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Darshevania (1493 D)
01 Nov 16 UTC
Need to find replacement for my game
I can no longer commit to the game "Can we do this?". Anyone want to take over for me?
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a bug I suppose
Hi, my account has been drained of points, and is there a way to restore them?
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Anon (?? D)
25 Oct 16 UTC
advertising new game
good ol' map, vanilla gunboat.
http://www.vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=28538
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marze1992 (1257 D)
23 Oct 16 UTC
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If i know someone in real life
If I know someone in real life and I wanna play with him in a 1vs1 game is against game's rules? What if we join the same game with more than 2 players?
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The Ambassador (1948 D (B))
21 Oct 16 UTC
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2012 WebDip World Cup championship podcast interview
You're probably familiar with this mammoth effort culminating in 104 years of gampeplay (http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=93086) - now you can hear Goldfinger, Leif and JECE's take in our podcast interview at DiplomacyGames.com, iTunes and Stiticher. Enjoy!
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Ezio (1057 D)
16 Oct 16 UTC
1v1 game analysis
I played a 1v1 game yesterday but the other player had to leave before the game was over. I would appreciate it if someone could explain how they thought the game would go and what good moves/mistakes each player made. I'm new to 1v1 and am trying to get better
Thanks
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KingCyrus (1258 D)
19 Oct 16 UTC
American Conflict
Always wanted to try this variant... anybody in???
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=28459
Full press, small bet.
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TheatreVarus (874 D)
24 Aug 16 UTC
Thoughts on improving Rinascimento
Rinascimento is a horribly unbalanced variant. While I realise it is set in a historical setting and the powers at the time were not of the same strength, it is virtually unplayable for several of the smaller factions.
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Ikaneko (832 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
I'm making a new variant to rival Heptarchy. What do you think?
http://imgur.com/TwmZL6H

What do you all think?
GOD (1850 D Mod (B))
08 Oct 16 UTC
France looks too strong...no rivals and lots of SCs to grab
Ikaneko (832 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
Should I remove the sea territory surrounding London?
faded box (1101 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
Does south grate Britain (white) player also have land in Norway?
faded box (1101 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
And all the island or are those just not colored yet
Ikaneko (832 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
They don't have Norway, but they do have the Scilly Islands (The islands to their main bit of territory).
faded box (1101 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
I like the idea with the addition of France but (my opinion) it looks unbalanced. There isn't enough territory's to move in and out of between the powers.
Ikaneko (832 D)
08 Oct 16 UTC
What would you recommend then? Mote territories?
faded box (1101 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
Mote. Was that intended as sarcasm.
faded box (1101 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
but either way, yes. More territorys on land, mainly Wales, Anglia and cornubia area. It dosnt look fair. Might play fair with diplomatic neighbors and preknowledge of boards flow and out comes.
Moving a couple SC could do the trick to. Cornubia (white) will have hard time.
Ikaneko (832 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
OK. Mote was a typo. Thanks for the feedback! You'll be seeing a revised edition shortly. I might test it by holding a few gunboat games with my friends and then analyse the outcomes.
Chumbles (1380 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
2 quick comments: It's not clear whether one of those sea areas connects with Pembrokeshire or not; and please do NOT keep that abomination of a territory that looks like a Northants which has rudely stuck part of its anatomy between Suffolk and Norfolk - it's never existed and doesn't serve any useful purpose IMO
Ikaneko (832 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
Here's my first round of corrections. What do you think?

http://imgur.com/wqfgGaf
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
09 Oct 16 UTC
Haven't looked over it in terms of balance yet, but one important thing in variants - avoid 4-way intersections or things that look like 4-way intersections. Ancient Med gets away with it by specifying very clearly in the rules what the intersections mean, but in general it's good practice not to use them.

I've circled the areas I spotted with this problem:
http://i.imgur.com/t7xQK0V.png
Ikaneko (832 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
Yeah, that was laziness on my part. I'll fix this quickly. What do you think in terms of balance?
Ikaneko (832 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
Second round of corrections. Thanks for the help so far, a real testament to the community. Thank you!

http://imgur.com/cNkN7hR

Any feedback? What do you think about the revised Cornwall/France?
Decima Legio (1987 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
Hi Ikaneko, welcome to the site!
Out of curiosity, is there a particular reason why you want to rival Heptarchy?
Ikaneko (832 D)
09 Oct 16 UTC
That 'rivalry' bit was a bit of tongue in cheek. I'm more interested in what you think of the map itself. So, what feedback would you give?
Decima Legio (1987 D)
10 Oct 16 UTC
At a first glance of the map draft I would say that the player in Scotland is way more distant from the other powers. I'd say that the the player in Normandy is still too much favoured: nobody can contest him the SCs in the inland of France during the early stage of the game.
Also there are yet at least four 4-way intersections. They're source of doubt and preferrably ought be eliminated in advance. Else you keep them and you can take care to describe them in the variant page... but I warn you in advance, know that the 100% of the players won't bother to read the variant description before playing it, so I would recommend to keep it simple and avoid misunderstandings regarding the logistics.
GOD (1850 D Mod (B))
10 Oct 16 UTC
Well I always read the variant description and generally assume that my fellow players do likewise? :p
Ikaneko (832 D)
10 Oct 16 UTC
Are you basing this off the latest map, as I think I resolved those problems with four way intersections. I'll bring Scotland closer and make Flanders an army if that works.
Ikaneko (832 D)
10 Oct 16 UTC
Hello GOD, what do you think of my map (for the latest revision, see post 15). What feedback would you give?
GOD (1850 D Mod (B))
10 Oct 16 UTC
I am following your map developments and will comment more later, but that white English nation could be easily blocked from getting any SC in the first year at all, which is not optimal.
Decima Legio (1987 D)
10 Oct 16 UTC
My comment was based on your last map update, yes.
That was not the point, though.

The Variant page is composed by 100 variants nowadays.
3 of them are set on the British Isles.
HeptarchyIV, http://vdiplomacy.net/variants.php?variantID=89
Celtic Britain, http://vdiplomacy.net/variants.php?variantID=75
Anarchy in the UK, http://vdiplomacy.net/variants.php?variantID=79
Together they sum up to the 1% in terms on games played on V-dip and 1,6% in terms of "popularity"
Although I do appreciate your efforts and your will to contribute to add a new variant... I'm not sure that a new variant of Britain would be a real added value to the website.

This being said, I am not "against" a new variant about UK. I just think that it's not worth the effort of designing ---> debugging ---> playtesting it. My point of view.
Good luck with your work Ikaneko, I hope that you will eventually prove me wrong.
G-Man (2466 D)
11 Oct 16 UTC
I am surprised how much I liked Heptarchy IV. It has great playability. Two reasons for that I think are the number and positioning of land territories. The sea territories are decent, but Sengoku Jidai has a really creative way of handling the sea terrirories that make it another really playable variant at this size, which I recommend referring to for ideas on how to structure sea territories: http://www.vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=27 . I would take one territory and work out how you think the nearby territories will make play interesting, and then work your way out to the rest of the map from there, e.g., consider London, the North Sea, Beligium, the English Channel, Picardy, Brest, the Mid-Atlantic, the Irish Sea, Wales and the powers with interest at the opening here, and how they work together and make the game really interesting; how they affect the balance of power in that area; how the navies and armies work together there...

I like balance, and tend not to like playing heavily imbalanced variants as much, but completely balanced variants tend to be boring. Some advantages and disadvantages for each power makes things more interesting (especially by mixing these up, e.g., one power is all fleets, one power could really use a second fleet but doesn't get it to start, one power has a chance to grab an extra neutral, one power has poor defense on one front... ), and a few -- perhaps stronger, or well-defensed or well-armed -- central powers can make things interesting for everyone.
G-Man (2466 D)
11 Oct 16 UTC
I neglected to mention my example on creating interesting playability by starting in one area and working your way out territory by territory was from the Classic Diplomacy map (and not yours).
Ikaneko (832 D)
11 Oct 16 UTC
OK, the general message is that the outer sea territories are too small if I extrapolate from Sengoku Jirai, and that a mixture of small littoral territories make for good play. That sounds achievable. I might couple that with moving Scotland down to leave the northern tertritories up for grabs. A Munich square would make for nice play, which is to say a centre with a lot of bordering territories. Opening up the board would be good. A larger question would be “Should I make the land territories smaller?”.
Ikaneko (832 D)
11 Oct 16 UTC
Third round of corrections. Moved Scotland, rejigged sea territories. What do you think?

http://imgur.com/pMB2BdR
Ikaneko (832 D)
16 Oct 16 UTC
http://imgur.com/ik2oW5z

Any thoughts or feedback? Anyone want to play an unofficial forum game to test?


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Ancient Med 5x5 Mini-Tournament
Not an open tournament, the roster is full and this thread will be for those players to communicate as needed regarding the games (standard restrictions apply regarding discussing ongoing games).
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MoscowFleet (903 D)
15 Oct 16 UTC
Classic-Crowded Game
I'd like to play a game of classic-crowded. Please add yourself to the list if you are interested in playing.

1. MoscowFleet
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RUFFHAUS 8 (2490 D)
13 Oct 16 UTC
World Diplomacy Variant with Nukes (special rules)
New World Order Variant at Redscape Forming
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The Ambassador (1948 D (B))
07 Oct 16 UTC
Google Translate game
Hi folks...
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Tardisblue412 (813 D)
06 Oct 16 UTC
Game ad haven
I need some players for a haven. I have already created the game fantasy land 86
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GOD (1850 D Mod (B))
05 Oct 16 UTC
Diplomacy via Whatsapp in German or English
Dear vdip community, a group of players from a German site came up with the idea of creating a gunboat game, exchanging phone numbers and communicate solely via whatsapp. I thought that the idea is pretty cool and would love to try it out.
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Anon (?? D)
28 Sep 16 UTC
Please come and join this massive WW2 map
I know half the userbase is probably on this right now, but it would be a crying shame if we were to miss out on this incredible opportunity.
gameID=28019
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kaner406 (2181 D Mod (B))
14 Sep 16 UTC
Gents I propose a game of Chaoctopi
It's been a LOOOONG while since this variant has been played. So I've created a game. 2 day phases, full press, unrated, hidden draw votes, no Sunday orders and random country assignments...
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DQ (1000 D)
25 Sep 16 UTC
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Introductions seem to be in order!
Howdy folks! New to the site, interested in all things diplomacy. What should I know about this place so I don't step on anyone's toes? I'm Chris Martin, playing Diplomacy mostly in the USA. Looking forward to meeting folks and maybe playing a few games.
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Ikaneko (832 D)
28 Sep 16 UTC
New colonial game
I've started a new colonial game at gameID=28092 . Anyone who'd like to join, please do.
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fvc
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Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
26 Sep 16 UTC
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PSA: Do not create Pick Your Country games with the Choose Your Country option enabled.
There's a bug in the PYC variant that causes it to crash when the game starts if the Choose Your Country option is enabled. Getting the games to cancel after everyone has joined requires banning/unbanning one player in the game, which can cause a lot of issues if that player is in other games, and is a fair amount of work even if they're not.

Until Oli is able to fix the bug (which may be a while), please only use the Random Country Assignment option for PYC.
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Anon (?? D)
20 Sep 16 UTC
That Big Map - JOIN NOW GOGOGO
So I just came over from Webdip and saw that massive world variant with like 36 countries. So of course I want to play it. Let's see if we can fill this up yeah!

gameID=28019
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faded box (1101 D)
17 Sep 16 UTC
C'mon you got a few minutes
What you got? Don't be scared. It won't last long
gameID=27989
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faded box (1101 D)
11 Sep 16 UTC
Can I get 3 for LIVe
Anyone ready for a live 4p match?
South America 4p - 5min- starts in 20
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=27924
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Sendric (2060 D)
22 Feb 16 UTC
PBEM NWO Game
Some of you may remember last year's NWO (New-World Order) game that I GM'd. It's a play-by-email game that uses a world map with 40+ nations of varying sizes. It comes complete with wing units, nuclear missiles, and rampant back-stabbing. You can check out last year's game and the rules here: http://www.sendric.com/diplomacy/

If you are interested, you can post here, send me a private message or even email me (sendric [at] gmail [dot] com).
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Anon (?? D)
06 Sep 16 UTC
Octopus forming
This game is forming, password "tentakel". We want only serious players who don't nmr.

http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=27862
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Anon (?? D)
06 Sep 16 UTC
New game-Africa
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=27874
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faded box (1101 D)
04 Sep 16 UTC
join in make and paly it fast
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Anon (?? D)
04 Sep 16 UTC
Since this is likely to come up and could see me banned.
gameID=27792

More inside
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Thoughts on Brexit?
Open to people from all countries, I'm doing a survey on what people think of the recent Brexit vote. Just post your comment and country please. Thanks to anyone who participates
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