Hey, it does seem to be working okay for me even if I leave it for a long time, but frankly the captcha gives us enough trouble that I'm planning to replace it with recaptcha.

If you're wondering about multi accounting etc you definitely need to declare that these accounts are the same person. Go to the profile of each account and go to the relationship area and create a relationship with each of the 17 users. Also be sure to make this very clear in the game you've set up...

You could do a lot of things.. I wanted to preserve the system jmo put in place as it seemed to be working well. The current system adds some forgiveness for consecutive turns, lets mods forgive turns, differentiates between live games and non-live, etc. I’m not saying you couldn’t make something li...

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Thu Jan 05, 2023 1:49 am

Curious, was there ever a series of games run (behind the scenes) where the old Fairbot played itself in France vs. Austria?

I wouldn’t be surprised if these bots have more experience playing Diplomacy against each other than all humans playing Diplomacy put together

How long does it take for base rate improvements to be reflected in the reliability rating? My base rate has been increasing, and the calculation implies that my reliability rating should be increasing as a result, but it's still stuck at its low point. Is this intentional? Right now the math on my...

While we're on the subject of ratings, my ghost rating seems to have gone down in the last two years, despite me not having played a single game. Is there perhaps something wrong with the calculation? Hmm, there may well be, I've never looked into how GRs are calculated. Definitely it could be some...

Yep that's right, here's a full post on it here: viewtopic.php?p=322507#p322507

Yep well spotted. With FB wrapping things up unfortunately they stopped hosting the bots. I'm not sure exactly what happened, whether they cut them off or our new proxy interfered somehow, or the site traffic increased, but the bots shut down in sets. At the same time the old MILA bots that the orig...

Hey all, Just want to say so happy that 2022 was a great year for webDip and Im looking forward to another good year. Really appreciate all the donators, the mods, the regulars, the characters, the anonymous people who seem to play quite a lot during work hours, huge thanks to everyone! Big thanks t...

Wish you all the best for real, sorry to hear about your mum but 94 is a good innings .. though I feel like your standup comedy routine might end up with you in a mental hospital or FBI watch list ;p take care

FYI I’ve disabled the bot alerts and added a service statuscake integrates with called Pushover which acts as an iOS app that is supposed to ignore everything and send critical notifications until they’re acknowledged. I’ll set a timer to go off tomorrow morning to check that it’s working

Welcome to all the people new to the site/forum here btw; sorry if you’ve got a bad first impression, the recent AI publication did but a fair bit of extra load on the system, though I can’t claim that’s the whole explanation. We are going through a bit of rocky period re: stability; I swear the sit...

Apologies all, I’ve added 24 hours and reset the last process period. Will look into what happened and let you know.

If you want to see a bunch of tricky examples and how they get adjudicated check out https://webdiplomacy.net/datc.php

I get it, but last time the problem was I didn't add enough time. The worry is that someone had orders to enter but it's late or they have other obligations, so they miss that 3 hour window to enter their orders and the next three hours they can't access the server, so they can't submit turns out o...

Amazing! Looking forward to reading the paper(s). How much investment would it be to get that many gpu cores and how many diplomacy players (worldwide) would join this site as a result? Are there any other communities/websites involved in similar efforts? Did this bit also use other websites to tra...

Hi all, With FAIR winding down their AI research they’ve decommissioned their FairBot which used to run our FvA GvI games. As a stopgap I subbed in the MILA bot just to see if it worked at all, and it looks like it does and at least plays sensibly. However I’ve never played an FvA game to any level ...

Im certain there could be more tweaking to be done to find an appropriate algorithm that is more or less fair (as measured by number/ratio of missed turns compared to a typical turn perhaps?) All in all, this is a much better simple solution than what was happening before thanks Hmm, it'd be intere...

Kestas, did you catch this from the global chat of this game? "2. When I put in the Pause vote a couple of days ago, the game also entered a Draw vote, which I did not enter." It reminds me of a serious error that I experienced back in 2009: https://webdiplomacy.net/forum.php?threadID=499708 Damn, ...

Regarding the game I fixed the bad adjudication so things can continue, thanks for reporting