I think I'm joining the party who claims that there should be no secondary objectives (like ensuring Yourself a place within the first 3 or similar) in games besides winning the game. I find it pretty unbelievable that 3! corner countries could cooperate against the rest of the countries for 1,5 decades without making a single move against each-other. Not trying to be a sour loser, but this is really amazing. I will comment further after the game is finished, but I simply had to burst out the emotion.

I seem to have been caught one of the games that disappeared. I signed on to a 100pt game. That game disappeared and so I have no points. Do I get reset to 100 as some point?

Well. I heard enough. All this people: Wooble, mightyrobot, Anlari, TimuraKhan, The Mahatma, Raga, El_Perro_Artero, dangermouse, Thucydides, jesuschrist, haer, Locke, gokhan1735, aoe3rules, think different than me. They are clearlly more than the people who agreed with me. So it is time to step aside.I will finish my games, but I will not answer to any press. Bye bye.

I'm not sure how to successfully support a convoy. FOR EXAMPLE

(this is completely fabricated)
Germany wants to convoy from Kiel to Livonia
Austrian Army in Warsaw agrees to support.

How would austria designate the order to support Germany's convoyed unit?

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2136

This finalizes that the last three survivors of game six of the Grand Festive Tournament are: Otto Von Bismark, thewonderllama, and Darwyn.

Hey guys, I just made a new game, so come join it. The cost is only 7 pts.

Error triggered: An assertion, $this->mode != DIPLOMACY or (count($this->USERMEMBERSHIPS) == 7 and count($this->MEMBERSHIPS) == 7), was not met as required..

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

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Anyone else gotten this error before when trying to view one of your games, or know what happened? Hopefully it doesn't last too long. =/

I can't open the games page.
Kestas, please help!!!

OK, for some reason, the Holiday Season puts me in a Sci-Fi mood. Since we've done the whole "Greatest Diplomacy player" thing, and basically drew between Bismark, Alexander, and Ghengis Khah (still think Alexander should have won), let's do Sci-Fi: if you want, of course.

There will be three heats- a Trek Heat, a Wars heat, and then, the winners of each heat will move on, and then we'll combine the two lists, figure out who got the 3rd most votes, then 4th, etc, until we have 7 players for the final.

So, in the Trek heat we have:

Kirk
Spock
Picard
Data
Sisko
Worf
Janeway
Khan (Gotta do it: KKKKKHHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!)

In the Wars heat:

Anakin/Vader
Luke
Padme
Leia
Yoda
Palpatine
Obi-Wan

Sorry if your favorite didn't make the list................

Shalom, Live long and prosper, and May the Force be with you!

(Wow- I AM a huge nerd- ah well.)

Or is it Smart Jason?

Or yet a new fun player on the harrass-the-phpdip-community scene?!?!

the year is finalizing and the awards has come in so we can get an idea of who's who in 2007.

best dip playing site; stabbeurfou.org

best dip forum; phpdiplomacy

best extra feautures in a dip site; bounced

best dip graphic; php diplomacy

new player of the year; pitirre

best game of the year; paranoid eyes

best stabber of the year; pitirre (with a 5 consecutive stabs to the same player)

best country to play in this year; france

and the best dip player of the year ; rait

thank very much for the nominees and better luck next year, 2008...and keep lying, backstabbing and make older people cry.

All alliances must end some time. (DEAR ALLIES: Sometimes that's in the last move of the game, and it will totally be your choice, and you'll beat me, honest, now just do what I tell you.)

Please join everyone!

What's to do when this happens ?

For some reason my fleet in sc of Bul moving to Aeg can't retreat to Greece after bouncing in Aeg. What can be done to fix this?

death

hoho wait what

Kestas, please check this game - http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2543 (globaldomin). Thank you.

The players are Putin, Tsar, Comrade and Spetznatz. I am currently playing in Fast Players in which I was informed by these players that they are allied because they all know each other in "real life", go to the same high school and participate in a model UN together. Pre game alliances make for boring and predictable games. Fcuk that shit. As I mulled over whether to abandon the game on principle I began to suspect these players were the same person. A scan of their games shows a pattern of playing together. They mysteriously log on within minutes of each other in quick succesion year after year. When I gave these players a heads up of an outing on the forum, they all responded with 1 minute. If not the same player, their level of collusion is troubling. It brings no fun to the game played this way. Kestas, I am asking if you could please investigate and shut down this game.
i.e. Fast Players Only Game ID #2516 http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2516

What are the rules on self-dislodgement?

On the game "Isaac newton" Anlari is acusing me (and Ssabia). He is suspicious because Russia (Ssabia) is attacking Germany (Anlari) after Germany was keeping Russia out of sweden from the beggining.
In the first game I won, Ssabia finished 2nd. Despite the fact that ssabia and I had won games on our own, when we play a game together there is always a smart ass acusing us of metagame (and some other stupid who believe this) . And that leave us with no choice of allies, and therefore, we must work together.
Please, analize the case end post your opinion. If enough people think I am guilty of metagame, I will quit this game.

In the game Turquoise Days -- http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2423 -- Turkey has just retreated from the Norther coast of Bulgaria to Greece. Is this a known bug?

Please vote here YES or NO if you agree with this suggested changes:

1) Implementation of some sort of ip-verification-system (to stop multiaccounters)
2) Anonymous games. (to stop the false acussations)
3) Winner takes all points (no points for 2nd place) and in case of draw the points are divided equally between the drawers.

Please, do not discuss here (use the other post).
3)

Hello, could someone please help me? I am starting my 1st game. How are negotiations usually done? By e-mail?

Join my game, Blitzkrieg. The pot is 50 points

Recently, since I got a few points back, I opened/joined a 100+ point games, but the problem is, not enough people is joining. I have been opening a few in a row but still no one is joining. Is using your points really that hard. There must quite a lot of people that has more than 100+ points...

I created a game named "一一一". Welcome to join it. : )
(GMT+8)

in this game http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2449 i notice strange moves of italy and france, i notived that they finalize and login at the same time, i noticed they joined phpdiplomacy 13 and 14 dec..
obviously they are allied in the game...

Hello. I saw enough games ruined by characters like Anlari. To stop this desease, I suggest 3 changes to this website:

1) The hardest to accomplish. We need some sort of ip-verication-system to stop the multi-accounters (or to make the job hardest for them)

2) This is very simple. The games should be ANONYMOUS. That means, none knows the identity of the other players until the game is finished. That way you stop the "Anlari" behaivior ("XXX is metagaming!!! look at game YYY!!! Do not ally with him!!! etc etc)

3) This one is simple too. Lets bring back to life the true spirit of the game. On the Diplomacy Rulebook (4th Edition (C) 2000 Hasbro) is writted: "As soon as one Great Power controls 18 supply centers, it is considered to have gained control of Europe. The player representing that Great Power is the winner. However, players can end the game by agreement before a winner is determined. In that case, all players who still have pieces on the board share equally in a draw". If we apply this to the point sistem: a) the rulebook says there is only 1 winner, so the winner takes all the points (no points for 2nd place). b) if a draw is declared, the poins are divided equally between the players who survived (no matter how many units).

Please, discuss here and please vote YES or NO (to the suggested changes) in the other post.

you banned that account for multi-accounting, right?
Since I've turned over a new leaf please set my email to that one.
This current email of mine is nonexistent.

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gid=2216

Between Dant818 and myself. I'll let him give the final word