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David E. Cohen (1000 D)
28 Nov 21 UTC
A Sad Anniversary Today.
One full year.

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gopher27 (1606 D Mod)
14 Nov 21 UTC
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Question for Alternative History nerds
In January of 1920, when Kolchak resigned in favor of Semyonov, a Japanese puppet, what would have happened if the Japanese had gotten Semyonov's Buryat puppet state to roll up the Trans-Siberian Railroad as they withdrew from Omsk?
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epstein (1031 D)
14 Nov 21 UTC
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Advertise Your Used Car Here!
Want to sell a used car? I didn't see a thread dedicated to that so I thought that I'd set one up. Kind of helpful, aren't I?
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David Hood (976 D)
12 Nov 21 UTC
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November 2021 Deadline News is out!
This latest edition on the Diplomacy Broadcast Network includes tournament news, other headlines, and a panel discussion about the use of a Top Board format in a Diplomacy event:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9p5NV8UHlU
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Malarky (1000 D)
03 Oct 21 UTC
A new Dipzine?
I posted this on webDip (and elsewhere) but then thought I should probably post here, too.
I'm looking to launch a new Dipzine called "Notes on a Napkin."
If you've anything you want to contribute to issue #1 drop me a line at diplomaticonpublishing@gmail.com. Go on - give it a go!
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epstein (1031 D)
02 Nov 21 UTC
How do I create a game here where I can test the game engine?
I want to play some solo games, or else make a few games that will start even if they are not full. How can I do this? Sorry I'm new.
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ubercacher16 (2169 D)
15 Oct 21 UTC
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Nexus Season Seven
The registrations for Nexus Season Seven have opened on Discord. Represent vDiplomacy in the extended deadline hobby's marquis event! PM me for more information or an invite to the discord and more information.
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David Hood (976 D)
23 Oct 21 UTC
Oct 2021 edition of Deadline News from the Diplomacy Broadcast Network
Has been released on YouTube. Panel discussion about cliques, interview with Oliver Lugg about The Game of Knife, and Nexus News - along with headlines from around the world of Diplomacy. For the next episode, I'd love some variant news from anyone here at VDip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDxzKSR8T4&t=9s
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Anon (?? D)
16 Sep 21 UTC
Request for a game sitter
I currently have a position in the DSA game (gameID=41200), however, I expect to be out of cell reception from the 18th-27th (possibly ending a little earlier). If anyone is interested in watching the game for me for a while please reply below, and I will DM you. I can't tell you the country before you agree to take it, but I am not doing badly.

Thanks!
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Anon (?? D)
04 Oct 21 UTC
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Forced extend?
https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=49570#gamePanel

In this game, the mods forced a 5 day pause because of an issue a player had. I believe the mods overstepped their authority by not letting the players vote themselves on whether to extend/pause the game. Instead of a message unilaterally pausing the game, I would have appreciated a message explaining the situation and giving the option to extend.
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FxFocus (1000 D)
06 Oct 21 UTC
Baffled noob needs help..!
I tried to create my first game but there was no option to play bots that I could see?
So I came to the forum with the intention of searching for an answer but all I can see is a list of recent posts with no mention of categories or search option.
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Flame (1073 D)
05 Oct 21 UTC
Request about Links in Forum
Why not to show all the links in forum post as hyperlinks? Not only locals. It's so inconvenient...
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Julius Ceasar (1047 D)
28 Sep 21 UTC
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Anon, No message, Europe Renovatio. Please join.
Please join this anonymous, no messaging, Europe Renovatio variant game. We still need 27 players. Let's make this work.
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I need feedback for this.
I've formulated rules revisions for fleets. I can assure you that criticisms will only be appreciated.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qSAmPNbd_PToPmyBGpHvGyXo_JtIv_4LFu0dY_hU7S4
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Zebulon Zirbou (876 D)
26 Sep 21 UTC
Diplo Ligue - Saison d’Automne 2021
La Diplo-Ligue redémarre !
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Nikitan (1418 D)
11 Sep 21 UTC
Abandoning a game peacefully
Is it possible to peacefully transfer a game to another player without ruining my reliability record? I'm a bit busy with stuff in life and want to give up a game in an ok-position. How do I do that?

(Or does anyone simply want to take my place? I know that the transfer option works but I don't know anyone to give it to)
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David Hood (976 D)
10 Sep 21 UTC
September 2021 Deadline News is out!
DBN's monthly news program is out for September, featuring a panel discussion about soloing, Nexus News, and headlines from around the world of Diplomacy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PoIjhjjRvg
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Fake Al (1747 D)
11 Apr 20 UTC
Bronze Age Diplomacy Development
New variant being developed in collaboration with a player from Discord. Set in 1350 BC.
https://vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=142
Will probably be looking to run a test soon.
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LexLuthor (980 D)
09 Jul 21 UTC
IMPERIAL II Players
Who would like to play games of Imperial II on a regular basis? I'd like start like a league and start keeping track of results. Need 13.
https://www.vdiplomacy.com/variants.php?variantID=81
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Anon (?? D)
05 Sep 21 UTC
Country swap
Anyone wanna swap with me in a game of imperial diplo? Life kinda got me down and I'm also not confident at my chances
https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=49371#gamePanel
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Flame (1073 D)
04 Sep 21 UTC
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Avatars?
What about making avatars awailiable in profile-page?
Please, check here:
https://webdiplomacy.ru/profile.php?userID=5
Please write the whole address in the browser address-line to get the access.
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Flame (1073 D)
28 Aug 21 UTC
In-game Chat Bug
When you write smth in the PRE-GAME chat of GUNBOAT game you'll find out that your message was written twice. Anybody knows how to fix it or tell me the line in a code where the bug is?
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David Hood (976 D)
13 Aug 21 UTC
Newest edition of Deadline News from the Diplomacy Broadcast Network - Aug 2021
A panel discussion about player motivations, interview with author of recently published YA novel about Dip, and headlines from around the world of Diplomacy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siWaQ9l0y2A
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drano019 (2710 D Mod)
17 Aug 20 UTC
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Europa Renovatio - Team Game Interest
See below.
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drano019 (2710 D Mod)
19 Aug 20 UTC
Macca -

I fail to see how having a team number would change anything. People could lie, or more likely, just not say anything about their teams in-game. The way I imagine hidden teams though is that someone outside the game creates teams, and then PMs each person individually with their team listed as:

"Your team is - Aragon, Switzerland, Ottomans, Lithuania" or something like that.

I'd also assume that yes, Unranked would be the way to go here for obvious reasons.
drano019 (2710 D Mod)
19 Aug 20 UTC
1. drano019
2. Bonatogether (2+ day phases only)
3. ezpickins (?)
4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
8. berberstrijder
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ubercacher16 (2169 D)
19 Aug 20 UTC
Would the person making the teams do it completely random or would they have the power to do anything about balancing (both between players and countries)
drano019 (2710 D Mod)
19 Aug 20 UTC
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We'd set the parameters beforehand. Two options I see

1) Completely random. If neighbors end up on the same team, so be it.
2) Setup "groups". 4 groups of 9 in general regions of the map (for example - Portugal, Castille, Aragon, Morocco, Tlemcen, France, Tunis, Genoa, Papacy, or something like that) and the person selects one from each group per team.

Personally, I like full random.
mouse (1825 D)
19 Aug 20 UTC
1. drano019
2. Bonatogether (2+ day phases only)
3. ezpickins (?)
4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
8. berberstrijder
9. erikip107
10. Temasek22 (?)
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I am so in for this.
In terms of teams I'd honestly say it'd be better to have known, grouped teams (eg. 'Iberia', 'Scandinavia', 'North Africa') and a random country assignment, but completely random teams also works.

(if 'grouped' it'd probably need to be 12 teams of 3 rather than 9 teams of 4, though)
KingOfSwords (1497 D)
19 Aug 20 UTC
I'm not signing up for the game right now, but it is a very interesting idea. I'm seriously considering volunteering to be the person who assigns the teams. The idea I've been thinking of is to distribute them randomly, then if any one team included two countries right next to each other, to redistribute particular countries so no team had that much of an advantage.

Pure randomness would also be fun, but some teams would doubtless be in much stronger positions than others.

I'm not a big fan of the "pool" system, because most countries would still have very close neighbors that had been assigned to other pools. As for assigning countries in geographic teams of neighbors so that everyone has a similar situation, that would probably work better with public teams instead of secret ones.

During the game play, when players start getting eliminated, I would announce globally how many teams still had 4 players, how many now had 3, and so on. The identities of the teams would remain secret, I would only announce simple statistics.

Well, just a suggestion.
erikip107 (2539 D)
19 Aug 20 UTC
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I like the balanced randomness idea, where the initial draw is random, but if there seems to be a strong geographical advantage present for anyone, some swapping might be necessary. Something that I think could be added to the "no adjacent powers on the same team" idea, though not necessary, is to make sure no team has two powers on the African continent, even if they're not adjacent. Tactically, if one team gains early control of Africa, they have a very good chance of winning the game, from the games I've seen.
ubercacher16 (2169 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
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I agree with everything erikip107 said. Having someone like KingOfSwords to distribute the teams would be necessary.

If this game works we should try a Divided States game with 10 teams of 5.
CBro27 (1453 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
This sounds awesome. I'm absolute down. I think KoS's setup sounds like the best way to go about it too. Thanks Drano for the great idea.
ubercacher16 (2169 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
1. drano019
2. Bonatogether (2+ day phases only)
3. ezpickins (?)
4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
8. berberstrijder
9. erikip107
10. Temasek22 (?)
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mouse (1825 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
Unless we are going in with pre-set teams I strongly disgaree with having anyone 'fudge' the results. If we want this to be random, do it random.
drano019 (2710 D Mod)
20 Aug 20 UTC
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I much prefer hidden teams over known teams. If we wanted to set very basic parameters, we could, but that also would give people a lot of "knowns" about things.

For example using the suggested parameters:

- No African power is on the same team.
- Bohemia had at least 6 people they cannot be on the same team with.
- Genoa had up to 7, and Venice has up to 9 depending on how you define neighboring power.

There's more, but I feel like one could whittle down team possibilities fairly quickly with certain rules.

I realize it could cause an imbalance, but I'm all for complete random. That's why it's unranked right? Let the chips fall where they will, and work that Diomacy! Could make things really exciting and fun!
gopher27 (1606 D Mod)
20 Aug 20 UTC
Will there be role-playing? :oP
ubercacher16 (2169 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
Is there ever not?
drano019 (2710 D Mod)
20 Aug 20 UTC
gopher - Just for you, why not? Jump on the bandwagon!
bsiper (1281 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
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2. Bonatogether (2+ day phases only)
3. ezpickins (?)
4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
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ezpickins (1714 D)
20 Aug 20 UTC
I'm in regardless now, I feel like we'll get a good balance or at least a good competitive stance.
CCR (1957 D)
21 Aug 20 UTC
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I'm in as long as it's all random (powers and teams).

Hey, King of Sowrds, c'mon and play it with us. We just have to ask any mod to do the favor and make the random assignment, One of them would gladly accept it.

Note the game doesn't have to be anonymous, but I can understand any objection. Make it unrated, non-anonymous, 1 1/2 to 2 days, Minimum RR doesn't matter since the players will be the ones listed here. Any objection? :)
ubercacher16 (2169 D)
21 Aug 20 UTC
1. drano019
2. Bonatogether (2+ day phases only)
3. ezpickins
4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
8. berberstrijder
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Temasek22 (980 D)
21 Aug 20 UTC
I think I probably phrased my original message badly. I was planning to either join or being the person to assign teams (which KingOfSwords later volunteered to do) So count me in.

Do 2 day phases work for everyone?
Mark12345 (1017 D)
21 Aug 20 UTC
Feel free to add me to this if/when it gets going.
ubercacher16 (2169 D)
21 Aug 20 UTC
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ubercacher16 (2169 D)
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4. Siegmar Bruggen
5. Macca573 (2+ day phases only)
6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
7. ubercacher16 (2+ day phases only)
8. berberstrijder
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gopher27 (1606 D Mod)
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6. Mr. Finkelmuiyer
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Macca573 (1517 D)
24 Aug 20 UTC
Role play? In what way?
gopher27 (1606 D Mod)
24 Aug 20 UTC
Good day Brother,

We find ourselves surrounded by Slavs in varying stages of barbarism. Some are little more then thinly disguised pagan heathens. Others heretics in thrall to Byzantine error. Even the Poles, who claim to follow the one true faith, make common cause (and even demean the sacrament of marriage) with the godless Lithuanians.

It would be foolish and ungodly for us to not make common cause. For if we do not hang together, we will most certainly hang separately. I assure you that the armies under my command have fully recovered from the embarrassing setback suffered at Tannenburg half a century ago, and the Ritterbrueders are prepared to remake the current order if Poland and Lithuania can be diplomatically cleaved while we can be assured that our fellow Monastic State will stand united with us in the name of Christ and the Mother Church.

It has been 200 years since your humiliation at the Battle of Lake Peipus. The time has come for the Slavs to again learn to fear the Livonian Brotherhood of the Sword. Terra Mariana should be expanded to the East.

Yours in Christ,
Albrecht von Gopherhausen
Großmeister der Deutschen Ritter
Macca573 (1517 D)
24 Aug 20 UTC
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That was pretty epic...
CCR (1957 D)
24 Aug 20 UTC
We've been stuck under half way to go... I suggest game creation asap, with a brief description (team game, role play encouraged). Non anonymous would save us a lot of roll call checking; or, it can be anonymous, but then we reset the current roll call - to show who's already signed in.
Mercy (2131 D)
24 Aug 20 UTC
I probably won't play but I would be happy to do the team randomization.
Bonatogether (1209 D)
26 Aug 20 UTC
I agree with CCR, although I'm unsure everyone can meet the roleplay standard that has been set.

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butterhead (1272 D)
09 Apr 21 UTC
Divided States Team Game
Hey guys! Back in the day, we used to do a lot of team games on here(chaos map, classic, etc). Im curious if people would be interested in doing a team game of the divided states map... Yes, I know, 50 people is a LOT to get for a team game. Here is how it would work.
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ubercacher16 (2169 D)
08 Aug 21 UTC
Nexus Cold War Tournament
More info in thread!
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butterhead (1272 D)
27 Apr 21 UTC
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Appreciation
Thank you mods for just being super awesome and taking great care of this site. We appreciate everything you do, and think you guys are all around awesome.

Thank you, that is all
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