What is the most controversial thing you can think of to type in here? Why is it controversial?

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On the current map for the game there are red explosions on fleets in Denmark and the Irish Sea and a yellow star next to fleet Naples. What do they indicate?

Looking through the discussions both in the forum and the games I'm in I noticed that everyone always assumes the person they're addressing is a guy. And since no one I've seen has been corrected on that, it seems reasonable to think the overwhelming majority of players are male. Is this true? Do any girls play this game? I can see it being something like The Three Stooges or barbershops that women just don't understand, but they must be out there.

So does such a beast exist? Any broads out there? If not them why? Do they feel bad about stabbing, or is it just the nature of the Internet?

I just thought it was interesting.

Be interested to see how well travelled we are as a bunch.

In the game "Let's Rule the World", I'm Turkey. Anticipating BOH move to VIE w/ TYR support, or TYR move to VIE with BOH support, I ordered VIE to move to BOH, and for BUD support hold at VIE. I thought that if BOH did indeed move to VIE, VIE would then automatically hold, with BUD support. I guess it doesn't work like that? BOH did indeed (successfully) move to VIE w/ TYR support, so obviously my defense plan didn't work. I have an idea for why it didn't work, but I'd like to hear what other, more experienced players say.

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So, from an earlier thread I got the idea of an interesting variant: All Retreats must disband rather than retreat. (The idea being, the unit is destroyed). This would be quite painful for some :) Would it lead to quicker games? Post here for invite if you have email in your profile, or email me.

below the 10,000 mark now.

After extensive google searches, i cannot find a board gaming club anywhere near where i live (Plymouth, England). I was loooking foward to actually playing diplomacy and other games in real life. Does anyone know a good site for finding such clubs? Has anyone in my area had more success than me?

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Some of the Americans think there are only Americans on here... Is this true?
Add one to your home country, and we'll find out where we are...

After a few dozen replies, I'll bring the top 10 to the top of the list, but leave it alphabetical for now please.

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What is the current line on people with deliberately misleading names. For this I mean names set to imply they are someone else, or indeed something else, such as one account I recently found called 'Civil Disorder Italy' , which you could easily see was wrong if you thought twice about it, but the name seems to me set up to try and trick players into thinking they're playing with a blank in the game, rather than a player who can exploit this misunderstanding

Was thinking and got this notion in my head. A command like the draw and pause commands to leave a game.

Perhaps this would be useful if you're going on a trip and can't organize a sitter in time? It would allow someone to take over without missing the three turns that have to happen in order for someone to c/d.

I'm sure there would have to be some steps to limit its use and stop people from dropping any game they're losing but I think it has its value.

I'm sure people playing inside a game would be much happier if a player quit rather than dropped out and was able to be taken over within hours rather than days.

What do people think?

I've been looking through some of the recent threads (the UN variant one specifically) and an idea came to me. Would anyone disagree with being able to mask your identity in general chat? As in, you click a toggle box and your name comes up as 'Anonymous' or some variant of that.

It would add an extra level of detail to the game and would make diplomacy that much more engaging, as you could villify your opponents while remaining hidden, or you could spread rumours about your allies in preparation for a stab... Of course, it can be used by other players as well, them pretending to be you in order to turn the board in their favour.

It would also mean acting takes a more prominent role, since you could use an enemy's writing style to incriminate them more subtly than would otherwise be possible.

What do you think? Could it work?

There are security ways to get around multi-accounts (e-mail verification, etc), but they all have counters. The net result is escalation. Why not just have random game placement? When the pool of players reaches 21 (or 28, etc), 7 are picked and they start a new game together. This will cut down on a lot of the multi-account madness, since it's a lot harder to get into a game with one of your proxies. The picking can even look at common games and make sure you get fresh opponents each game. Downside would be you'd have to give people more time to post their first turns, since it might take a while to get into a new game, and you'd want to make sure everyone in the game got a proper notification. Sounds reasonable to me. Anyone else got an opinion?

How does this websight pick which people are which powers? I have played I think 6 games, I have been France 4 times, England once and Germany once. Does anyone know if it is random, or what? I am not complaining, just curious.

Called 'Wall Street Crash'

Only 6 to join

After the threads about visited countries and US states, what about a list of territories on the Diplomacy map you have visited?

BlackFire has 2 proxies, Aries and LinkPhoenix. If they are separate entities, they don't behave that way. If you join a game with them, you're probably better off just getting out.

Discuss

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join please

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October 7th is the anniversary of the Battle of Lepanto.
*we now return you to your regular scheduled discussions of multis

Whether you're a portal fan or not, everyone can appreciate a 200 point buy in game. come join me!

http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=6107
PPSC, 24 hours per phase,
and I just finished a bio lab on beets, hence the name =)

i think we may be dealing with some multi-accounting between these people. check their accounts

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5728

There are some folks on a game that I'm playing that have just openly admitted to metagaming. (Friends, joining a game with the intention of remaining allied and taking on everyone else.) Is there any repercussion or punishment for this? Seems clearly against the rules of the site/game...

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5970
500 point pot...

Thanks!

There was a bug at the game http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5875

Constantinople had to be conquered by Russia, and Italy had to take Bulgaria =S

http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5917

Austria and Italy are multi-accounting.
Is there something that can be done about this or what?
It's freakin rediculous.

Oh, and by the way, this is what the chat says, Im england btw.
"Austria: your saying I can't type a paragraph! Bring it on! I am declaring War on you England!
England: God, so easy to tell your playing on 2, if not 3, different accounts.
Italy: Did anybody hear something? Hmm....sounds like it came from an island that is about to sink.
England: Thanks for proving my point further Tapia, I appreciate it."

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TONIGHT WE DINE IN HELL!!!!

the name above ^

i know doesnt get much cooler :):):):)

any help? this game is a lot of fun, but the help page kinda blows

The leagues Group D is in need of a back up player. If anyone wishes to play, could he respond here and unhide his email address or email me directly. Thank you.

Discuss here....

I was thinking, would anyone join a 700-buy in game?
It would be WTA of course, to add to the Excitement. Whoever wins will immediately jump to top ten. Unless if he's Rait....hey here is your golden opportunity to reclaim the Throne!

If I can get 6 applications here I'll open the game. It'll be called: 4900
No CD's please...it ruins the fun, and makes you lose most of your fortune.

I think it would be interesting to be able to post some polls, I know no one wants to implement the code for that here, but maybe someone knows a linkable site where members could setup a poll?

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Watch the match...
As soon as Italy get into civil disorder, a new account is created, (ok, happens every time), the new account joins into a game on a loosing position (can also happen sometimes). Did i mentioned the game is password protected? Oh, and he logged out one minute after the other... suspicious... And why the f**k should he support an enemy faction who just took his last point?

Looks like cheating to me...

Hey everyone, I'm 1 800 sniffy and I've decided to post a topic about an issue with the rules. So me and my friend Bryce are in the same history class and our teacher should us this game called Diplomacy. Every day since then we were assigned into groups of 3 and put into countries for the game. Bryce and I ( if you are dying to know my name it is Tyler) found this game interesting and wanted to play more so we looked it up on the internet and found this site. We made a few games and joined some other peoples games and made an alliance and then people started getting angry and calling us multi-accounters. So i looked it up in the rules and "multi-accounting" is illegal but nowhere does it say you can't play with friends. If you are going to get mad at people for playing with friends then put a rule up that is against that and don't just blindly accuse them of being something they are not.

Hi All

I'm not sure if I've got the wrong idea on this but bare with me. If a unit support holds another unit, but the unit *receiving* the support issues a move order, can the unit *receiving* the support hold still receive its support if its move fails ( due to standoff)

Not that I want to go into one, but what happens if I accidentally go into one and how to try to avoid doing so.

Is it correct that the only way I can go into a CD is by leaving all my orders on hold and not finalising? Also, if I do go into CD, can I continue to play provided I take action before the power has been taken over?

I didn't see this in the todo list - I appologize in advance if I missed it.

it's Autumn and a player with 2 SCs just lost them both - next phase is retreats, There are 2 valid retreats so player goes to them - this phase is ok, because if one retreat is another SC, then he's still in.

In the event that he still has 0 SCs after the fall retreat, because none of his retreats were SCs, then he is dead ... period. But he still has to go through the shame of admitting he's dead to the game's logic by actually finilizing his unit placement turn: "Destroy here, Destroy there". And the other players have to wait the entire phase, when it's really something that logic can dictate at that point.

Thoughts? Criticisms?

Concept goes something like this..... every time a country acquires a new SC, they must seek recognition of their newly acquired territory from the international community. If a majority do not vote in favour then you are not allowed to build an additional unit.

Sorry if there's some rule that I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it should be letting me place an army in Greece in this situation. I took a screenshot, which is below. Is this a bug or is there a rule I'm unaware of?

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9601/diploerroraq2.jpg

Say Munich support holds Berlin and Silesia support holds Munich
If Burgundy attacks Munich, does the support hold on Berlin cancel?

i havne't implemented my varient yet, but once i get the chance i will.

it is based on the normal map, but with the supply centres inverted:
http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~orathaic/dip_inverse.gif

this makes for a much stronger italy, weaker turkey, and a difficult relationship between russia, germany, and austria...

Thanks to our good friend and leader of the free world, Robert Mugabe.
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/UnNews:Robert_Mugabe_bails_out_world_financial_system_out-of-pocket

In game Deux Au Machina, http://www.phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=5985, we have been stuck on pause for several days now. Please either boot the one player who refuses to unpause, or end the game and return everyone's points. Thanks.

jdk is apparently not returning, but we are paused waiting for him to /unpause the game. Since the game cannot proceed, he can't become a CD and replaced as a CDing player who could /unpause the game.

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