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Victorious (768

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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Winter Gunboat Tournament, the x-files has ended

gameID=74660
gameID=74661
gameID=74662

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Tom Bombadil (4023

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03 Mar 12 UTC

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The Return of Tom Bombadil!

I'm returning after a little over a month off from games. School has died down a bit as I've just finished midterms, and what better way to spend spring break than getting my Diplomacy kick going again. Starting 2 games, details inside.

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Glorious93 (901

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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World Diplomacy IX

So many territories, so many players... it scares me. I've only ever played the 'traditional' diplomacy but this variant looks quite interesting. How does it compare to the classic game? What tactics are used?

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07 Mar 12 UTC

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Prevelance of the various alliances

WT vs. CPA vs. Juggernaut

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07 Mar 12 UTC

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Why is the Rum always gone - take 2

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=82534

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President Eden (2750

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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The Lepanto, "Sup Turkey I'm in your EMS by Autumn 01" edition

So if A-I are willing to do shit as tight as the Key Lepanto, why not this much safer continuation?

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2ndWhiteLine (2601

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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Live Game Tonight

See below.

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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Anonymous No Message Games

If you play an anonymous no messaging game is it OK to liaise and share attacks/supports with your mates?
If it is acceptable I won't report it but it does spoil the game.
Can one of the 'experts' please clarify this for me please

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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GB WTA LIVE-3 EOG

gameID=82494 Sorry about the wait, I was hoping France would let Italy get knocked out.

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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O GR, GR, wherefore art thou, GR

Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love...

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KiNg Of DiPlOmAcY (270

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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The Gunboats...

Well, we all know what gunboats are: the game Diplomacy WITHOUT Diplomacy.

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President Eden (2750

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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URGENT GAME TEST NEEDED

I think I might have accidentally stumbled upon a degenerate means to circumvent public press. I'm not in a public press game atm so I can't check. Could a player who is in the game please PM me asap?

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04 Mar 12 UTC

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would you ever?

a question at a meta game level

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06 Mar 12 UTC

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Good Streategy?

So....if you see this....how will YOU react???

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04 Mar 12 UTC

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Does anyone else hate the interface?

I'm new to this site, and I truly hate the way the board is set up. It is impossible to distinguish between units, and the arrows are confusing as much as they are beneficial.

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rokakoma (19138

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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Patio Lanterns - EOG

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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Austrian turkish alliances

Can anyone point me at a successful example game for an austrian turkish alliance? im more curious about game long alliances rather than holding a line to force a draw. can it be done?

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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Songs of the 90s

Feeling nostalgic. Post your suggestions inside.

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President Eden (2750

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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bolshoi:

http://crudehumor.webs.com/photos/mcdonalds_fail-12853.jpg

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03 Mar 12 UTC

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who is KiNg Of DiPlOmAcY?

lol
is he knew?

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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[MARCH] NYC Face-to-face Diplomacy Games

Monthly Post for NYC Face-to-face Dip games. See below.

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mongoose998 (294

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03 Mar 12 UTC

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pick your countries option

is there any chance this could get implemented? a little scroll box that says "Country assignment" then 'Random' or "Choose"

Putin33 (111 )
03 Mar 12 UTC

No.

KiNg Of DiPlOmAcY (270 )
03 Mar 12 UTC

Hope so.

Octavious (2701 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

All it would achieve are countless games waiting for someone to be Austria or Italy, which would most likely get taken by noobs who don't know what they're doing, which would mean really poor games.

Random is the best way by far.

bolshoi (0 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

i don't think random is the best way.
best way is keep a list of which countries each player has played, then try to optimize so everybody plays every country equally, as much as is practical.

dubmdell (556 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

That is the current system. You are randomly place with a tendency away from recently played countries.

The only benefit to selecting one's own country is a series of games between seven players who each take each country once.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

I'm in favor of the random system, as much as I like Turkey and England =P

mongoose998 (294 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

well Octavious, you will not have to join any of those games....
dubmdell, what if a player wants to test a new opening or a new relationship?

Yellowjacket (835 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

More retardation from bolshoi. Well spoken.

bolshoi (0 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

yeah i'm not sure if a slight tendency away from recent countries is good enough. i want the decision to be based primarily on making people play every country equally. then maybe if there's a tie, go to randomness (just to resolve the ties). yellow just doesn't appreciate good ideas.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

There are some players that actually prefer Austria or Italy. If you could find people to willingly play for every country, you could have a nice variant. Not a bad idea, but the problem is finding people who actually want to play as Austria or Italy and will actually be good.

NikeFlash (140 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Mabey not, but at least he can call a spade a spade when it comes to you bolshoi. Most of your ideas are indeed "retarded"

Scmoo472 (1933 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

The problem with this is no one will pick Italy/Austria.. as said above, and there will be countless new games of people picking what they want, and just praying someone picks Italy/Austria.
It is fine as is, and this has been proposed many many many many.. (hold on a second, need to breathe) many many times before.

The Czech (39715 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

I prefer Austria over Russia any day.

DipperDon (6457 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Agreed with The Czech. Many experienced players do extremely well playing Austria, Scmoo.

President Eden (2750 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Austria is one of my favorites... as is Italy...

President Eden (2750 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

shit, I'd love it. I would be that guy who trolls the games looking for Italy openings just to go try out experimental new shit with them to see if someone can make the poor fella viable

The Czech (39715 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Also, as far as being randomized..I know there is a formula the CPU uses, but it has flaws if you play live games and haven't finished them yet. I drew Turkey 3 times in a row on one day and Austria 4 times in a row the next. eh

Danaman (1666 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Is this not a mute point anyway. If you want to play variants then play on vdiplomacy, if you want to play the proper game play here?

Haert (234 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

I'm not sure how it exactly works, but droidippy works by a preference system, you rank which power you'd like to play and based on your choices and those of the other players, it assigns you a country. I like the system here, but that's another option.

bolshoi (0 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

just alter the bets. if the bet is 30 allow italy to put in 28 and austria 29. france can pay 32 or something. try that for a while, see which country is the most popular/least popular. then adjust the bet amounts accordingly till it's about balanced. you would also have to adjust ghost ratings for it though, since some particularly douchy only care about those, which aren't based on points.

The Czech (39715 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

That's moot point unless you are muting the discussion.

Gobbledydook (1389 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Italy just sucks in my opinion, you get stabbed before you get to any respectable size whomever you choose to tackle first.
Austria is nice if you get a strong opening. Strong opening = very powerful Austria. Weak opening = prepare for early dinner.

cspieker (18223 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

What would be cool to go with the betting system you have here is if people could put their preference list in, and you can ante anything you want (above a stated minimum). Then the countries are assigned from the preference lists in order of the antes.

Another possibility is you could assign a percent of your ante to each country, and the highest bid for a particular country gets that one.

Probably sort of hard to code though!

bolshoi (0 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

yeah or you could do it like ebay. particularly for live games. people all make bets on the country they want, and someone can come in and outbid you to steal your spot. then whoever's in the lead when teh game starts get to play. haha.

Caballo Blanco (1005 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

Not sure it could be practically implemented but I do like the idea of the preference system with or without bets. For example the game would be a 50 dp bet (meaning you have to put in at least 50

pre country) but then you could silently place other amounts on each say 60 for France, and 80 for Russia etc... Then once the game starts whoever bid the highest for any country would get that and so on.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

@ Danaman

There are some variants on here. This site isn't just "the proper game". We've got three different maps, gunboat and world chat, and WTA or PPSC.

SacredDigits (102 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

I love playing Austria, it's my favorite country.

Fasces349 (0 )
04 Mar 12 UTC

the coding is possible, its already been implemented at vdip, webdips sister site...

Putin33 (111 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

Suck it up and play what country you are given. If you can only play as certain countries, you fail as a diplomacy player.

Dharmaton (2398 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

In the Forum, a second series of navigation arrows.
(...helps when you open a long stream for no need to scroll back up.)

ezpickins (113 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

Play on Vdip if you wish to choose your countries, Oli has implemented a nice little feature there along with quite a few others.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

I'm partial to England, personally. The islands of Great Britain are as defensible in Diplomacy as they are in real life, and you have the most room for expansion at the beginning of the game.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

But I'd settle for Turkey for similar reasons. Easily defended and early-game opportunity.

bolshoi (0 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

england > russia > france > italy > turkey > germany > austria. i just hate having more than 2 countries able to invade me at any one time. i guess i would rank turkey higher, but every game i've played as turkey, russia and austria formed a half-alliance to take me out. or austria/italy or something. not sure why. i guess invading turkey is well worth it for people, so they try it early on.

Gunfighter06 (224 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

I think the best stab in the game is when Turkey stabs a strong Russia in the middle of a juggernaut.

mongoose998 (294 )
05 Mar 12 UTC

@cspieker: look at this variant from vdip, the same idea:http://vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=35

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02 Mar 12 UTC

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Need some advice on English

I'm currently working on an English translation of an upcoming online role-playing collectible card game taking place in a complex sci-fi setting (I'll make some promo when its launch will be imminent, I believe some of you will appreciate the setting or artworks even if CCGs are not your cup of tea).

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Thucydides (864

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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ADVERTlSE YOUR LIVE GAMES HERE

Utilize this thread by posting new live games here and only here.

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04 Mar 12 UTC

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i am getting bored

after a crushing defeat in my last live game, and my wasting-time-online phase coming to an end, should i completely leave this website? please voice opinions below. and yes, i know this will be slightly skewed since most of the people who would vote yes have already muted me so won't see this.

oh... but i guess i might make my rankings first... uh. i wanted to do that... well we'll see.

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President Eden (2750

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04 Mar 12 UTC

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GUYS WHY HAVE WE NOT INVADED THE DIPLOMACY REDDIT YET

http://www.reddit.com/r/diplomacy

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Electrosexual (212

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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Begginers

Starting a game in like ten minutes, for all you begginers like me. Let's have a good game and learn together.

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02 Mar 12 UTC

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whos kestas is he new

???

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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The Subject of Pausing a Game.

Should there be ways to unpause/pause a game, if atleast a majority of the players agree to unpause/pause the game? If not, please provide an alternative.

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05 Mar 12 UTC

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For those of you in Patio Lanterns: EOG

Can everyone who was in http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=82354#gamePanel please post their EOG statements and why they did certain moves. thank you. I'll put mine up eventually

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