday, and i am looking for a babysitter for my games. you cannot be in any of my games, and have to have some pretty good experience. email me at [email protected] and ill give you the password

Russia and I ask for a draw in game 4332. It's a team game, but Russia will post here as well.

I need a sitter starting Thursday afternoon going through to Tuesday morning next week.

If anyone of a good standard (I am playing in League games, so they would need to be people other than in League 1) would like to help me out, I will send some of my hareem over from Constantinople in grateful thanks (I tire of playing Turkey at the moment...)

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in running a game using a voice chat program, such as ventrilo, to play something akin to face-to-face diplomacy? I don't know if i will be able to devote a large enough chunk of time to playing this quite yet, but i'm just pitching the idea in case anyone else would like to give it a shot.

I am playing in a Global Press only game, and it seems to be a very rich, lively game. However, the Global Press tab gets filled very quickly, and if one person is away for, say, 15 or 20 hours they may miss(and have missed!) dialogue between the other players, often concerning their own country.(Looking at you, Russia, in the current game!)

Anyways, would it be terribly difficult to increase the amount of Press seen by the players in the Global Tab dialogue box? Maybe, and I'm just thinking out loud here, but would it be possible to organize it so that messages are deleted not by how many messages are there, but by how long the message has been there? Like, say, messages posted in the Global tab would only be deleted after a day or two? I have no idea if this is even possible, but I thought I'd ask, cause it does hurt the gameplay of Global Press Only games... Thanks in advance!

How many games of Diplomacy do you normally involve yourself in at one time? I've found that four is about enough for me, at least at the moment. One is no press, one is open press, one I joined late, and the last is a normal game. I suspect that four normal games might really start to pile up a bit... :-) What're your opinions?

Request for a draw for "Dude" - hopefully the other 2 left in the game will agree and post here and we can carry on with a new game.

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4599

Passworded to 166:)

That was an error, but it's WTA and 166 so if you want to play and have 166 then do join!

This "discussion" has cluttered up the wrong post for far too long. So I'm giving you guys a chance to duke it out here. I've added all the relevant posts on the matter, so keep discussing it WHERE IT BELONGS!

The number of hours allowed for players to discuss and enter orders each phase (between 1 and 72 hours).
Longer phase hours means more time to make careful decisions and negotiations, but makes a game take longer. Shorter phase hours results in a faster game, but requires that players in the game are available to check the game frequently.

My personal Pet Pieve.

Come on people, what does it take. 3 minutes to put in your moves when you only have a couple armies left. Finish the damn game out.

I have seen people playing no press games. When played here on phpdiplomacy, there is no way to enforce it, so it is not that common, but for many of the other judges, no press games seem to be a very big part of the games played.
Why are these games so popular? Why do people want to play Diplomacy without diplomacy?
I hope somebody here can explain me the fascination of it.
To me, it still sounds like guessing moves, rather than real Diplomacy.

please don't join if your awesome at diplomacy, this is for those that have just started playing recently!
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4737

When I look at a game I am in, when I look at the list of players, my own name doesn't show. So in a game where I am Italy, it looks like this:
() as Italy (): 3 supply centers

1 hour between moves? 50 point WTA?

Starts in an hour 600 pt.

I don't know if it is just me or if this place is changing, but since I returned from my monthly break, I've been bumping into what I would call 'stone age' players. I don't know if it is possible to describe it, but I'll list a few common characteristics:

1- Almost never talks or replies to messages.
2- When they do it is never longer than once sentence, and often (unintentionally) cryptic.. that is, it doesn't make, often due to bad english - I'll give examples
3- Often behave emotionally - attack you just to get at you or get revenge while letting another player that didn't 'mess with them' win
4- Which often leads to what we call 'kamikaze' situations..
5- Extremely short term thinking - the mentality goes like 'I'll attack you and get a single SC then have a stalemate forever while everyone keeps growing lololol'
6- Bad allies. We agree on moves and they just do whatever they think is better, which leads to doom of both parties of the alliance - I'm not talking about stabs, I'm talking about saying yes yes and doing your own stupid moves instead, then repeating the same.

Examples of messages in point 2:

KILL X KILL X KILL X KILL X
Y will win. we must ally
fleet in Z bad, die
DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
liar!!!
(after asking why he supported X into your territory) "just fixing weak pts"
and of course when I retaliate.. "You make me desperate to destroy you" "Good boys dont move to X"

I am already sick of playing games dominated by this kind of players, that is, 1 or 2 is fine, but when 5 of the 7 players on the board are like that.. Ugh. How can I escape?

i never noticed this "normal pace" written in the game summary in the my games section. does this mean we have abnormal(fast/slow) speeds? when was this introduced? how long was i asleep?

On the heads of the 'Stone Age' players thread, I figured maybe this would help. The rules of diplomacy are easy, its the strategy that makes this game difficult AND fun. But newbies frequently fail to think things through.

Wanted to make a game for semi-noobs, so I figured a 50 pot game would be something a newer player with experience wouldn't mind joining:
<A HREF="http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4724">http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4724</A>

So are there any rules, and how are they enforced, for multi-account players in a game?

In the game bunnies in the wind I am playing as Austria and I moved my unit into on the first turn. On the 2nd turn can I move that army and still keep Serbia or not?