8 (anon games with a non-anon pre-game - or is that really 1?)

3. (maybe at first just for games with turns of less than 10 minutes)

7.

Can't say I am keen on a point-and-click map. Playdiplomacy have one and it is horrible. The drop down boxes here work really well.

7) by a big margin
2) nice but not essential
8) minor time saver: automated disbands when no retreat possible or no SCs left

7! Maybe 3.

8) minor time saver: automated disbands when no retreat possible or no SCs left

Yes, that is probably the second best one behind 7.

1-7 are all good but if I had to choose, 4 - smartphone support (Blackberry specifically) followed by 2 or 7.

I would also add in 8 - Email notification option for when a new message is received in the center tab of your hompage. That way you could keep up with messages and game notifications while on the go.

8 a minor tweak to the end game. The game should not end before retreats. Occasionally this can stop a player from making 18.

i like 1,2,3

and 7

And I second ZaZa's 8 of the autodisbands when no options are available on retreats and would extend that to include the adjustments phase. In other words, if you are losing your last unit cause you lost your last SC, you shouldn't be able to hold up the game. When combined with email notifications, it will at least tell you why you didn't see that last non-move so people will be notified of the phase change.

@Spyman has it right. In fact, I believe the official rules doesn't declare the winner until after the retreat phase for just that reason.

And I second ZaZa's 8 of the autodisbands when no options are available on retreats and would extend that to include the adjustments phase. In other words, if you are losing your last unit cause you lost your last SC, you shouldn't be able to hold up the game. When combined with email notifications, it will at least tell you why you didn't see that last non-move so people will be notified of the phase change.

Don't give me credit for diplomat61's idea.

So I guess my vote goes to 8 - make the game follow the official rules and don't allow a player (who has no further role to play) to slow down the flow of the game out of spite, disdain, or apathy.

Sorry, seconding diplomat61s #8, then.

6, 4 (FB interop may allow better self-policing against multi-accounters)

2 (would be nice for live games, I guess)

8 (a resign button [I too hate it when players leave, but I'd rather they immediately go into CD then wait the full 5 min each round in a live game] + I like diplomat's idea)

I don't care for:
1 (I fear it would spread the players too thin, remove focus from the pure game)
3 (not sure what this is)
5 (like making it searchable? eh. not a big issue to me)
7 (sounds like the most effort for the least return)

8. More mods to help police meta and multis. There are just too many cheaters and not enough mods.

3,4,5 for me. Looks like everyone has different priorities..

3 means you would be able to see instant messages (that is, without needing to refresh).

3 would really encourage communication i think and be a huge boost for live games (if you think that's a good thing :)

Fixing CD disbands and Winning before retreat phase are the two biggest, imho.

3,7,1

Honestly, not 2. I really like the current set up. Not sure how I feel about point and click.

"2. Point-and-click map support"

Yeah I don't really think point and click is a good idea either... imagine hitting the wrong space in a live game etc... some territories are pretty small, think of Ska and Albania.

Webdip on FB seems to have more probs with multi accounters and players who drop out when things go against them so I am very against 6).

I'd love better iPhone access. I can view the map fine, but messaging is a pain, and it has hampered my play when I'm away from the computer for a while. I did play a bit on a borrowed iPad, and that's even better than a real computer because it's so easy to enter orders on the touch screen.

5, 7, 3, 4.

And by better forum support, I hope you mean the ability of moderators to "sticky" posts. That would be awesome, and would take like two lines of code.

The others, I don't care at all about, and in fact, would prefer to NOT have point and click order support or new variants. A. I think that would mess people up more, and B. I hate variants. (Although I don't mind them occasionally.) Let the other sites do variants, they do them anyway.

8 - autodisbands as mentioned by a few people would be great
3 - very useful for live games
7 - would be good but not sure how easy it is to achieve. Some meta police could help
4 - useful as well

not fussed by the others

Those *against* 2:
It wouldn't be added as a replacement, merely as an alternative: surely that's an improvement.
Also, when I get round to finishing the code, you'll be able to turn it off anyway, so I can't see it'll be much of an issue.

@Kestas - Are you thinking of doing imagemap-based point&click?
I expect you know them already, but my views:
1 - Most important, but mainly adding more game options than variants - Touch as chat option, FoW and Custom Start as game options.
7 - It wouldn't take much, I think I made some suggestions on the dev forum that would greatly decrease the time taken for us to deal with cases.
5. Not many boards, it would reduce the 'life' on the forum, but the ability to have some things stickied/locked would be very useful.

Some feedback on the responses so far:

2. Point-and-click map support
This would be done in a way that complements the existing drop-down lists, rather than replaces them
"If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." --Henry Ford.
This might be one of those things, I think people might make better use of point-and-click (if well done) than they think

3. Live chatbox support
This means when you hit "post" the message is updated without refreshing the rest of the page, which means faster, and you can alternate between different tabs and get updates of new messages without refreshing the page

5. Better forum support
I'm not really sure exactly what this would mean, I just wanted to see how many people ranked it as a top priority. Don't worry about how many lines of code it'd take to do this or that though, outsider estimates of those sorts of things are bound to be way off

7. Better, more automated safeguards against multi-accounters
Interesting that so many voted for this. A couple of things to say here;
- jcbryan97 is right that it would be a lot of effort for a questionable gain. It's hard to think of ways to automate what is largely an intuitive process done by moderators, but it is interesting to see how many prioritize this one
- If we could just recruit more mods we would, and we have tried, but in reality being a mod is hard, sustained work; assigning new mods really isn't a solution

8. Other - No-retreat=disband
I understand this request, it is old as the hills, but for technical reasons it's really pretty tricky to think how it would actually be done (especially across all variants). Basically the server can only check whether a given order is valid, it can't generate a list of valid orders to tell whether retreating is an option (that is done in JavaScript). Figuring out how to do that in a neat way server-side is trickier than it sounds, but I'll try and work it out

@fig; not too worried about implementation right now, just seeing what people are interested in