Which countries is it unluckiest to be landed with playing gunboat on the World Diplomacy XI map? Surely some are especially awkward to deal with. I'm looking at you, Australia...

Are there any traders on this site? Equity,option,fx,or commodity.

It seems that we have many experts on here, but I'd like to find out what we don't know. Post your topics to see if we can find something we all know nothing about. I'll start.

Topiary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/09/nyregion/christie-aide-tied-to-bridge-lane-closings.html?hp&_r=0

Officials from Chris Christie's office have reportedly been linked to lane closures earlier in September as a measure of political retribution against the mayor of Fort Lee, NJ.

I know you should expect to be backstabbed in this game but I feel like im being backstabbed every time I make an "alliance". Is this normal and does anyone else feel like they are being backstabbed this often?

"Is Christnaity a force for good in the world, counting both today and the past?" Crazy Anglican representing Christian theism and obiwanobiwan representing atheism. Full debate transcript inside!

Auburn gets crushed in the national championship game and people realize that the SEC just wasn't that good

I find myself in need of a new game. Anyone interested in a 2-3day Classic WTA?

I forget where we are supposed to send our cheating accusations. I know enough not to post them here.

http://shine.yahoo.com/parenting/tiger-mom-39-book-stirs-culture-wars-195300564.html The high drama Tiger Momma has selected 8 select groups as being more naturally-successful than others--Mormons, Cuban exiles, Nigerian Americans, Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, American Jews (we're the Chosen People Again...yay?), Iranian Americans and Lebanese Americans...Stereotyping--selling shitty books since the Dawn of Time!

Is global warming happening? Even with unprecedented cold plaguing North America?

Let the debate continue

When the water in the ground suddenly freezes and causes a loud boom and shakes the ground. This was experienced widely outside of Toronto. Temperature hovering at 40°C

Post here with any games you take over, or pm me if they are gunboats, and I will reimburse you the points if the position you take over is not the one with the most supply centers.

*This coupon is not valid with any other offers from webdiplomacy.net, coupon is not valid if you CD in the positions you take over. Moderators and family of moderators not eligible. Terms and conditions may apply.

I am new to this web based forum, but holy cow is there anything than people who don't move? I mean for crying out loud, you have 12 hours! to figure out what to do and, nope, can't be bothered! Yeah, it kind of wrecks the game for everyone else when the neighbor of the lamehead grows too strong too fast, but whatevs.

And joining a live game minutes before then simply doing limp? WTF?

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/07/steven-seagal-and-5-other-celebs-who-flirted-with-running-for-office.html
Actors saying they might run for office even if not legally able to do so.

Em... See inside. (bonobos AND chimpanzees are our closest living relatives)

At least from my searching for them on the pages with the most likes to their name...leaving aside the J.K. Rowlings, Stephenie Meyers, And Stephen Kings--Shakespeare (surprise!) ranks 1st with 6.8 million, Maya Angelou (surprise...?) is 2nd with over 4 million, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is 3rd with over 3 million, Fyodor Dostoyevsky ranks 4th with 1 million, and Jane "Life Begins at Man and Gossipy Bickering" has 900K. ...Thoughts on what that says about our popular choice in classic authors?

http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist
http://tournaments.webdiplomacy.net/theghost-ratingslist/ghost-ratings-by-category

Hi guys, I noticed that webDiplomacy is somewhat non-existent on facebook. Shall we do anything to change that?

Some interesting articles, includong a challenge to plan a turkey-austria alliance...
http://www.whiningkentpigs.com/DW/dw123.pdf

Does anyone play it? I am about to mount an expidition up it's learning cliff...

gameID=132903

Anon, 50 point buy-in, 2 day phases. This group has played several games with each other, but we need someone to fill in one spot. Post here if you're interested. This is a pretty good group, so the games have been pretty challenging (we haven't seen a solo yet). As long as you don't have any CDs, I'll PM the password to the first interested player.

gameID=130256

this game is in need of a player for Britain, not sure why they left in such a strong position (10 SC's)

I propose
25 buy-in
3 days/phase

Hi guys. I started the following to set up a competitive game among higher level players. Please join up if you're interested.

gameID=132808

I was thinking about we could create scheduled live games, like monday 9PM CET, or weekdays 6PM ET, and so on.

By demolishing your houses and stealing your land!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3RiMdS7sE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Yy-roIT1A

See inside.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/how-obamas-syria-policy-fell-apart-101704.html?hp=l12

The game was paused for the xmas break, but one of the players never came back to unpause. We're probably going to get a mod to unpause so we can continue - does anyone want the German position? It's not great, but also not over yet.

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=128576