Octavious wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 11, 2023 8:00 am

Yahoo Pool vibe from 20 year ago

Hahaha, a perfect description

CaptainMeme really hit the nail on the head there. I've been here for 12 years and 1 week. I used to be reticent of recommending this site to people because the landing page looked more like Tettleton's Chew and Conservative Man's private, racist blogs than a Diplomacy site. I'm very glad their ilk ...

Holy shit. Well done, guys. It looks amazing.

I've heard that the best way to get your business seen is to post on niche hobby websites? Is that something you'd be able to help me out with?

WebDip doesn’t highlight its ranking lists like it used to with the Ghostrating lists which used to help drive some competitive spirit At least the stats aren't behind a paywall :eyeroll:. But, yes, more organized game better publicized stats may drive competitiveness and engagement - I 100% agree ...

Do you have stats for active press games over time? It feels to me like WebDip has a disproportionate increase in gunboat (and bot, of course) games over the years. The decrease in full press games may be even more pronounced than the drop in site activity.

That would be amazing but I'd imagine a feat of engineering far beyond anything the community is capable (plus one site is, to some extent, pay-to-play).

"there's three running simultaneously across different sites and servers"

I think this really hurt the ODC. Would be nice if things got more centralized and less fractured for the online community.

I think it indicates that the bet is over a certain amount. You can ignore it - nobody really cares about those points.

Happy to start the new year off with an L. Sign me up.

Forget dystopian Facebook Diplomacy, this is the most exciting thing to happen here in years.

Yeah, Ghost used to scrape the data from the site so all you had was the players at the end of the game. Now that it's been integrated in the site, I imagine some adjustments are possible. The dev team seems have a lot on their plate and other priorities so I imagine it won't happen anytime soon. Re...

I believe it is at the end.

Interesting. I'm definitely skeptical of Skag working out for England that early in FP because of the hairiness of that 3-way but maybe there's a lesson in here somewhere about Russia opening north. I think it's generally less fashionable to open north because of the issues you pointed out but maybe...

Very interesting video, Meme.

Do you think the fact that the AI went hard after Scandinavia is a peculiarity of gunboat or do you think it's revealing a bit of underappreciated tactics that could translate to full press Diplomacy too?

Octavious wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 12, 2022 9:58 pm

JECE wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 12, 2022 8:58 pm

kestasjk wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 12, 2022 10:53 am

We're expecting a user spike over the next few weeks also which adds to the mix.

Exciting! Where would they come from?

Refugees following a glorious direct assault on PlayDip. Huzzah!

Please. Someone come rescue me from this grueling ODC tournament.

While you're in the process of a major UI overhaul, would this be a good time to add preferred pronouns for each user in a game? It's a bit of an awkward aspect playing with people you don't know and has an easy fix (at least conceptually, I know nothing of programming).

Oh, I didn't think that was a dissenting view. Strongly in favour of territories changing colour. It's so much easier to see what's happening on the board.

Good points, gimix. Another thing I noticed is that the press is no longer labeled with the date or game phase, just time. If you only want to use one of date and game phase to keep things clean, I would strongly suggest game phase. I often find it quite important to look back to see what phase pres...

I was very nervous when I saw this post because I seriously have a soft spot for our map here. It's how my brain pictures the Diplomacy board. But big kudos on the test board. It looks really great.