Messages - vDiplomacy

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25 Feb 19 UTC	Spring, 1973: (G-Man): Ive heard from one player who is having technical difficulties signing onto the game since he recently accidentally CD’d before he was officially eliminated in a game. Since he is involved in other games the site won’t let him add this game until he improves his score. But since he is so close to the threshold for this, he has written the mods to ask for a small exception to join this game. So, I’m going to give him a bit of time to hear back from the mods before proceeding to send more invites to players from past games in the Cloak & Dagger series to fill the remaining spots. I.e., expect this game to begin tomorrow or Wednesday. Thanks in advance for everone’s patience (and count on me to always do what I can to accommodate players from past games in the series).
26 Feb 19 UTC	Spring, 1973: (vixol): seems some powers are seriously unbalanced? everyone read the stats for the variant so our alliances even out the odds.
26 Feb 19 UTC	Spring, 1973: (G-Man): I haven’t played this variant yet, but I’d say most variants have stronger and weaker powers, it’s to what degree that creates a noteworthy imbalance.
09 Apr 19 UTC	Autumn, 1978: Such a cruel game this is.
20 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1984: wow this is a big draw, 4 way, or will WA and TAS try to eliminate some of the smaller allies, feeding the crocodile so you get eaten last, eh NZ and Indonesia?
21 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1984: It will probably be a 4 way, unless Indo or nz break ranks
23 May 19 UTC	Autumn, 1984: alright so what now?
24 May 19 UTC	Autumn, 1984: thanks for the game, well played, a big reversal of fortune for myself. i hope someone tries to make the draw smaller in the spirit of diplomacy.
28 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1985: feel free to ready retreats chaps.
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: Its getting hot at the east coast
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: There is not much need for diplomacy at this stage so shall we just get this finished quickly then get onto a different map for the next game?
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: nah, i'm good. For the retreats i was in a nice mood, but no need to rush towards my demise each turn
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: Aren't you supposed to play to solo or reduce map to fewest number of remainers, so everyone but Queensland going to be in draw? if thats the case why not just include queensland in the draw if everyone else going to be in it, if you are playing to have the largest draw possible to be nice.
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: Fair point
31 May 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: Yes, but there are exceptions. I.e., if you’re the lynchpin between a three- to four-man draw, are you going to take out your best game-long ally to make that happen? There are many four- and five-man draws that could have gone farther, but don’t because it’s each alliance that is drawing with each other. Otherwise, three-man draws would actually happen less often since players would agree to larger draws and keeping powers around that could block them from being eliminated/the victim of draw whittling if everyone was always going to play for the three-man draw (since a two-man is rarely possible on most variants) when not being able to solo.
01 Jun 19 UTC	Spring, 1986: Who would you have me attack and when? Id say I'm not open to stabs. I've been careful to secure my borders. But who could I attack and expect to come out on top? Enlighten me.
03 Jun 19 UTC	Autumn, 1986: Not sure if you asking me, but I imagine a group of 2 could ally to eliminate the others, but since I am defeated I should probably stop yapping, and shut the F up like Donny in the Big Lebowski.
03 Jun 19 UTC	Autumn, 1986: It's the definition of a Mexican standoff.
03 Jun 19 UTC	Autumn, 1986: I tried to build a wall, but you mexicans are standing everywhere around me
10 Jun 19 UTC	Autumn, 1987: GameMaster: New Zealand voted for a Pause. If everyone votes Pause the game stop and wait till everybody votes Unpause. Please consider backing this.