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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
15 May 15 UTC
Will You Be My Friend?
Looking for some friends new and old to play with. 36 hours WTA nonanon. Don't care about points. So, will you be my friend?
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jbalcorn (429 D)
18 May 15 UTC
Old Timer's Game - Try Again
gameID=160895 This time I gave us some time to put it together. PM Me for password. People who joined in 2009 or before.
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steephie22 (182 D(S))
10 May 15 UTC
(+1)
King of the Hill
Special Rules Game:
A center is randomly selected (through chance) at the start of the game. Whoever controls it a decade later (Fall 1910) wins. If you solo before then, you win as well. Draws are not allowed. There will always be one winner and 6 losers.
Standard Map, 36 hour phases, WTA.
1. steephie22
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Yaniv (1323 D(S))
17 May 15 UTC
How is one's position calculated?
Is it based upon the number of games played? How recently the last games were played? The distribution of wins, survivals, loses?
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JamesYanik (548 D)
12 May 15 UTC
Evening Game EOG
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JamesYanik (548 D)
18 May 15 UTC
Ukraine replacement needed
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A_Tin_Can (2234 D)
18 May 15 UTC
New gunboat game
A member has asked us to advertise this game:

36 hour phases, Gunboat, Winner-takes-all, RR80%, 10 point buy in - gameID=160889
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Bayclown (0 DX)
02 May 15 UTC
Looking for Hoes
Anyone want to play a medium stakes game with the King of the Underworld?
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BluJayWarrior (100 D)
17 May 15 UTC
Gray checks/Saved moves
I know that when you click save instead of ready, you get a gray check. But if time runs out before you click ready, are your saved moves inputed or do you have no moves for that turn?
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zultar (4180 DMod(P))
17 May 15 UTC
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Colorblindness update and live game display option
Colorblind options are now live. Live game display option is also live. Both settings can be changed under "settings." Much thanks to ATC and the dev team, including thorfi, Kestas, and Oli. ATC will also push out the auto update fix for the colorblind option soon. You might have to manually update your map to see the change at the moment.
Please thank them for the work they do and let us know how much you enjoy these updates!
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wjessop (100 DX)
17 May 15 UTC
Thomas Cook 'received £3.5m payout' after death of holiday children
This is disgusting. Capitalism at its most vile.
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wjessop (100 DX)
17 May 15 UTC
LIVE REPLACEMENT RUSSIA NEEDED
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jmo1121109 (3812 D)
17 May 15 UTC
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To those arguing about Tsarnaev
These are the names you should be remembering:

Krystle Marie Campbell (29), Lu Lingzi (23), Martin William Richard (8), and Sean A. Collier (27). Not to mention the 264 other injured people. The bomber does not deserve to have his name remembered by society, they do.
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Beaumont (569 D)
15 May 15 UTC
Players needed
To fill out a locked game. Full disclosure several of us have played multiple games together, and some know one another personally, but we all leave that at the door and play to win.
gameID=160620
Ppsc, full press, non anon, 1901
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abgemacht (1076 D(G))
15 May 15 UTC
Tsarnaev sentenced to death on 6 of 17 counts
http://www.wbur.org/2015/05/15/tsarnaev-sentence-verdict-reached
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yassem (2533 D)
15 May 15 UTC
Ok, so I've got two questions
1. Why do all the threads get locked when they his 5 pages back?
2. What does the shark drink after killing a bunch of fish?
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jrdsplc928 (100 D)
16 May 15 UTC
An Ancient Mediterranean Game, looking for players.
I would like to start a game in the Ancient Mediterranean. There will be messaging and press, and maybe anonymous players. This game will have normal turn lengths (1 day) and may or may not be password protected. Would anyone be interested in this?
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Ges (292 D)
16 May 15 UTC
Why why why?
*Sob* -- We made it to Autumn 1907 with no NMRs -- nicely balanced gunboat . . . *chokes back tears*
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TrPrado (461 D)
04 May 15 UTC
To All Taking AP Tests
May the fourth be with you...for the next 2 weeks.
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oscarjd74 (100 D)
15 May 15 UTC
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Are there too many +1 whores on this forum?
Vote +1 on this post if you think there are.
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Valis2501 (2850 D(G))
10 May 15 UTC
→ ASK ?s ABOUT WEBDIP HERE ←
Rule 1: READ THE RULES; It is your responsibility to know and follow all the rules (http://webdiplomacy.net/rules.php)
Rule 2: Try the FAQ section (http://webdiplomacy.net/FAQ.php)
Ask questions not covered by Rules 1 and 2 and receive wisdom.
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Jancarius (109 D)
13 May 15 UTC
What happens if I'm bad at Diplomacy and run out of points?
Title
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orathaic (1009 D(B))
13 May 15 UTC
North Koeran Execution
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3079172/North-Korean-defence-minister-executed-anti-aircraft-fire-disrespecting-leader-Kim-Jong-dozing-military-events-answering-back.html?ito=social-facebook
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bo_sox48 (5202 DMod(G))
12 May 15 UTC
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Second Quake in Nepal
You all heard the news before. I asked people not to forget, so I'm reminding people today again. There was a second quake this morning of similar magnitude (7.3), killing many, but more importantly right now, people are forced to live communally outdoors as the monsoon season approaches.
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LeinadT (146 D)
15 May 15 UTC
Interesting Aside on the UK Election (or, Deputy PM Nigel Farage)
What would Westminster look like if PR was used?
LeinadT (146 D)
15 May 15 UTC
DISCLAIMER: this is a for-fun thought experiment, and remember that if PR was used in real life, the voting tactics would be much different (actually, the "tactics" would be near non-existent, people would vote for who they like--yeah, I know, novel concept) and thus the results would also be different.

DISCLAIMER 2: I don't advocate a party-list PR system. There are others available, like MMP or STV. They're way better than the FPTP system used in the UK and US (and other countries). But for the purposes of this thought experiment, a simple PR system is assumed.

Using a d'Hondt calculator I found on the internet, I was able to calculate the number of PR seats each party would get in a 650-seat parliament. Here is the list (the seats they have in real life are in brackets):

Tories ---- 244 (331)
Labour --- 201 (232)
UKIP ------- 83 (1)
LibDems -- 52 (8)
SNP -------- 31 (56)
Greens ---- 25 (1)
DUP --------- 3 (8)
Plaid --------- 3 (3)
Sinn Fein --- 3 (4)
UUP (+ind) - 3 (3)
SDLP -------- 1 (3)
Alliance ----- 1 (0)

Overall, it's bad for big parties (Con, Lab), great for smaller parties (LibDem, UKIP, Greens), bad for large regional parties (SNP, DUP), and inconsequential for smaller regional parties (Plaid, UUP, etc.).

As I will always say, it's good for democracy. Whatever you think about these individual parties, it's never a bad thing to see the people's views represented more proportionally, and certain views neither magnified nor suppressed by anomalies in a flawed voting system.

Now, to step off of my soapbox and analyze those numbers: the Tories would, almost undoubtedly, retain power with these numbers.

I'll show my work: even if you added up Labour and all of their possible friends (LibDems, Greens, SNP, Plaid, DUP, Alliance--I'm calling them the "Anti-UKIP Coalition") it's only 317 seats. In fact, even if you added up the Conservatives, LibDems, DUP, UUP, and Alliance in a coalition reminiscent of 2010-15, it's still just 303 votes, of course short of a majority.

Although, realistically, my teaser that Farage would be Deputy PM is also erroneous. The Conservatives would most likely run a minority government, reaching to the center to get LibDem and Labour suppport for some things, and reaching to the right to get UKIP support for other things--like the EU referendum, but Nigel and his buddies wouldn't have influence beyond what the Tories agree to. So nothing too crazy would get passed.

Conclusion: I may have done some harm to my viewpoint that FPTP needs to go by highlighting how well UKIP, a party most of you loath, would've done, so I need to remind you of this: it's a case-by-case deal. In other years, the Greens would have the tremendous result. The point is this: a government that represents the views of the people is better than one that only represents two views (plus a regionalist party) with barely any representation whatsoever for significant minority opinions, such as UKIP and the Greens.

And yes, this would mean more coalitions, but a parliament/congress where members are forced to compromise and create laws multiple ideological groups can get behind sounds a lot better than what you have in Britain, where a party that gets only 30-something percent of the vote has over 50-percent of the seats, and doesn't need to answer to that natural system of checks-and-balances that exists in governments with several large parties.
LeinadT (146 D)
15 May 15 UTC
TL;DR: proportional representation would be great for UKIP, the Greens, and Democracy.
Hellenic Riot (1626 D(G))
15 May 15 UTC
DUP are not part of an "Anti-UKIP coalition". DUP and UUP are on the Tory-side. DUP in particular are further to the right of the Tories.
wjessop (100 DX)
15 May 15 UTC
Really interesting read and great to see!


"I may have done some harm to my viewpoint that FPTP needs to go by highlighting how well UKIP, a party most of you loath, would've done."

Not at all, though I personally disagree with almost all of UKIP's policies and rhetoric, I'd much rather have these views represented fairly and appropriately in parliament so that we can debate and deal with these concerns openly and democratically. I'd much rather we do this than have a situation where 4 million people feel unheard and unrepresented to the point that a baseball bat becomes a more realistic method of change for them than the ballot box.
LeinadT (146 D)
15 May 15 UTC
@Hellenic Riot

Before the election, DUP were willing to support Labour if they were the bigger party. I'm not saying that they *are* part of an anti-UKIP coalition, I was just nicknaming a coalition of centrist and leftist parties in opposition to a UKIP-backed Tory government, in an effort to easily prove that no Labour government could work with those numbers. It was one of the least important sentence fragments in the whole piece.

@wjessop

Good to hear! I disagree with some of UKIP's main stuff, particularly on immigration, but I think that a lot of their more minor policies are for a smaller-government, which is right up my libertarian alley. Similar to Bernie Sanders, I disagree with a good bit of the Greens' politics, yet am all for the additional choice for my left-of-center friends.

But I agree with you agreeing with me: the most important thing is that the views of the people get represented in the legislature. Nearly 1 in 20 voters voted Green, and about 1 in 8 voted UKIP, the fact that each of them only get 1 in 650 in Parliament is farcical.


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mlgswegkek (100 D)
12 May 15 UTC
Leaving a game without missing turns/killing RR's
Does a "quit" or "leave game" button exist? Is that the "cancel" button? If not, would there be a possibility of implementing one?
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ssorenn (0 DX)
13 May 15 UTC
To My Bostonian Internet Friends
June 24th, thinking of being in town--

see inside
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Jeff Kuta (2066 D)
10 May 15 UTC
WTA or PPSC in game header?
Might be nice to see this along with "Anon" etc.
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JamesYanik (548 D)
13 May 15 UTC
East vs West, Modern Diplomacy II Game Idea
Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, VS France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Spain,
36 Hour/Phases, PPSC, Full Press, Anonymous, Public Draw Votes, draw after only East or West is left
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Arminius (1514 D)
13 May 15 UTC
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Let's raise the bar on reliability: a group boycott
I won't be playing any more games with reliability requirement lower than 50% and here's why.
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