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denis (864 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Live game
Napolean and Snowball
5 point buy in
1 hour phases
advertise people
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hellalt (113 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
a big apology
I believe i have insulted a lot of you people out there...
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hellalt (113 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
enemy at the gates
new game. 24hrs/phase. 10 D bet. PPSC. join in.
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=13211
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hellalt (113 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
the php league
hey ghostmaker
i was just checking the leagues at http://phpdiplomacy.tournaments.googlepages.com/thephpleague
is there any way to participate in any of them?
i'm really interested in this.
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redcrane (1045 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
new game: DON'T MAKE ME AUSTRIA
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=13214
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DingleberryJones (4469 D(B))
06 Sep 09 UTC
Spies are Everywhere Game Variant - Who's in?
Post your interest here
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Timmi88 (190 D)
05 Sep 09 UTC
Finland
Is this the most unimportant territory/province on the board?
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Acosmist (0 DX)
06 Sep 09 UTC
"I think that it's a big mistake to start to rank areas on the map according to how useful they are, the only consequence is limiting one own's imagination. I've used the Irish Sea to invade England succesfully, North Africa has been essential in one of my games as a means to control the Mid-Atlantic, and Syria is of course not useless. How many times have a convoy from Naples to Syria started an invasion of Turkey? In my opinion, whether a province on the map is useful or not depends on the player and the situation."

Relativist garbage. Rational thought does not progress when distinctions are banished; distinctions and abstraction ARE rational thought.
denis (864 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
A way to rate it is how many times is a territory left neutral or controlled by a player that is eliminated
Timmi88 (190 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
The Irish Sea is very important. It have a fleet in the MAO alot of options to move against England. Without it, making any progress in the Atlantic would be freaking hard, especially if you are coming from the Med.
Acosmist (0 DX)
06 Sep 09 UTC
It's true that the Irish Sea is useful a lot of the time. Sneaking into Liverpool wouldn't be the same without it!
JECE (1322 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
You can sneak into Liverpool from NAO . . .
JECE (1322 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
No, but it is true that every corner of the board is useful and should be exploited.
JECE (1322 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
As Vaftrudner said.
Vaftrudner (2533 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Acosmist: You're talking about pure reason here, but Diplomacy isn't math. You would be right if this was chess or go, but my main point is that Diplomacy isn't primarily a tactical game, it's an interaction between seven more or less rational actors. Another form of reason is the one that assesses any given situation without bias, that focuses on personal interaction. While it's always good to apply some abstract thought on the board, you'd reach a very dead end when some other quite irrational player stomps on all your precious inferences.
Baron Samedi (319 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Anyone else thinking of Star Trek? :)
Thucydides (864 D(B))
06 Sep 09 UTC
Dude armies in North Africa are badass what are you talking about.
Acosmist (0 DX)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Diplomacy isn't primarily a tactical game, but it HAS TACTICS. By your logic, Munich isn't a whit more important than Wales; data suggest you are utterly wrong.

I never said that Diplomacy was chess, I just pointed out that it's not afternoon tea, and there are aspects of the board that have importance for the progress of the game. To take an example, even the best player can't sweet-talk you into convoying from Bohemia to Moscow.
Baron Samedi (319 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
To add to Acosmists statement;
There are situations where Wales will be more valuable and more rabidly fought and diplomed over.
But I believe that there more situations where Munich will be.
Dharmaton (2398 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
ADRIATIC! ...no,... GBO?
An army in N. Afr. can be very useful in closing the door to (or from) the Med.
Timmi88 (190 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
@ Crazy Ang

how? what situation would make that a good position to be in? i'm new and curious. :)
denis (864 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Well if you can convoy via mao so that can be crucial versus tunis
Timmi88 (190 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Portugal.... horrible...
Parallelopiped (691 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Portugal is absolutely key to the domination of MAO (if you have a fleet in it, that is. A(Por) is pretty rubbish but at least it's an sc)
Acosmist (0 DX)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Portugal is a supply center and part of at least one stalemate line :/
Timmi88 (190 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
I failed pretty hard didn't I?
JECE (1322 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Wait, convoying from Bohemia to Moscow? Awesome, I would do it, no matter the consequences!


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spyman (424 D(G))
07 Sep 09 UTC
What is metagaming?
Exactly what is it? Is it always unacceptable? Are some forms acceptable? Or just unavoidable? Is it possible to make rules to stop the most pernicious forms of metagaming?
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Perry6006 (5409 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Once more over the top! - New WTA 30Bet Game!
http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=13209
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tailboarder (100 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Game message counter
I like to look at the message counter when choosing opponents. I prefer playing the chattier players. I was over 800 the las time I checked and now I am back to 0. Did I break my counter???
No I know better, but will that be back up?
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denis (864 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
Cheap and moderate phase length WTA
Abba tribute
5 D
48hour phases
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
05 Sep 09 UTC
Obiwanobiwan's NFL Preseason Picks
It's that time of year again- when America straps on the helmets, teams start towards the Superbowl, and the rest of the world asks:
1. Why are Americans so crude?
2. They call THAT violence? Should see a England-Germany match! ;)
My Picks inside...
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Vaftrudner (2533 D)
07 Sep 09 UTC
What do I do if someone sends a letter in a gunboat?
What do you recommend? Do the mods get involved in variant games?
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
04 Sep 09 UTC
Why do you value the message of Jesus?
If you don't then there is no need to explain, though feel free to state that you do not.
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jman777 (407 D)
30 Aug 09 UTC
Is there a God?
I don't really know, what do you all think?
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jarrah (185 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
New game - 55 pts WTA, 24 hours
Hi everyone, I'd love to start a game with the above specs... But as I don't have enough points due to the silly rules, if anyone would like to start it, I promise to be the first to join!! Cheers.
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Steve1519 (100 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Walnut Creek
I'll join if I get the password! (I'm relatively new, and I don't know any other way of getting the password - apologies if I'm breaching a protocol; if there's another way of getting passwords, please let me know.)
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kestasjk (99 DMod(P))
04 Sep 09 UTC
Small code update
I've been getting 0.9x ready for release now that the bug count is starting to decrease, with comments and optimizations, see inside for details and to post bugs.
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Troodonte (3379 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Live game?
I'll be back in about 2/3 hours and I'm up for a live game.
Please post your interest here.
2300 - 2330 GMT
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jarrah (185 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
FIRST PERSON TO POST WINS!!!!!
The title is self explanatory.
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MadMarx (36299 D(G))
06 Sep 09 UTC
Problem with blackberries?
Overnight I now can't get any new messages on my cell phone... I can enter orders, but hope people in my games don't think I'm ignoring them...
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jeesh (1217 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
Quick Question about leavers
Does the computer automatically help a leaver's armies and fleets retreat? i.e. if I take a leaver's territory which has an army in it, will it automatically retreat to the nearest territory?
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Tuhin (100 D)
05 Sep 09 UTC
Question about gunboat game rule?
What one should do if in a gunboat game, another player sends msg and proposes non agression pact? There was no attacking before the proposal.
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Mack Eye (119 D)
05 Sep 09 UTC
Mod needed!
2 players in one of my games (giapeep, mathesond) can't log in to the site - they get an 'invalid username' error. They've deleted their cookies, and still no luck. Can one of the mods take a look at this?
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denis (864 D)
06 Sep 09 UTC
36 people are logged on so can anyone say
Live game!!!!!!!!24hour phasesso it can be continued latter
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denis (864 D)
26 Aug 09 UTC
Views on Goerge Orwell Great Politicain and Writer, or Pessimistic Pundant
Well it is interesting his great peice Animal farm was written when admiration for Stalin and USSR was at its height in Britain and US. We can all see today that the Totalitarian nightmare that was predicted never came about does this mean that all that pessimism was rubish and that that glim future was not possible?
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A. Smith (100 D)
03 Sep 09 UTC
Need help with a F2F ruling to satisfy players
Under the fold.
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rlumley (0 DX)
04 Sep 09 UTC
Live game anytime this weekend?
I'm sick. I have nothing to do. Who wants to play some diplomacy?
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JECE (1322 D)
31 Aug 09 UTC
A game says it paused on my Notices but did not pause
gameID=12152, Acorrding to my Notices:
Plan of peace
Game has been paused. Thu 09 PM
However, the game seems not to have been paused, maybe because of the reset phase times, and Italy has already gone into civil disorder. How is this sort of thing fixed?
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IKE (3845 D)
05 Sep 09 UTC
new gunboat
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=13189
2 replies
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