I'm against any blanket ban on swearing but could we perhaps try to avoid it in the first post of a new topic? Bear in mind that anyone coming to this site for the first time will see the forum page and I'm not sure it sends out the right message.

Ok I've seen a few game variants like the "Winner Take All" and league matches. Are all these special request games that need to go through Kestas? I don't see any options for variants, including less then 7 players.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3901

England agrees to the draw. Germany, France and Turkey to post shortly.

mapleleafrulz has taken over a cd in one of my games and has posted a global message in a pathetic attempt to paint me as a multi. This is totally malicious; well beyond the childish moniker previously used by this individual.
As this idiot, and mapleleafisiacnt, are likely the same idiot and logging on from a country other than Canada, just ban him/her and every other user from the IP.
The really sad thing about all of this is that people with whom I have played in many games are actually questioning my integrity.
As far as my original thread goes, the inmates have taken over the asylum.
They are proud of it.
Pathetic.
How about a response?

Its another episode of the Trout wars! May the Trout be with you!

What we need is a game variant to solve the question that has been gnawing at us:
Who is better, Sicarius or Mapleleaf?

Only 2 rules:
1. Sicarius and Mapleleaf are at war no-matter-what
2. All other players must play in an un-biased manner

Hopefully they will both accept the challenge

That is the question.
And Sicarius stay the FUCK off this thread

The game "Diplo2009" just advanced, and now it is the retreat phase of Autumn 1906. None of my units were displaced, but the game tab still shows up at the top of my screen with a red X next to it, and the game page itself shows a red X next to my name. Where orders would be submitted, it says, "You have no orders to submit in this phase."

Does this mean the game will wait 24 hours before it advances again just because I can't submit (and finalize) any orders that would change this red X to a green check mark?

Maybe I'm just a nit-picker here, but "Skagerrak" doesn't have a c in its spelling. Please adjust.

The 6 players have agreed to a draw so that we can restart with our 7th member. Please post to confirm.

I am raising a true question, no accusation, no polemics.
I am playing a game where one player (Qing Shi Hwang) has jumped from 100 points to 1341 points overnight (currently he has invested all his pot in a joinable game).
The interesting issue comes if you take a look at his profile: only three survivals, the biggest of which is with 1 SC in 352 pot game, the other two survivals being in games with pots less or equal to 70 points.
Where do the 1341 points come from?

anyone interested in playing a team game?

I'm thinking france and italy vs austria and germany, vs russia and turkey, with england as rogue
but im open to suggestions

Do you all love me?

I can't sleep, so I can find 6 other people up for a quick game now?

In my game, run to the hills.

Player 1: Qin Shi Huang who came in and played Turkey who was in CD (left with 1 SC in Munich)
Player 2: venek who played Russia

Reason my suspicion were raised
1. QSH came in to play turkey (left with 1 SC not in home territory)
2. Came in entered orders, 6 min later, venek entered his orders
3. Russia had 1 unit in Berlin, Turkey had 1 unit in Munich. Somehow Berlin managed to move into Munich
4. Looking at QSH record, he has played 79 games of which he has survived 3 and won none. He however has 210 points. This suggests he takes part solely in CD games for the benefit of a group of people to use as a dummy account.

Venek or QSH, could you kindly answer the allegations?

Kestasjk, could you please look into this? I understand you're not in development anymore, are we working on the code to build moderators?

I'm new and am curious about the Civil disorder rules. When does it kick in, and what is the effect?

Here is the link: http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3953

It was meant to be a draw between Italy & Turkey, but Turkey (me) won when Norway wasn't dislodged even though it was attacked 2-1 and was trying to move out.
Thanks!

I'm planning to move on from phpDip for a couple of reasons (mostly, in short, realizing my code had been plagiarized made me realize phpDip has achieved what I wanted it to)

Please read this notice: http://phpdiplomacy.net/roadmap.php

Thanks,
Kestas

Could somebody kindly tell me how Kiel's support of Berlin to Munich was cut. For the record, I am 100% positive I entered the move correctly.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4074

I'm a relatively new Diplomacy player, and I've opened a new game. I'm excited to play here at phpDiplomacy.

Can we retry the start on League B? We're missing a player.

Hey everyone, i just made a very low pot Winner-takes-all game for newer players who want to experience the higher intensity game. Its called Rider pt. 2 after the g-unit song lol but yah just come and join its only 7 points to join.

So a bit more notice this time... If anyone is around Sunday for a quick turnover game, I would be keen to set one up from around 10:30 - 11:00 BST(British Summer Time). If you are interested then please post a message and then we can all re-confirm we are logged on on Sunday morning and go for it.

Flamers... your sentiments on this are already noted and do not need repeating here thanks :)

"...a sequence of moves contrived to convince an opponent that certain of his vital pieces are at risk. He reacts by preparing for an offensive which never materialises; instead, his adversary strikes elsewhere, as [the adversary] had first intended." (Lawrence James, Raj)

Sound familiar? The great thing is that I can now say it all in one word.

This book was recommended here, and now I have a question about something I've read in it that I don't understand.

get ready to be punished

come and get yer ass kicked

There's a guy called mapleleafrulz (ID 6197)...
after the mapleleafisacnt, there seems to be another of the mapleleaf series!

I am an advocate and I thought it would be nice to hold a game exclusively for lawyers. Anyone interested?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Diplomacy

I thought it would be a good idea to move this into a separate thread. We should start paying more attention to the wikipedia article to make sure that it reflects us correctly.

The current article about phpdiplomacy on Wikipedia is not too bad, however it could be better and more comprehensive to make sure that the developers here are sufficiently credited for their work, especially considering attempts to portray things incorrectly by others (cough.. playdiplomacy)

I have a few points:

a) Is there anyone with a senior position as a contributor in Wikipedia and/or experience with writing articles there among us?

b) We should stress the point that phpdiplomacy is based on work of volunteer coders from the community and completely free

c) We should list all of the current forks of phpdiplomacy, not just the Facebook version.

d) We should see if we can say more about the unique community here as well as the features.

e) Perhaps more details as to the reason Kestas stopped coding for? Objectively, of course.