I'm sorry about being CD in our prosperous game against Italy and Turkey... I was travelling and it took me a while to get the internet up. I am sad to lose such a strong position against a weak enemy and one on holiday! Good luck... and beware France!

I see the deletion as an infringement of our freedom of speech. As of the time I left my polls thread, the discussion was rational and I see no reason to terminate it. If people are reluctant to accept the unpopularity of the US government, they could just choose not to open the thread.

Kestas, if you want to keep politics out of pHpDiplomacy, that's fine, but please be consistent in your actions and do the same to threads like " Vote for McCain or we're all doomed." Otherwise, you are in effect discriminating against those who are politically incorrect, i.e., the vast majority of us who dislike America for a reason.

I suggest that all responses containing abusive language be deleted, while the rest of the thread be restored. Or course, Kestas, you have the convenient option of deleting my account and continue with your political persecution, though by doing so you are murdering the voice of conscience on pHpDiplomacy.

I have a question about how a player in civil disorder is handled. Are all their moves set to hold? (so if I'm attacking someone in civil disorder, I need to move with at least one support to take the territory?) And can I successfully support hold a unit that belongs to a country in civil disorder?

This has happened to me a couple times and I was wondering if its been a problem for any one else.
A country is CD and I make my moves with that in mind only to find out that between me finalizing and the stat of the next turn, someone has joined the game. I think its great that people can join late, but could there be some form of notification, because this has messed up my moves on several occasions.
BTW, Kestas, you've done a great job-thanks!

Character? Mine is Dogmatix:-) reminds me of my dog, canute.:-)

Just joined diplomacy. Big fan of pbm games and i was wondering if there are any tips that any one out there can give me? Thanks.

Would your strategies change? I'm thinking this would be an interesting variant (and probably has already been tried). What changes would you make? The game would be completely different for some countries.

2 Italian Fleets? Turkish fleet in Smyrna? 3 Austrian Armies? Fleet at St Pete North Coast? German fleet in Berlin for support into Sweden first year?

Russia and Turkey could talk before hand and both agree on Armies on the Black Sea.

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Generic Title Autumn 1903, Unit-placing
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3506&msgCountry=Italy
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Is it possible to move a fleet from Apu to tunis ? That's what Italy did in the previous turn when you see the map.
Bug in map or incorrect/correct move ?
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relatively new to this site, i am glad to see people on here, with intellect, passion, thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Yes... There are the ignorant too, however all in all, this is a fantastic site. A great game to play, and even a forum for chat amongst its participants. Who needs facebook?! Well done KESTAS!

Why not find something else to talk about? Are these anti-american threads supposed to make me hate America, or hate loud-mouthed, obsessive anti-americans?

The Christian bible says the anti christ will promise peace but deliver war. McCain however is promising war which means he can't be the anti christ. A vote for McCain is a vote for 8 more years without an armageddon. What has Clinton or Obama got to offer.

Just had a thought today while entering some orders. I thought it would be beneficial to have 2 maps when entering orders. 1 with what happened last move with all the arrows. Another one under it (read: some where) with what your next move will look like.

Simply because once you start having a couple of units i start to loose track of visualizing all my moves. Does anyone have any thoughts about this?

wow, i saw them last friday in concert as part of their "snakes and arrows" tour and they were fantastic! my favorite song of the nigh was "mission". just beautiful.

try to watch it in youtube by writing "rush puerto rico".

if they come to your town, go see them! great!

According to the help files:

"The amount of points you get depends on how many units you have at the end. If you have the 18 units needed to win you'll get most of the points, but if you have more units than you started with at the end you'll still win something. If you get defeated, or have to leave the game, then all the points you bet are lost."

However, what happens if you survive a game, but you have less units than when you started out? For example if I was Russia, but I get only 3 units when the game is over, how many points to I get?

Hey all, I sent a message to kestas_j_k through sourceforge and there is no contact information available. I'd like to work on this diplomacy system instead of starting from scratch.l

I know that at this point many people are getting annoyed and offended with the heavily political discussions taking place on this message board. It is rarely avoidable when you make political comments that you don't find people who disagree with you and when it comes to more serious international conflicts the internet is a place where people from very different up-bringing often clash.

The most important point I must make is that people choose to argue over these points for their own enjoyment - It is of course your choice whether or not to take part in the discussions. It is also an individual persons choice whether or not they take points brought up in a debate personally. The educational value of each debate is of course different depending on the individual but I know that many of the issues brought up have been able to at least open the minds of those involved to a degree.

The greatest thing about the debates is that they are time spent on the site, taking time to make political posts on the forum may give you the chance to hop back and forth from a game and develop a deeper level of actual ingame diplomacy when other players are online at the same time.

Anyways, I personally think that the debates should definitely continue to occur. The more personal attacks should be moderated and the people involved should try not to take political conflicts personally.

It might be a good idea to refrain from heated topics such as real life politics (as opposed to in game politics) and religion.
This is supposed to be fun.
Enough tears are spilt over being back-stabbed in the game. :)

I've heard a lot of people complaining about getting Austria, so I figured I'd write a little bit about how to open with the Dual Monarchy. As a 25% Hungarian, I am uniquely qualified here!

Does attacking a fleet that is convoying disrupt the convoy? If it does then there is an error in this game in the North sea.
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3506

I will be planning to start a 102 pot WTA Press Game
Please post here if you are interested and I will email you the password.
If your emails are hidden, be sure that when I get the final list, give me a mail in prior so that I can give you a reply.

Following Reuters, this will be called Agence France-Presse

want a new game, play at "deception"

I keep having italy since 3 games, I like to change.

kestas-

in game "Yum yums-2", (http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3271), i just took over turkey, and the game is in the unit-placing phase. however, i dont have any builds/disbands, and the game is stuck there. please help!

Low stakes game.

Please join my game if you:
a) actually talk to people during the game
b) don't abandon games
c) preferably if you check the site 3-4 times a day. :)

* snacks not included

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=3446

I have no retreats, but I'm the only player 'yet to move'.

Stereotype the person who posts above you. Don't forget to be as cruel as possible! Also, please don't argue the stereotype someone assigns to you.

Here is an interesting variant I came across not too long ago, involving a team of two, and five individual players:

The game Allied Warfare (3011) has ended with the victory of Turkey-England-Russia. Austria-Italy were destroyed and France-Germany have capitulated.

We now request that the game is drawn. Please post your confirmations.

Often in games, especially lower pot games i keep coming across players who don't engage in any diplomacy at all. how do they expect to win?
Nearly always they are attacked and destroyed or severely crippled and hover around at the edges. They don't send in early messages of goodwill and misdirection, they don't reply and even if there exits a situation where we could work together they don't initiate any conversation. It's like they are playing a no press game on their own. I understand that some players when they plan to attack somebody they don't send any messages but the initial negotiations in the first 24 hours are crucial. If you are Germany and england says "hello' and "lets work together" and France doesn't even reply to your first message ...well isn't that France basically just putting his hand up and saying "hey guys why don't you unite and attack me" ?
why would people play this way ?
1. playing too many games at once ?
2.lack of awareness that the diplomacy function is crucial to winning (ie playing it like you might play chess) ?
are there any other reasons?