I don't think, at this point, that the quality of Russia's play matters that much. Germany's advance has been, and probably will be, a bit faster than it would have been had Russia entered reasonable orders, but Russia was in trouble regardless. Russia was Turkey's ally (thus far), so I'm not sure ...

There are people who want to support (with forum moderation, game moderation, etc.). The lack of action is on the site admin side getting those new people onboarded AFAIK.

The old email is no more regularly checked now, although we realize there still are a lot of references to it that should be removed. We're working on that. So is there just no way to reliably contact the mods anymore? Because if so that's a real big issue. Through my experiences with the mod forum...

I agree that Russia is incredibly weak in Modern, but I think the same issue goes for France in the gunboat version as well. Almost all of their neighbors are difficult to attack without one front deciding you're not worth it, and it feels like that's hard to achieve in gunboat. I see your point, b...

Russia decided to work with Turkey, and impressively deceived me and Austria, then stab Austria AND Germany early on and never pay a price. He successfully bluffed that his failure to take Rumania was a huge unplanned mistake, but in retrospect I don't think it was. W1901: The results of the autumn...

I have posted about this before but a portion of this is because the fleet in Murmansk is supposed to be an army. Apparently there was a coding error when the map was originally ported over to this site (or to vdip, not sure which one came first, but the error copied itself). See here for ~1995 arti...

Since it is gunboat, I am going to refrain from discussing the positions on the map and any specific impacts on strategy that the NMR may have caused (my last post was when Russia was still missing). I think the impacts are greater than you are giving credence for, though, for reasons that will be e...

Shouldn’t we all be voting cancel on this? Germany/Turkey/Austria are getting a pretty massive advantage here (some more than others)

You actually can do this with gunboat games, but not press. You should see an option to "fill with bots" if you select no press in the game creation menu.

Is a mod able to remove me from game 2 and give the spot to someone else who wanted to play? Some stuff has come up and there's no way I'll be able to finish the game (and a new player might as well take over now rather than later). Naming the country that’s to be taken over might help with this re...

I think all 3 counters (playing / civil disorders / taken over) are broken in one way or another. As for GR, yes it is an issue. If you join a game, your GR will be affected as if you played the whole time (win or lose). On the flip side, you can avoid hits to your GR by dropping out of games you ar...

@V+ It's winner-take-all in the event of a solo, under both scoring systems. SoS is the closest scoring method webDip has to reward the board-top in the event of a draw, so it seemed the best choice. Fair take, Doug. I guess the way I see it, the most diffiuclt result to earn is a win, and the seco...

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Do these bots actually change their orders based on press they receive, or is it essentially gunboat with bots independently spitting words out based on what they receive and the state of the board, but not actually factoring press into decision making? My limited experience so far suggests the latt...

The correct version of Modern Dip where Murmansk is an army and not a fleet

I am not a mod, but I would say two things: 1) If you think someone or some people joined with a predetermined intent to attack you, that probably falls under metagaming and should be reported using the in-game button. 2) Cheating accusations aren't supposed to be aired publicly in either in-game ch...

WebDips rating system is fairly broke these days. They have both webdip points and ghost ratings which is already confusing. The ‘Hall of Fame’ does break down by all time and ‘active in last 6 months’, but it doesn’t really filter right as the last 6 months section still has players who haven’t pl...

Getting the GR you have on public, low-bet games is actually pretty impressive. After about 200, when you have a bunch of low-ranked players in the game, even 3-way draws won't increase it much if at all, and 4-way or more draws will harm it. And there tends to be a lot of randomness in games with r...

This is always a tough area. If you play enough (non-anon) games on this or any other site, you will run into the same players. Sometimes you will run into the same players very often. If someone knows a certain player is very good, or very bad, or super trustworthy, or likes to make foolish stabs, ...

The developers made turkey extra powerful as they for some unfathomable reason have Italy attack Austria in the vast majority of games (over 80%) which is unrealistic to how diplomacy normally played both in regular and gunboat I think the data for gunboat games shows that Italy attacking Austria i...