All 4 remaining players agree to a draw on game: http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5162.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/30/rnc.protest/index.html

what do the crosses and checks mean by peoples names?

I love Meat Loaf! The singer. This has nothing to do with Diplomacy, but I'm curious.

There are two scenarios. One is that the turn has ended with no moves from your ally. The other is the phase is about to expire and your ally hasn't logged in to submit moves. WHat do you do?

A few of my friends that I play FTF with and I started a game, but we need a couple more people. Is anyone interested? No metagaming--promise.

The game is in my profile. Password: cipe

Hi Kestas,
Can you please put this game on hold for about 4 days?
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=4544
We have been battling hard for many years and now one player has had a problem submitting orders.
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Maybe not for the normal Diplomacy points, but for something else. I don't know I think the idea is cool though. Betting on who you think will win. Too complicated and unecessary to incorporate as a feature though, I wager. I mean, I bet. I mean, I reckon. Lol how punny.

I guess this question is for Kestas. I'm playing as England in the game "Happieness" and I think there might have been an error. I'm pretty sure one of my orders was a support hold from the English Channel to the Mid-Atlantic but it's not showing up on the post-season map. Is there a way to confirm what my orders were? Because I'm pretty sure my fleet in the Mid should have been able to withstand the attack with its support in the Channel.

hey, i'm totally new to the game and there are some questions the tutorial left unanswered. I'd appreciate if someone could help.

1. Support Move. As I got it, the supporting unit has to be in an adjacent territory to the one where the supported unit starts its move. It does not matter if its adjacent to the target of the move. There is no point to move into a territory with two armies (from different sides etc). All of it correct?

2. Convoy. How does this work? The order refers to a sea territory I assume? Can I order an army to travel over that territory then? Does the territory have to be empty?

3. Move. What happens if two opposing armies move to the same territory? Do both get destroyed or do they just stand and stare at each other? What if there is a defending unit in this scenario(assuming both attacks are supported and would normally win the encounter)?

4. Retreat. When exactly does this occur and how does it work?

Is there a link to a more complex introduction or something?

Thanks in advance

I recently played my first diplomacy game online. Could someone please help me with Diplomacy etiquette? Did I back stab another player on my second move?

90 to join. PPSC game.

Please join :)

We are requesting a draw in awesome-2

The others will set theirs messages.

Thanks

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5426

I chose to destroy the fleet at the adriatic sea, not the one in Greece!
Is there any way I can change it?

Group D is missing responces from Jaco and Shishuren
Group E is missing responces from alamothe, Ivo_Ivanov and Piazza.

Please resond within 24 hours or I shall give people on the waiting list your places.

Thank you.

To get a better sense of this question, you may want to refer to game 5300 (Turkey and Italy), Spring of 1907.

Turkey 'requested' that Italy assist in the convoy of a unit from Rome to Greece. Italy was located in the Tyrrhenian Sea at the time. Italy 'agreed'. But given the two nations' history during the game, Italy would have much rather slit Turkey's throat (or its own) rather than be of assistance.

Why is it not possible for Italy to agree to the convoy, but rather than actually sailing to the agreed upon destination to hand over the troops within her holds to the Turkish fleet in the Ionian, to either drop the Turkish troops over the side into Davey Jones' Locker, or at least strand them elsewhere (so long as this elsewhere were somewere that Italy could readily access)?

The way the game is set up, because army being convoyed defines the final destination, rather than all the intermediate steps to get it to its final destination. This could have implications in that a convoy could fail at any stage. Were a convoy to fail near the tail end of a multi step convoy, the forces in the fleet's hold could disembark at any unoccupied, readily accessible territory closer to the final destination, rather than remaining at its point of origin.

In the above example, Turkey defined the move of Rome to Greece via convoy, and the only possible monkey wrench open to the Italians was to fail to show up for the pick up. Which is what the Italians elected to do.

What happens if two different players attempt to a single unit to the same place? Does it simply fail (or do they disband), or if one player has an option to retreat elsewhere, will it simply move their unit to the other place?

One of the underlining things in the current vogue of PbEMail game systems like this one is that players hide their identities as a matter of course. Being an old timer I find this rather odd. One of the really attractive aspects of the Diplomacy hobby was the social side of things. However, the main websites seems to attract people who are rather uptight about using their real name or having people know who they are. It is like playing the game anonymously and it loses so much of the charm and appeal of the game.
After all the key to a well played game of Diplomacy is the interaction between the people around the board not the faceless/anonymous handles or aliases of people.
Maybe it is a generational issue, and as a grandfather from the hobby's start I grew in the hobby where the idea that you were playing under a hidden name was not only strange but was normally against all the house rules of the zines/GM's that hosted the games. Yet people here seem to relish the anonymous aspect and become down right paranoid when you ask the simplest and oldest social question: Hi, I am ---- who are you?

If you had to play under your own name, how many would refuse to play?
Would playing under your own name make a major difference in the drop out rate here which seems to be a real major problem?

there should be airplane unit that can move two time on a turn

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5590

If you put in orders put do not finalize when the deadline comes will your orders be accepted or does finalize really mean to submit?

When is the tally of supply centres under the control of a country updated?

If one refers to game 5412, after the moves have been successfuly adjudicated but prior to the builds, the tally of SCs under controlled by each country does not add up to what it should be.

Example - Italy has four SCs, but only three are reflected.
Austria-Hungary has seven SCs, but only six are reflected.

Are the tally's only updated once the builds have been finalized, and if so, why aren't the tallies adjusted as soon as it is clear that a SC is now under a nation's control?

I just made a private game and I usually give the given link to people I want to join. For some reason, the link isn't complete. I think it's missing the www.phpdiplomacy.net part and nobody can join it. Is this a new feature or an error?

Hello. Kestas,
ID5174, I have 3 build in this term, Army build in Paris, Army build in Mar, and Fleet build in Blast. but only one build in Paris. Can you build up back to me please. The order was very clear.Please.

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Add one or delete one :)

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CONGRATULATIONS to Emily Lau, Audrey Eu and Leung Kwok-hung!
the democrats won 23 of the 30 seats. im proud of you hongkong!

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is anyone interested in a 100+ wta game?

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