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I've seen quite a few different ranks on this site both good and bad.
I was wondering how many there are, and what significance do they hold in the gameplay.

It seems to me that in most of the games that I have taken part in on here that the winner has won because one of player's neighbours has pulled out of the game and left his centres free to be taken without hindrance. Would that be a fair assessment of games in general?

The little circle next to a player's name in each profile looks broken to me. It's showing every single player as online.

I understand that phpDip does not support draws. But is there a way to terminate a game without declaring a winner or winners if all players agree?

Has there been a problem with the site? The end of phase has been stuck on 'due now' for about 3 hours, and won't refresh.

come on and join for some great fun and intense battle!

I think the length of time it takes to put someone into civil disorder is the potentially fatal flaw of phpdiplomacy.

Kestas, if you could please have a look at http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=1333

It would be very sweet if you could set Gihren Zabi to cd in all his games.

I've found that recently, I've had a problem with dialogue between myself and other players being unreadable because instead of the page elongating as new discussions are added in-game, they just extend behind the map and cannot be read. I was wondering if anyone else has had this difficulty, or if it is just my own computer being silly.

Pardon the (probably) irate tone of this message. In the game North by Northwest, I ordered a convoy into Denmark. I recieved the error message, "Your fleet was attacked, so couldn't convoy." Now, I own the game, and the rulebook clearly states that "An attack on a convoying fleet that does not dislodge it does not disrupt the convoy." Am I missing something here?

if a unit is supporting a move and itself is supported by another unit then can it not still uphold its support even if it is attacked by an unsupported enemy? My example: MAO attacks enemy unit in Portugal supported by Spain. spain is supported by Marseilles. Enemy attacks Spain with no support. GameMaster then tells me that the attempt to take over Portugal has failed because the support from Spain failed as it had to see off the attack from Gascony. But shouldn't the support from Marseilles allow it to see off this attack without losing its ability to support the attack on Portugal? Is this perhaps a fault in the software?

sum of are game mates are going to miss 5 days of game, can a game go to a recess or just not being played? if not, what happand if I miss the time of phashe?

How are ranks calculated? I read somewhere that it depended on the numbers of games you have won, games you have played and the games you are currently playing. But what is the exact formula? I thought it depended on the win ratio, but apparently it doesn't.

This really takes the biscuit! You have 1 unit left, no supply centres, and it's Autumn so rather than do the honorable thing and disband, you retreat and hold everyone else up an extra 24 hours without finalising.

Of course I complain about this, and the perpetrator responds with a lengthy diatribe laden with offensive language. And yet even while typing this, he still doesn't find enough time to click "finalise"... he is out of the game, he knows it, and he is deliberately keeping all the other players hanging on out of what can only be spite!

I won't be so cruel as to publically name this person, but I will say that he is one of the prime crusaders against "metagaming" - he expects to get away with behaviour like this because holding a grudge into the next game is SOOO wrong! He wants to have his cake and eat it!!

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Fri 06 Jul Autumn 1910, Diplomacy: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
Sat 07 Jul Autumn 1910, Retreats: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
Sun 02 PM Autumn 1910, Unit placing: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
Mon 02 PM Spring 1911, Diplomacy: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
Tue 02 PM Spring 1911, Retreats: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
02:40 PM Autumn 1911, Diplomacy: Nothing happened involving your units in this phase.
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I'm scrubbed in this game, with no units, and have been for a few turns, but some areas are still coloured in my country's colour and I think that's why this game is still showing up under my profile.

I am British and it ergo pains me to see my country called 'England' in this game. England is one of the United kingdom’s three mainland member countries. Whales and Scotland are both countries (with limited sovereignty) ruled by national assemblies (Scotland by the Scottish assembly) (and whales by the welsh assembly). The foreign policy of Scotland, whales and the English law are managed from the houses of parliament in London (in England). On an international level 'England', 'Scotland', 'whales' and ‘northern Ireland' (another country in the UK, in Ireland though, not on the mainland) do not exist. The country (in pink, currently called ‘England’) on this game is not England it is the United Kingdom, I feel that the name should be changed on this game, at least to 'The UK'
Or if you are feeling pedantic; ‘The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland’ :)

Calling the UK ‘England’ is similar to calling the USA Florida.

Empires at War

Pong, Thu 07 PM:
Well, anyway I'm holding up more than half the forces in this game, which is hilarious.

Vash, Fri 03 AM:
I am not even forcus on your really

Pong, 04:23 AM:
En garde! Focus this!
*Lunges*

Vash,04:56 AM:
This is not an RPG site soooo yea.

Vash, 05:02 AM:
How about this, you help me win this game and I will do the same in a game for you but it has to be when I have finsh one of my games - You can make a game and tell me what time you are so I can join - And I will help you out even if I have to give up all of my supply points

Vash, 09:51 AM:
Nice job!

Pong, 04:15 PM:
Well I do enjoy messing with people.. but I also enjoy winning.
Wouldn't that look suspicious if we're like, pwning some games and falling over in others?

Vash, 06:43 PM:
Nope, people do it all the time, dummy accounts and friends

join now. did i mention THERE'S NO PASSWORD? oh, wait, i did. never mind.

I'm in the game "mid level players", and when I try to enter the game, I get this error:

"Error triggered: An assertion, $helpunitid, was not met as required..

"The details of this error have been successfully logged and will be attended to by a developer."

This has been happening all day, ever since I tried to submit my orders this morning. Will I be able to continue playing this game?

How do you swap a fleet for an army during a game? I built too many fleets and now want to "trade them in" for armies. Is that possible during a game and if so how?
Thanks.

I just joined a match "For Fun" where everyone is in CD. And i get Russia which is the one with 1 fleet unit, in Finland, with no hope of adding to their SCs count.

Goodbye 0.5 ratio!

I had my own army destroy my own army!! what is that all about?? I was moving an army from tyrolia to venice with support from trieste and an army from vienna to tyrolia with support from bohemia. When the move finished my army which was going to venice actually disappeared from the board (before any retreat/disband orders were given) and my army from vienna was in tyrolia!! and I quote: "Autumn 1903, Diplomacy: Your army at Tyrolia was overwhelmed by an attack from the army from Vienna, and forced to retreat." Surely you can't defeat your own army??

Here is how I understand it: a unit can be the target of a support hold order if and only if it is not moving. It can be holding or supporting and a support hold order will be valid, but if the order is to move, then it cannot be the target of a support hold. If this is the case, then why was there a stalemate when Livonia was successfully supported by Moscow into StP in this game?

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=1340

I would like to alert other players about joining games with Gissett and noonan. They allied in a game I am in and they worked together even when it was not in noonan's interest and continued working together even after Gissett attacked noonan. Noonan may not be a full proxy for Gissett, but that is the impact. I have copied noonan's response to me when I challenged him about his play. You are forewarned.

"Look. i am not a proxy for anyone. i am just not bothered with this game given my mate stabbed me. i have no chance so i am more nterested in the games i can win. sorry. thats how it is"

I will be going on vacation for a week and will not have computer access. Could kestas please place my games in civil disorder?

i'm changing my email from [email protected] to [email protected] because Yahoo is evil (they endorse IE) and i get so much spam.

Hey, I've moved into a neutral empty Denmark successfully twice now, and it still doesn't belong to me.

My army actually stood in it for a turn.

Is this a bug?

moves like Kie-Den, Bud-Ser, and Mar-Spa don't have arrows going from the home center to the unoccupied center. is this because it makes it harder to read the names? (i'm sure everyone has noticed this already)

Got these 2 results in this game:
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=1295

1) Spring 1908, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Rumania prevented the army at Sevastopol from giving a support move against your fleet at Rumania.

2) Spring 1908, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Skagerrack disrupted the fleet at Skagerrack's convoy order.

Question 1: I thought that a unit could not cut support that was directed at it.

Question 2: What the heck does the number 2 mean?

"Spring 1909, Diplomacy: Your army at Warsaw prevented the army at Moscow from giving a support move against your army at Warsaw."
I thought a unit couldn't cut support of an attack against itself. Is this a bug?