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pitirre (0 DX)
12 Dec 07 UTC
last minute to play at turquoise days!!!
register...fast!!

i hope to see you all tomorrow and play this game that soon will become a classic. Now i will prepare because im going to see The Police at concert!!

yes!!!!
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james3838 (184 D)
12 Dec 07 UTC
Is this a bug? Cut supportting army?
Spring 1908, Diplomacy: Your army at Ukraine was attacked by the army at Sevastopol, but your army at Ukraine was supporting an attack against the army at Sevastopol and the army at Sevastopol has no support, so the army at Sevastopol failed.

MOS - SEV
UKR S MOS - SEV
SEV - MOS

MOS - SEV failed - very clearly 2 v 1
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figlesquidge (2131 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Right: final showdown!
So, after a long thread that got nowhere in establishing the best diplomacy player of all time, one last go. Everyone may have one vote, just a single positive vote for your favourite. The votes will be checked through for double voting, or for multiple accounts voting. For anyone who wasn't following, the options are:
Kahn
Bismarck
Alexander
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Kahn for me (started with nothing, got loads then when he died it died showing he was the reason it built up)
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the dictator (65 D)
09 Dec 07 UTC
Greatest diplomacy player ever final 3
Khan
Bismarck
Alexander the great

everybody is aloud to vote once and there is a new rule dont give a reason to why the person you are voting for is good but why he is better then the other two. And you give 2 pionts to your fav 1 to your second
first person to 200 wins

I will start by voting for Khan, he united all of mongalia, which is just as good as bismarck uniting germany, he conquered more land with fewer troops than alex the great did and bismarck was never a ruler, alex was an alcholic and died of alchol poising at 32 wich is why he did not conquer as much as khan but that was his fault. i think that is enough reasons on why khan is the greatest of the 3 and alex was greater than bismarck so...

Khan 2
Alex 1
bismarck 0
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Tman401 (126 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Ciil Disorder
Does any one know how long it takes for some one to go to civil disorder? I was just curious, waiting for some of the players in my games.
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Wolf Of Fenris (100 D)
11 Dec 07 UTC
Is there a way to leave a game?
I was just fooling around with this site, joined a friends game then decided to change my account name... so I created a new account, joined with that account, and was going to leave the game with the original account. Now I can't figure out how to leave the game with my original account and I have two players in the game...
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pitirre (0 DX)
11 Dec 07 UTC
hurry up; turqouise days!!
register to play at turquoise days; a game considered to be a classic among the experts!!

register...now!!
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Zxylon (0 DX)
09 Dec 07 UTC
World War XVIII is in Due Now Phase
Kestas. Please fix our game
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dangermouse (5551 D)
26 Nov 07 UTC
No Press Game completed
Well, the no-press (i.e. Gunboat) game has ended. It went about as I expected. With no talking and no real way to infer what other players were thinking (seeing as how most moves could not be seen) there was basically no working together. We did have several apparent non-aggression pacts going on. For example there was little to no fighting between myself (Italy) and France or Germany.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2022
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pitirre (0 DX)
11 Dec 07 UTC
new great game created; Turquoise Days
not for the weak of mind; play at turquoise days!!!

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Thucydides (864 D(B))
11 Dec 07 UTC
What happens when (if) you run out of points?
I see people with zero points and I'm wondering: Can you even take part in games anymore or are you effectively booted off the site?
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knottybynature (100 D)
11 Dec 07 UTC
new game
I need noobs to come and play in the I need new players room.
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bihary (2782 D(S))
06 Dec 07 UTC
misunderstanding with dip points
There are many top 100 players whose dip points I do not understand. Take, for example, Seedling (I do not want to pick on him, this is just an example):
Seedling's profile:
Points: 492
Position: 96
Games won: 1

No active games, let us look at his results from finished games. I am listing game name, pot size, Seedling's result, and the dip points he should have earned. I calculate it as: Pot * (Units at end)/34. It is not exact, but should be a good estimate, right?

Finished games:
Diplomacy... Autumn 1915
Pot: 165
Seedling (492) as England: 9 units
Earned: 44 DP

FoC Diplo Game! Autumn 1914
Pot: 154
Seedling (492) as England: 15 units
Earned: 68 DP

Light and Dark Autumn 1909
Pot: 154
Seedling (492) as France: 12 units
Earned: 54 DP

FOC 6 Autumn 1909
Pot: 132
Seedling (492) as Italy: 9 units
Earned: 35 DP

FOC 3 Autumn 1907
Game won by Seedling (492)
Pot: 110
Seedling (492) as Turkey: 18 units
Earned: 58 DP

So altogether he earned 259 DP points. OK, he started from 100 DP, so he may have 359 DP. But I did not even count his investments he had to pay to join those games!
How on earth does he have 492 DP points? Do I misunderstand something here? I see the same too high points typically for players who are not active any more... An other example is mate.
Something fishy is going on...
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gameover (619 D)
11 Dec 07 UTC
new game
recyle please! is up and open
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sean (3490 D(B))
09 Dec 07 UTC
treaty etiquette
i wanted to ask some of the players , especially the more successful ones among you about game etiquette, first..is there any? one makes a deal (say an agreed upon DMZ for example)... is it consider bad form to break that deal that turn? i should imagine so but it seems not. one should follow the letter of the law ( deal)but the spirit of the law is more ..shall we say flexibly followed? or do we live in a hobbesian dog eat dog world? on a more practicable note..do you lie directly to your fellow countries or fob them off with civil but meaningless phrases? or pretend you didn't sign in and was therefor unaware of their offer? just like to here some general thoughts on the subject.
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keeper0018 (100 D)
01 Dec 07 UTC
name games...
i know that the leader of germany is the kaiser, the leader of turkey is the sultan, the leader of russia is the czar, the leader of italy is il duce, and the leader of england is the prime minister. but what do you call the leaders of austria and france?
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Stephen V (345 D)
09 Dec 07 UTC
Too many in Civil Disorder
What the heck people? I mean really. I was a member of this site before and there were a few games with people in civil disorder but not all that often. Now look. It seems EVERY game I'm in there is someone in civil disorder. If you look through the join-able games there is a whole page of civilly disordered countries you can join! If you're going to play, PLAY! don't ruin games for people. This site is for fun. I know it's not serious, but it's not fun when you expect a proper game and from the start it's not. It's just not worth playing after that. And if you're losing, tough it out. Win on another game. You can't win them all.

Seriosuly people.
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RepsaJ (100 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
Bug?
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=1954

I clearly got 9 SC's. Why I still got 7 units? Can someone help me out?
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bajeezus (574 D)
09 Dec 07 UTC
Due...well, a while ago
I'm in a game that's been "due" for like two days now. I mean, I wouldn't care if I were like a lot of you, but I'm only in two games total...makes it annoying if you get me.

Anyways, hopefully just by posting this the fates will miraculously change the game to make me look stupid...but, then again, that just means I can keep playing, stupidity is a sacrifice I'm willing to make...oh yeah, if the fates are still bastards, kestas (that's the guy in charge here right?) could you maybe see what the problem is?

Thanks a bunch. I love you all. Except you, yeah you reading this. Everyone else is cool but you...unless your Kestas...way to go man, you rock!!! Wow I'm gonna stop typing now...
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Vampiero (3525 D)
04 Dec 07 UTC
Player Demographics
I was just curious at what type of people play diplomacy in general, so i thought id ask here. if you guys want, just write some info about yourself such as:
-what country you live in
-gender and age
-married or not
-profession
-hobbies
some of these questions might be personal so feel more than free to omit any of them. no names please.

California, USA
male, 18
college student
martial arts, racing, philosophy, and of course DIPLOMACY!
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Name: Ivo
Location: Porto, Portugal
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Single
Profession: Master's degree Student and Researsher in GECAD
Hobbies: on-line games (Diplomacy included obviously..), Football Manager, Pro Evolution Soccer (love Football aka Soccer :D), watching Premier League, Champions League and Futebol Clube do Porto games (;D) and coral music
bartdude24 (100 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Philadelphia, PA
21 male/ not married
college student
figlesquidge (2131 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Looking at that I think i must be pretty much top if points are divided by age :P
Rait (10151 D(S))
05 Dec 07 UTC
I think that we have had this demographics topic in the forum already before (few months ago & different details /country, age, gender/ separately). It would be nice to have an option for this 'standard' information in Your profile, although people can put the same information in a less structured way to their profile already now (into 'Comment' box).

My name is Rait (which indeed looks really different from my user name here), male, 28, married, 3 sons (like in some fairy tale), living in Estonia. Educational background is biotechnology, psychology & public administration. Working as a consultant & lecturer & serial entrepreneur. As I'm very troubled workoholic and having obligations towards my family 'rest of the time', I have not that much time for hobbies (except for Diplomacy, of course), but when I used to have some more time, I went for riding, were fascinated about photography (which is not that original in this community) and reading. My new 'hobby' in the future will be probably renovating an old manor house which I bought this spring - this is probably the place where my every penny goes which I will ever earn in the future.

Turned out to be an essay. I'm all open now, You can use this information against me on the battlefield ;)
bajeezus (574 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
...Everyone knows photographers can't take Marseilles in the Springtime, excellent!!!
aoe3rules (949 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
lol.
aoe3rules (949 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Alan Robinski, M, 68 or 13 (depending on which set of lies you listen to)
Locke (1846 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Location: Glastonbury, somerset, UK
Gender: male
Age: 17
Occupation: Student of Law, Government and politics, History and geography.
Married: i dont't think i've ever been that drunk....
Hobbies: Avoiding hwk, and of course Diplomacy!
csibadajoz (527 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Badajoz, Spain
34 years old
Married: Yes, and a boy (2 years)
My € came from: Software developer
Others: board games and eurogames
Sun_Tzu (2116 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
41 years old, married, just had my first child(boy).
Occupation: Real Estate entrepreneur
Hobbies: Football(GO Steelers!), Paintball(been playing off and on since 1985), golf((sigh) all my friends play), Computer games, Martial Arts, scuba diving, and sky diving. Oh I also belong to a Diplomacy club in Chicago that play face to face games every month.
Chrispminis (916 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
I think there's also something here with Dip players and martial arts. Rait, we've definitely done at least three of these threads before, but I keep on posting. So once more we find that there's an incredible variety of ages and nationalities, I don't know how so many different people can find the same site. Also, we find again that there is a huge imbalance between genders, I think I only counted one female responding to this thread. I wonder why that is... =\

Anyways, I'm also interested in how you all found phpDip. I submitted it to StumbleUpon a while back, but it still seems sort of surprising. I know I came upon it randomly, when I had the sudden urge to play Diplomacy, having played it F2F with some friends, and I started by googling. I finally settled on phpDiplomacy because it moves a lot faster than the rest of the online Diplomacy communities because they were mostly play by e-mail, with manual adjudication.

I was pleased to find a young community, only a few months old, and I've slowly dug myself a niche here. =)
Labond (140 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
23
Recent Graduate
I run RPGs, read philosophy and pretend to be a spy...
My voice also ends up on EVP recordings around the world (and they don't know why).

I found this nice site through Wikipedia.
james3838 (184 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
James
Seattle, WA, USA
39
Embedded Programmer (who can't figure out php or I would help Kestra)
Love running, biking, electronics, and PBEM (and now php) diplomacy.
Stumbled on this site while looking for something (probably obscure rule) for a PBEM game I was GMing. Got a bit stir crazy waiting for game to end, so started playing here for a quick fix... :)
Sorakan (126 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Location: Calgary, Canada
Gender: Male
Age: 18
Married: Technically no (commonlaw)
Profession : Line Cook/Prep Cook/Dishwasher
Hobbies: Politics, Diplomacy, History, Philosophy, Martial Arts (MMA), Rugby Union
fwancophile (164 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
yo sun tzu, i would love to fill in your monthly game if you ever need a 7th player.
Signalseven (116 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Dude
28 for about 9 days
Sunny Orlando FL, USA
Curently an emergency services dispatcher at one of the major theme parks.
I was told about this site by a co-worker that has since quit playing. We both quit back when the site had so many problems a few months back.
I came back to give it another shot and glad I did.
rexx78 (100 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Wells, UK
16
Male
Student
wawlam59 (0 DX)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Fang/ 23/ M/ China/ postgraduate student/ aircraft design/ basketball, diplomacy/ found php by googling.
Nick Douglas (408 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
Nick Douglas
San Francisco, CA, male, 23, in a decadent San Franciscan open relationship with a very lovely girl and whomever else I please
I write for a living. I used to edit a tech gossip site called Valleywag and I've gotten a silly piece about iPhones into Wired; now I'm starting a web show about people who make Internet videos. Also writing a web-based sitcom about a startup.

Found PHP Diplomacy by Googling in an evening of nostalgia for playing the board game in college.
cgwhite32 (1465 D)
05 Dec 07 UTC
"Nick Douglas
San Francisco, CA, male, 23, in a decadent San Franciscan open relationship with a very lovely girl and whomever else I please"

As we say in Britain, "Jammy sod"!
MarekP (12864 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Name: Marek
Country: Czech Republic
Gender and age: male, 42
married, daughter (20), son (17)
Profession: internet marketing consultant, teacher, writer and entrepreneur
Hobbies: my work, dogs, hiking/trekking, photography, Diplomacy, Go (a board game), history, literature.
A BABAY (100 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Nashville, Tennessee
male, 16
Junior in High School
I play baseball, go to a college prep school, work at my church, play in the stock market and am now Completely addicted to Diplomacy.

I was introduced by my English teacher but directed to the actually by my friends little brother who also plays. We've kinda started an endemic in our school, we get new players each day...

and isn't it weird that there are so many 18's?
flashman (2274 D(G))
06 Dec 07 UTC
Play "in" the stock market...?

When you grow up, you'll be able to play on it too... ;)
Zxylon (0 DX)
06 Dec 07 UTC
My name is Adam from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania.
18
Freshman at American University in Washington DC
Politics, Football (both kinds), board games. I hate Risk.
gameover (619 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
What? Is this the Myspace Thread?
gameover (619 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Hey ya'll I'm Chris
Big Bad State o' TEXAS, Houston (state pride yea!)
Age: 16
HS Student
Diplo Rulz!
thewonderllama (100 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
chicago
male / 28
not married
sysadmin / perl programmer
programming, martial arts (sorta, haven't been to class in a while, but planning to go back), bowling

some months ago i got the urge to play some diplomacy and joined some pbem games and then found this site while obsessively googling about the game :)
Sun_Tzu (2116 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
To fwancophile or anyone else interested in live Diplomacy and lives close or travels to Chicago. There is an active club there and they are always looking for new players! There is also a strong club in Seattle. For Chicago here is the website and we have a yahoo group we all belong to which can be joined by anyone. http://www.umbreho.dyndns.org/wcw/
haer (433 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
Gothenburg, Sweden
Male, 28
single
Working with internet stuff for companies. Like colocation, voip and such
saulberardo (2111 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
Saul Berardo
Brazil/Pará/Belém
Male, 21, married
work with Telecom in a brazilian RFCC equivalent
study computer science in a local university
all my free time is spent studing french, playing diplomacy, and meeting friends...

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figlesquidge (2131 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
Suggestion: Gamemaster link
On games stuck in 'Run Now' please could we have a link to set them as unprocessed. Currently, if for some reason the Gamemaster does not run correctly, the game is left as processed, and so does not get processed next time, even though it needs to be. Another option would be in the bottom of the help page to have a 'clear Blocked games' link. Thus only players who had intentionally gone to find the link would click it - you wouldn't have people just running the gamemaster again and again wasting resources
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alamothe (3367 D(B))
07 Dec 07 UTC
trtrttrtrtrtr
kestas, we broke the game: http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2267
please fix it
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ice point (55 D)
02 Dec 07 UTC
brother
Chairman Mao and arthurmklo are brother?
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Gengis (100 D)
07 Dec 07 UTC
Further bug
last round it was indicated that Turkey had not yet finalized its orders by the deadline, yet when they were evaluated it turns out they had been. very annoying.
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amathur2k (100 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
advertise phpdiplomacy on google
Hi Guys,
I have an experimental google adwords account.
and am planning to advertise phpdiplomacy

just wanted to find out if its legal and if you guys can come up with good punch lines.
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El_Perro_Artero (707 D)
08 Dec 07 UTC
Compromise
I've heard a lot of arguing over whether the pot should be split by SC's or a winner-take-all kind of deal. Why don't we just make this an option when creating games? I'd like to hear some other suggestions though.
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figlesquidge (2131 D)
04 Dec 07 UTC
Greatest Diplomacy Player - last 3 (cont.)
17 Alexander
19 Bismarck
14 Khan
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Still going, and I must admit I'm surprised. Please, when voting, everyone give a reason!
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jasperleeabc (100 D)
06 Dec 07 UTC
Bug?
Somehow I don't receive notification for messages from other player, why? Is it a bug? It happened in the game "tusker".
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daniele (197 D)
07 Dec 07 UTC
bugs...
i think recently there are many bugs in the game

look at this situation for example

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2195

why can't i retreat from s.petersburg since bothnia is free, as finland, and bar.sea!!! i can't understand it
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Otto Von Bismark (653 D)
30 Nov 07 UTC
Greatest Diplomacy Player
I am Honored that you all agree that I am the greatest Diplomacy player of all time :) I will add a +1 to myself if that is legal and -1 to Genghis.
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