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Caustic (827 D)
06 May 20 UTC
5G is the topic
Our current cell towers, phone/power lines, etc already give off radiation. 5g= 4g x100. What do you know?
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mcoirad (1000 D)
02 May 20 UTC
New Variant in development: Brazilian - Classic
My grandfather recently died and as I went through his things I found a prototype for a Diplomacy bootleg. He used to work in import/export in South America so maybe it was related to that. In his honor I am working to digitize the variant. Here is a preview image:

https://i.imgur.com/ENDewMs.png
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mcoirad (1000 D)
03 May 20 UTC
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New Variant in development: Brazilian - Classic
My grandfather recently died and as I went through his things I found a prototype for a Diplomacy bootleg. He used to work in import/export in South America so maybe it was related to that. In his honor I am working to digitize the variant. Here is a preview image:

https://i.imgur.com/ENDewMs.png
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alifeee (1229 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
Variant development questions (Scottish_Clan_Wars)
Hi, I've looked at Spain in the classic map, and there are three territories: Spain, Spain (NC), and Spain (SC). The first has only land-links and the latter two have only sea/boat-links. I've recreated this in my map, but I don't think it's formatting the same as Spain in the classic map. How do I make a North/South coast divide?
alifeee (1229 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
Second problem: I named one of my territories "John o' Groats", and it's screwed the code on the 'units' page.

"syntax error, unexpected 'Groats' (T_STRING), expecting ')'"

Looks like it ended the string early, so I've changed the territory name to "John o Groats". Units page is still dead though.
Player5 (2203 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
Look's the the dev tools are subject to code injection!
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exploits_of_a_mom.png
Mercy (2131 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
As far as I understand it, if you recreate this in the map, it will automatically format in the right way. If you create a territory 'X', 'X (north coast)' and 'X (south coast)', the game will recognize that there is just one territory X with two coasts.
alifeee (1229 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
I've renamed them to 'X (South Coast)' from 'X (SC)' etc. They don't format like boats like on the classic map.
Also I can't access the map after saving that because it says

Error: undefined index: Sutherland

Which is the name of one of my double-coastal territories.
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
14 Mar 20 UTC
@Player5.
Well, these tools where only developed for my personal use. It was never meant to be used by a larger crowd.
I will take a look at this. For security-reasons I have disabled dev-access for anybody. Sorry. Once I get some time to make this more failure-proof I will enable this again. But it might take a few weeks.
Player5 (2203 D)
14 Mar 20 UTC
Sad, I was looking forward to trying to get root access to the server :)
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Mar 20 UTC
@Player5: Just did a fast check, a code-injection is not possible.
As these tools are just a hack for me to make developing new variants easier, they are really quirkey to use. But it's much better than generating all files by hand...
PS: Everyone working on y variant has access now again.
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Mar 20 UTC
The problem with your variant was you created "Sutherland" later than the coast-territories. So once you created your install.php the install-process loaded "Sutherland (South Coast)" and yould not find "Sutherland". I rearanged the line in the Install.php by hand. Everything loads now.
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Mar 20 UTC
@Player5 again:
Found the problem. Should be fixed now. Thanks for reporting.
alifeee (1229 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
@Oli cheers for your debugging, map development is going well again :)
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Mar 20 UTC
Just a small addition. During editing the variant the coasts will look wrong. As you save and reload the correct connection to the main-territory will be created and everything will look alright. That's why it threw you an error after saving as it failed to find the main-territory after reloading.
Player5 (2203 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
Thanks for all the work Oli!!
alifeee (1229 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
I've added bigmap.png and bigmapNames.png files, but the bigmap doesn't display on the map tab. It says there is a generic error. What could be causing this and how can I fix it?
Mercy (2131 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
Rename bigmap.png to map.png and bigmapNames.png to mapNames.png.
Player5 (2203 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
Try removing the 'big' from the names?

Either that or have Oli replace the line:
$prefix = ( ($this->smallmap) ? 'small' : '');
with
$prefix = ( ($this->smallmap) ? 'small' : 'big');
in drawMap.php

There might be other things that have to change too that I'm not aware of if you want to keep the name 'bigmapNames.png'
Player5 (2203 D)
15 Mar 20 UTC
Lol... Mercy too fast for me :)
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Mar 20 UTC
The map-tool can create the XY-coordinates for the largemap automatically from the smallmap. Just click on "Create: all unset".
alifeee (1229 D)
16 Mar 20 UTC
Thanks all, I guess calling it bigmap colloquially when playing with friends has really gotten to me. Ah I wish I'd seen that sooner Oli, just finished choosing the unit placements by hand haha.
alifeee (1229 D)
24 Apr 20 UTC
I think I am nearly ready to release this variant.

I'd like to have some custom sprites for to replace tanks and warships with swordsmen and longships to be more thematic, as in the Sengoku variant - though I'm not great at pixel art so help is appreciated.

What shall I do when I am ready for the variant to be released?
Oooh a gathering of the clans!
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
25 Apr 20 UTC
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You can check the other variants for icons you want to use if you can't get some.
A friend of mine did the AncMed ones that get used in many other variants too.
alifeee (1229 D)
25 Apr 20 UTC
The AncMed ones work for me! I added the .pngs 'army', 'fleet', 'smallarmy', and 'smallfleet' from AncMed, as well as 'iconscorrect.js'. The icons haven't changed yet, what else do I need to upload?

After this though, it's ready for release, what else do I need to do before it can get released?
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
25 Apr 20 UTC
The new icons need some (small) code changes that I will take care of tomorrow.
alifeee (1229 D)
02 May 20 UTC
Sorry to pester, but it was a week since the last post here. The variant is ready for release without custom tanks and boats if that's easier than adding them.
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
02 May 20 UTC
Oh, sorry. Life is super-busy at the moment and I have totally lost track of the site.
Let's see if I can get this working.
Oli (977 D Mod (P))
03 May 20 UTC
It's life now.
Sorry for the delay and thanks a lot for implementing this.
alifeee (1229 D)
03 May 20 UTC
Thanks a lot for your help Oli! You've been amazing :)
Fake Al (1747 D)
03 May 20 UTC
Congrats on the release alifeee!


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riffraff7 (1000 D)
01 May 20 UTC
Variants
Can you use any of the variants here for a game on conspiracy application
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Caustic (827 D)
02 May 20 UTC
Who's on
Is there 2 other ppl on that want to play live right now?
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Oli (977 D Mod (P))
15 Apr 20 UTC
Maybe we should switch to phpBB..?
As the our current forum has it's limitations (no subforums, no search) I'm thinking about switching to phpBB (like on webdip).
Are there any objections, things to keep in mind?
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KingOfSwords (1497 D)
24 Apr 20 UTC
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Forming Games: Number of Players Needed
Forming games used to include a status line that said something like "X players out of Y still needed". Why did this message go away? I thought it was a useful indication of how close a game was either to starting, or to being cancelled due to not enough players signing up.
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YoYoBoBo (1000 D)
21 Apr 20 UTC
Fill with Bots Option
How do you get this option to appear? I tried unrated no messaging but I'm not seeing it, is it just automatic?
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Drawing a Map
When I am drawing a map do I have to use paint.net
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umbletheheep (1023 D)
21 Apr 20 UTC
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Diplomacy Board Game Giveaway
The Briefing is giving away a free Diplomacy board game. Here's how to win it: https://www.diplomacybriefing.com/giveaway
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kaner406 (2181 D Mod (B))
11 Mar 20 UTC
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A massive congrats for the first Divided States win!
gameID=34103
Congratulations Amby! For winning as New York! 2 years well spent ey?
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umbletheheep (1023 D)
17 Apr 20 UTC
Learn from Diplomacy Champions
One of the segments I run in The Briefing is "Champions Corner." Basically, this is a tournament winner describing their thought process. The 2020 ones we've done are in the comments. (Side note: If you aren't a subscriber, be sure to join up)
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DevTools
How do I make the coloring of the map correct? (Right now all the colors on the map I am working on are different)
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x and y when making a new territory in DevTools
How do the x and y work?
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WOPWOP (903 D)
16 Apr 20 UTC
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Sandboxes
Is there a way to create sandboxes similar to the system used on backstabbr.com here?

Thanks!
WOPWOP
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Little League vDip Game
In deliberate, though non-antagonistic, contrast to Amby's thread (and to get other people about thinking about making other threads for other bands), let's have a game for folks in the 500-1k vDip points range.

To keep things quick, let's grab the first seven folks and play a non-anon game of classic, with full press and 36-hour phases.
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Heer Alvaro (1000 D)
13 Apr 20 UTC
Want to create a new variant map - Middle East 21th Century - 5 players
Dear colleagues, I need your help. I have designed a variant map for five players set in the Middle East in the 21st century. info of this map:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1xXOYxLLRRMZSYr3xGWxxToAt1R4mw8iZ
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CCR (1957 D)
14 Apr 20 UTC
Bug on Mongolian
Fleets in Adaman Sea are unable to convoy armies to Siam.

Players of "Make war, not love" please either pause, draw or cancel because this bug has affected my plans twice in this game.
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diplopoet (739 D)
11 Apr 20 UTC
strategy/tactics guides for non classic variants?
Do any exist?
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adamkelly2.0 (611 D)
30 Mar 20 UTC
create your own varient
is it possible to create your own variant?
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PM
How can I see my private messages
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Flame (1073 D)
11 Apr 20 UTC
What does it mean?
What does this param mean?

https://ibb.co/ZLKZQkb
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umbletheheep (1023 D)
10 Apr 20 UTC
Variants and Copyright
I've seen some other sites have Game of Throne and Lord of the Ring Diplomacy variants. Is there a particular reason why vDip doesn't? I know in the past postal zine there were even Star Wars and Star Trek ones. Is this a copyright issue or just no one has put one together?
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BBQSauce123321 (2026 D)
10 Apr 20 UTC
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Classic- Caspian Variant?
Now I don't know how to code or make maps, so I likely can't do this, but I do think it would be entertaining for someone to create a map based upon this discussion (http://www.diplomacy-archive.com/resources/humour/coast_moscow.htm) where Moscow can build fleets and have them move through Sev (perhaps by means of the Volga-Don Canal?)
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Flame (1073 D)
10 Apr 20 UTC
Alexander's wars period maps
Interesting map to be developed as WebDiplomacy-map. Of course balance-fix and terretory-changes to the map are to be done.

https://sillysoft.net/vox/maps/ALEXANDER
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Eham (992 D)
09 Jan 20 UTC
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Variants to Port to webDip
I won Zultar's (webDip co-owner) New Year's prize, which is getting to pick three variants, of which they'll pick one (if possible) to port over. I don't play many variants, so I'm asking the experts:
What are three popular, stable variants that don't have much—if anything, in terms of special rules, (basically nothing that involves messing with the adjudicator, since it is a big, scary, complex bit of code)—that you would want to see included on webDiplomacy.net?
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ubercacher16 (2169 D)
06 Apr 20 UTC
10,000
I just completed my 10,000th phase on vDip. Just thought that is cool and wanted to share it with everyone.
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Sky_Hopper (365 D)
01 Apr 20 UTC
Appears to be allowed, although it really shouldn't be
Apparently, if you take over a country in CD in one game, then CD yourself, you can later take over a different CD'd country in the same game. Perhaps this should be disallowed? I'd like to hear everyone's thoughts.
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Anon (?? D)
30 Mar 20 UTC
Classic game (gameID=42112) including some friends
Two friends and I want to play a game and we're looking for others to make it up to the full contingent. gameID=42112

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