I came back after several months, and it happens that i only have 5 coins left, I find this an impossible number to win back coins with. I have only one game and I already am at a disadvantage because i was unable to play on the first turn. I think that there should be a minimum number of coins like 50 or so.

Hi, i think we all know the rules. Everyone posts three words in the story. No one can post multiple times in a row. And to comment, you put your words in parenthesis. (like so.)

the first story is available here:
http://www.freewebs.com/hiimme333html/phpLonglongstory.html

why isnt it updating? I have been refreshing games for a couple hours now after finalizations are complete.

This seems strange

I ordered an army to move into a province that had my fleet in it. I ordered the fleet to move into the sea
But when I come back, it says the fleet was attacked by the army I had moved, and now it has to disband

This also happened when I tried to get them to switch places, by getting them to swap territories (using move orders) but it registered as them attacking each other so they bounced

What is up with that?

Ok. Let's pretend I'm France. An army in Marseilles supports hold at Burgundy. Burgundy supports move from Picardy to Belgium. Now, Ruhr attacks Burgundy. Does Marseilles' support fend off the attack, therefore causing the support from Burgundy to stand, effectively supporting a support? This is no specific game, just an issue that has come up several times.

I was just wondering what inspires peoples' names on this site? Some people obviously have historically significant names but others seem to have fairly random ones......so i guess i'm hoping some people will explain what ( if anything) their name is inspired by!

This is just to let the members of "No-Press Game II", and "GFTD6", that I will be going away for 10 days starting this friday. Which means that I won't be able to enter any orders. I'm not sure how you want to handle this, whether you would rather wait the ten days, not entering any orders, or just have me fall into CD.

It's entirely up to you.

Kestas, the three of us in the game Circumlocutions (http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2091) have agreed to a draw. Recent messages between all remaining parties should back this up. Could you please do your magic draw voodoo at your convenience? Thanks.

i understand that it would be both impossible and undesirable to see the entire list of threads from now back to the dawn of phpdip, but i'm curious if old threads still exist in the database somewhere or if they're cleaned out when they fall off the list. also, is the messaging history that gets rotated out of the message boxes in game deleted, or is it still out there, just unviewable?

we've pretty much finished the much-press game and i was interested in saving/looking back at the messaging later, as it was both hilarious and instructive. thinking it might be interesting to look back on it, i did my best to save it as i went along, but even so i know i have some gaps in my logs. not anything critical, but it got me wondering about what happens to that text after it scrolls off... kestas? anyone else know?

I have not heard any updates on the tournament's status. Are we still running strong? Did all 7 games get off the ground? I was hoping for an update. Thanks

the game is at:

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2092

I am posting this to vote for a draw to end the game, at any time, players in that game can check here and post if they want to end it or not. The most recent post of any given player shall be valid, and all players must agree to a draw for the draw to occur.

Game Godly2
http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2170
Pot: 269
Take over ChairmanMao for 376
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If I'm not wrong, taking this country would cost more points than could be earned for 18-point victory. Is this correct or is this a bug?

I love the game but sometimes I need a hefty fix for a few hours instead of this luxurious 24-hour cycle. Where can I quench this thirst?

could we please agree on using following terms a little bit more carefully in forum subjects:

Bug ... obvious problem of the game, that is not stated in FAQ / Help
Serious / Severe Bug ... problem of the game that prevents you from continuing playing
Known Problem ... problem of the game, that is already known
Feature ... something the developer has decided to implement it that way
Request ... asking the developer to change how a certain feature is implemented
Question ... asking the community about something you are uncertain about; as long you can't prove a bug, you just have a question
Help ... you need help of an administrator, e.g. because a game is stuck in due now

For some reason, every 2nd topic here contains the word "Bug" although it is actually a simple question or a request.

In the body of your post, you can of course use whatever language you want to. ;-)

Let's pretend I have an army in Bulgaria and a fleet in the Aegean as Austria. There is a Turkish fleet in the Black Sea, and an army in Constantinople. If Bulgaria moves to Con with support from Aegean, and a Russian fleet from Rumania moves to Black Sea, why would Black Sea be able to both stop the attack on Con by moving to Bulgaria AND defend itself from the Russian fleet? Shouldn't I have gotten into Con, and lost Bulg, and Russian taken Black Sea? I don't get it.

Until this is sorted out by someone in the code, please will players be considerate and not delay games just because they can. If you have no SC's in Autumn, disband your unit if you get a retreat order, and just because you're effectively out of a game doesn't mean you shouldn't finalize.
What was the overall consensus on naming and shaming those who do this?

Starting a new game and the ante is 10 per player. Join soon.

I checked and didn't see this elsewhere... sorry if I missed it. I know the official rules but also know the php has some deviations.

Can forces move from Spain to North Africa and vice-versa?

Should the esteemed player of France in my current game be reading, I merely ask as a matter of curiosity... :)

I know i wrote a little patch for this in the past, but since then the points system has been added, and so the progress lost. Please would you update the site so that players are deemed 'out' at the end of the autumn when they have no SC's - in one of my games a doomed player has been holding us up for the last few days, and now has no SC's and one unit, but we still must wait

In a real war things do depend a bit on luck and the feature I would like to see in phpdiplomacy is that of espionage.

For every 5/6 sc's each player should get to deploy 1 spy on some country and then based on a low random probability all messages sent to and from this country should be reported to the first country for 6 months. Each player can probably have at max 1 spy per year i guess.

Often i see players with congested sc's maybe a spy could be constructed as an option to a unit.

i was posting a new message with requests, while I had other threads open in tabs (Firefox) when I posted the message, it posted it as a response to the last thread I had opened "feature request for kestas"

(since I want the requests heard and don't want to spam the forum with thread, I'm reposting it here)

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I'm playing France in the game "Syracuse"
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2426

My fleet in Marseilles was self dislodged.

I see now that it is listed as a known problem in the FAQ.

Any chance I could get this fixed? (If not, hey, my fault for not reading the FAQ more clearly.)

I'd also like to request the ability to see all the orders submitted by each player. Face-to-Face diplomacy obviously include this, and i think it's an important part of the game, it's the way to see where the alliances are, and especially since the adjudicator isn't at 1.0 yet, it lets the players double check to make sure the system is working correctly.

new game: betting your life is opened. Pot is 207, since that is all I have and I will bet all of it in one go...

I have a question.

Can a supporting unit be supported, such as in this example:
Eng. Fleet North Sea support fleet English Chanel
Eng. Fleet English Chanel support Army Belgium to Picardy
French Fleet Brest support Fleet Mid Atlantic to English chanel
What would happen in this situation?

Higher stakes game: 101 the ante

Hoping for a good game, I look forward to seeing you!

hey y'all what's the best way to communicate with the players in my game? i just joined this website

Neville Chamberlain, Louis XVI, Inspector Clouseau -- what famous suckers would you want against you in a 700-point game, if you dared join such a bunch of pawns?

Kestas, please draw the game SMSS (http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2066), I am France and Austria has already agreed as it is a 17-17 split.

Have any of the GFDT games ended yet?

dear kestas, my english fleet is forced to retreat from St. petes but the program isnt allowing it to move into the baltic, please inspect. http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2299&orders=on#orders
Thanks

I had attempted a move earlier in a game I am playing that failed, and I'm not sure why. Here's the move:
A Bre -> F English Channel via convoy
F EC -> convoy from Bre to North Sea
F North Sea -> convoy from EC to Denmark
F Heligoland Blight -> Support move to Denmark from North Sea
There was an enemy army in Denmark, Norway, and in that same turn I was able to dislodge the enemy in Kiel (so Kiel would not have been able to support Denmark). There were no other units close to Denmark, unless you count Berlin, but they don't connect and Berlin wouldn't be able to support Denmark

At the turn, I was told the support move was not accepted and the army was unable to move into Denmark. It doesn't matter now in that game, since I just used my fleet in Heligoland Blight to take it the next turn. But now I'm stuck with an army in the wings that I could have easily used in Germany supporting or advancing.

But it does matter again, since I am faced with a similar situation. The army that was in Brest is now in Belgium, waiting to be convoyed to Norway through the North Sea with support from Norwegian Sea, Denmark and Sweden. But if the move is not possible, I want to do something else. The game is 2189 if it matters.