There's an app!?!?

Hey romain

It's just the old name of the Site.

but it seems the games are not common between the two sites and the Apple APP only refer to phpDiplomacy

My amazement that this site exists is only exceeded by my amazement that I'm already a member and in the middle of winning a game...

It appears to be Facebook Diplomacy by another name. It's not all that good, to be honest.

You paid for this???

Scrap the app and just play here on your browser

The nice thing about Facebook/php/speedycomputing diplomacy is that my work computers allow it for placing orders at lunchtime, meaning it can be played without resorting to mobile phones. There seem to be a few good players there, and a lot of lazy nmr prone tits.

mromain: phpDiplomacy/webDiplomacy is this website. The old URL, phpdiplomacy.net still redirects here. The code of this website is open source on SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/phpdiplomacy/) and has been used to develop most new Diplomacy websites launched since the code of this website was written. Examples include Facebook Diplomacy and PLAYdiplomacy, as well as many websites dedicated to variant play or particular languages.

I've never seen the URL you provided, but it seems to be related to Facebook Diplomacy. I've never heard of an Apple App Store implementation of Diplomacy.

Here is the link to the application.
https://itunes.apple.com/fr/app/the-game-of-diplomacy/id325461768?mt=8

The issue with this app is you do not see the previous orders however what is good is it is very easy to place the orders

And you get little coloured squares behind the units!

I don't know if I like that...

How close are the save and ready buttons?

How accurate is the clock?

Do they have a forum simulator?

The Magistrate informs zultar that he is posting too quickly.

How willing are they to use smallpox in biological warfare?

mromain: Among they few things I've heard about Facebook Diplomacy is that it's glitchy and uses a way out-of-date phpDiplomacy code. Perhaps the creator of Facebook Diplomacy is trying to update his code, but it sounds like he's just trying to monetize his lackluster rip-off with a paid Apple App. I would try to get your money back.

I've not encountered any glitches yet. It is rather clunky and you have to type /draw to vote for draw (in the non-app version at least), but that gives it a kind of old school charm. Where it falls down is the relatively high numbers of players who don't give a damn about buggering off in the middle of a game.

Of course, I may have just been unlucky

@octavious: yeah, you'll get that in any site/app with a smaller user-base. I tried out backstabbr.com because a friend was on it and wanted me to test it out. It sucked. 2 years in, I was the only one playing.

so to recap:
- those two website are two independent websites with two independent community of players and games.
- only the second one offer an IPHONE application and a facebook apps
- this one (webdiplomacy) is the real website with the largest community

Am I correct?

Correct

Would be great to have an iphone/ipad application for Webdiplomacy. Is it planned?

Currently, no. We have a small group of devs and contributors on github who are working to improve the site. That alone is a huge amount of work for them.

There is also this other independent site that is also based on this site's code:
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/

independent somewhat; there's purposeful code development and moderator team crossover / communication even if they are technically independent.

The "speedycomputing" clone appears to be forked from a very old version of the software (version 0.82 from Oct 1, 2008).

This site is an installation using the latest version of the code (v1.36) found here:
https://github.com/kestasjk/webDiplomacy

@Valis2501: yes, I suppose "sister-site" is a better term to use, but the databases (and hence accounts, games, forum, etc.) are independent, which is what I was trying to convey.

Yes, I know this is really off topic, but join this game, beginners only... http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=157530

@Justin
use this thread instead threadID=216366

actually threadID=1216366

Webdip is a shitty knockoff of phpdiplomacy, which I invented

uh oh Thucy userID=57110

it has long been known that i am the one true kestas

I guess you could say kestas has gone...*sunglasses*...CD. userID=5088

Wait, why is he real but "Civil Disorder Germany" (no userID or stat page but you can put him into the profile search and it'll find him) isn't?

In the early days, a game could be created with fewer than 7 people. When that happened, certain countries were assigned a "Civil Disorder" country just to fill the void. All holds were used for orders so the game could progress.

Eventually, people came along and named their user name "Civil Disorder 'country name' ". Later came Civil Disorder Kestas, and then code was redone so games couldn't start with less than 7 people.

The old diplomacy board game i have bought allowed less than seven players games. There was rulles on how to play in this way. I would appreciate very much if it could be replicated in webdiplomacy.

1) The rules for less than seven players are crap.
2) they make sense to have if you can't get 7 people together in one room.
3) the last time there were less than 7 people posting on the forum at once was 2006-ish.

yebellez: So is the SourceForge URL I gave now out of date?

mromain: Yes, this is the real website: the original, official, open-source, ad-free implementation without 'premium' content restricted to members which pay/donate money.

Less than 7 players?
Two player games, try Intimate Diplomacy
Three player games: Don't, just don't - open a bottle of wine and play cards
Four players: open a bottle of wine and play Bridge
Five players: Ancient Med (Brilliant variant)
Six players: make Austria Germany a single country called the Axis , rest as normal

Yes, the sourceforge link is out of date, and only seems to go up to version 1.0 in its downloads.

The development activity has moved to GitHub. Note that a link to the GitHub repo can be found at the bottom of the page.

And of course there's vDiplomacy, the younger brother with a better (albeit stranger) education!