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BarryChuckle (100 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Feature Request
Could a feature be added to allow the games lists be sorted by a choice of criteria?

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jman777 (407 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
What is real, and what isn't?
discuss
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Nadji (898 D)
30 Jun 09 UTC
500
500 points each: http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11887
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Akroma (967 D)
30 Jun 09 UTC
what the FUCK is that thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2vXumcM8Ok

warning: gross
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Herbert (145 D)
30 Jun 09 UTC
Venice > Tuscany
Is it possible for a Fleet to go to Tuscany from Venice (Italia) ?
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chtalleyrand (345 D)
30 Jun 09 UTC
yeah, CD again
France, 5 supply centers, good position
24 h turns
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11371
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obiwanobiwan (248 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Help.....
League C1's games are all paused, have been for more than a week, five of us have unpaused, can we just start the damn games again? ;)
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czechveck (311 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Gunboat Bohemian Style
A new gunboat game is forming. 24 hrs per turn, 51 points to buy in. Gunboat enthusiasts only - no press.
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shaddow~san (100 D)
30 Jun 09 UTC
JOIN WORLD DOMINATION!!!!
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11875
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Glorious93 (901 D)
25 Jun 09 UTC
Michael Jackson - dead?
There are reports he's died...
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jbalcorn (429 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
2 more needed
For live/very fast game
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SirLoseALot (441 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
HELP ADMIN /MODERATOR
need help on game: 11840 A) it built 2 armies for me B) I know I asked for 2 fleets and 1 army C) I saw ALL THREE and it built 2 armies. D) 1 is correct, 1 is wrong, 1 is missing. . .HURRY, move about to change in a few hrs
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chese79 (568 D)
27 Jun 09 UTC
Reasons or taking over a CD
I can understand taking over for a CD if there is a chance of survival and even understand jerk multi-accounters to to mess with the game(although don't like it). But why would someone takeover for a country with one or less sc and then CD? Is there a rationale for this or is this just a multiaccounter that cannot be identified yet?

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rlumley (0 DX)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC vs Mac?
I bet Diplomacy players on average are more likely to be PC users than average. I don't know why this is, it's just a sheer guess. Which do you use?

I'm a PC myself.
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I'm a PC
WRB (2664 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mac
Farmerboy (280 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mac
chtalleyrand (345 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC
groverloaf (1381 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mac at home, PC at work.
Mathias (100 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC ftw, you cant play Half-Life 2 on a Mac
PyroMancer (114 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC
g01df1ng3r (2821 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mac
thejoeman (100 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC now, but im thinking about switching to a mac. any thoughts?
Gobbledydook (1389 D(B))
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC
Chalks (488 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC.

@thejoeman, stick with PC if you plan on ever building/modding your current rig. Switch to mac if you don't play a huge number of games and have a few extra bucks to burn. For everything aside from games, windows / Mac have virtually the same functionality. Macs just look prettier.
Chalks (488 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
incidentally, Macs ARE PCs. I'm assuming that "windows machine" is meant by "PC" though.
rlumley (0 DX)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC only technically means Personal Computer anymore...
Pandarsenic (1485 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Windows Laptop. Gamer, so.... :I
akilies (861 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
@ rlumley you would be correct in saying that there are more PC(windows) users. This is true because there are more PC users in the world, so it only makes sense.

@thejoeman, i agree with Chalks on this for the most part. if you do have a couple extra bucks laying around and you don't mind losing some game options go with the mac. they do look prettier, though the new macbooks look a lot like the average PC.
also there are no viruses as of now for mac, at least no threatening ones. mostly cause with the ratio of PC to Mac, why write a virus for mac when you could infect so many more using PC.

Oh, and i'm a Mac. though i can and have used just about everything and if you can use one you should be able to figure out another, it isn't that hard.
EmperorJake (200 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Macbook+windows pc+linux media server
figlesquidge (2131 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Windows (grr) but it openSuse all the way!
Mr. Pinguin (344 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
I've always used PCs, (well, I have a fair bit of experience with Macs via work, and less so via friends, but I've never even considered buying one myself).
And to whoever wants the opinion of an anonymous man on the internets.. I would almost never recommend going for the Mac.

If you have 'extra bucks to burn' (which is the nice way of saying that Macs are overpriced), get a better PC. My ASUS laptop is very pretty, at least as pretty as most macs imo, and it has far more features (and is more powerful for its price) than any of the Mac laptops I've seen.

I lub lub lub my Vista laptop. (Vista, for the record, turned out to be really great. It feels alot like XP except they made all of the machine's activities more transparent and more intuitive, and it's even more stable).

Finally, I have to say that from my experience (mostly running funky commercial and/or privatel made software for molecular biology stuff), Macs are no more stable than Windows machines, and probably less. The people who write the programs seem to like Macs more, for what that's worth (i.e. the Mac versions generally have a gui and I'm forced to use text commands), but I no longer trust Mac's with my data. I've seen various iterations of Mac OS lock up under high processing load at least as often as Windows 98 used to.
kestasjk (64 DMod(P))
28 Jun 09 UTC
Windows PCs here, and I totally agree about the Mac/PC distinction being an invention of Apple marketing. Even Jobs refers to both as "PCs" in interviews
kestasjk (64 DMod(P))
28 Jun 09 UTC
(I do still prefer FreeBSD/Linux for servers though)
DarioD (2326 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mac (with parallels + XP on for games)
kestasjk (64 DMod(P))
28 Jun 09 UTC
By the way analytics says we're 82% Windows, 12% Mac, and 4% linux (and 1% iPhone)
diplomat61 (223 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
My feeling is that (on-line) Dip players are _less_ likely to use (Windows) PC than average.

Indeed, if you look at the answers above you will see 9:5 Windows:Mac (where specified, I counted the "home" answer) which is a notably higher than the Mac market share (8% in US, 3% global) quoted here: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/02/mac-market-share.ars recently.

Personally I use Windows for work, Windows for games and Mac for home entertainment (hooked up to satellite dish, syncing to Apple TV in the lounge).
BigZombieDude (1188 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Im lucky enough to have both at home and i prefer using the Mac. Im not much of a 'PC' gamer as consoles are that much easier to deal with so i dont miss anything in using the Mac. I bought the laptop for left 4 dead as i just had to play it.
Glorious93 (901 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
PC here. I've never really used a mac...
Pandarsenic (1485 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Mr. Pinguin: Awesome, I also have an ASUS laptop.
9 PCs in the house, 1 Mac for dev purposes only
DrOct (219 D(B))
28 Jun 09 UTC
At home Macs, (and a very old Mac with Ubuntu on it, and a less old, PC that I'm trying to fix, and then also run Ubutuntu on). At work I use a Windows PC because that's what they have there.

For my money, Mac's are worth the little bit of extra money. I MUCH prefer the MacOS to Windows, and since the hardware platform is basically the same these days, I find them to be more versatile, since they can run both MacOS and Windows.

My laptop is set up to dual boot, so when I need to run Windows for something (not very often but sometimes some games and other things) I can do that very easily. My desktop isn't currently set up to dual boot but that's just because I haven't gotten around to setting it up.

You also have virtualization options a plenty to run both Mac OS and Windows (or Linux!) at the same time (though with some limitations), including Virtual Box, which while somewhat more limited than other for pay options like VMWare Fusion and Parallels, is free and is coming along nicely. (My Laptop is also set up with Virtual Box and a copy of OpenSolaris that I've just been messing around with a bit here and there).

So, yes Mac's are somewhat more expensive, but personally I find them to be quite well worth the extra money (there's also the fact that in general Mac's are useful longer than PC's are, so you don't have to buy a new one quite so often, (This isn't quite as true as it used to be, but I still find it to be the case) and if you want to sell them, they tend to retain their resale value somewhat better than PC's, so again you can get a bit of a break on the "Apple Tax").
DrOct (219 D(B))
28 Jun 09 UTC
@Kestasjk - I would submit that it is possible that the site statistics might not quite match up with what kind of user people "consider themselves." Because of work I'm on this site far more often on a PC than a Mac, but I consider myself to be a Mac user (still I do find statistics like that fairly interesting).
@DrOct - Finally, I was reading this whole thread wondering if I was the only dual booter! Difference for me is mine was Windows based that I added Leopard to, cheaper :P I just lucked out on compatible hardware when I saw that it was only around 130 something.

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Akroma (967 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
GFDT 2008 - Round 2 - Game 1‏ needs a replacement
Germany with 7 centers, very strong position against france.
Any interested players, please contact thewonderllama.

also, I would welcome it if a mod pauses this. a CD with 7 centers in the middle of the action is just too disruptive
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jbalcorn (429 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Pandasun? Your live game is waiting
If anyone knows who Pandasun is, let him know the live game is waiting for him.
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greendjinn (0 DX)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Standoff question
Can someone (particularly if they understand the computer code here) help me to understand the outcome of the following:
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Robthezombie (100 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
quick game?!?!
comeon people, plez!
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cteno4 (100 D)
26 Jun 09 UTC
I have sick pleasures.
Today I went to my local CD store to special order a CD, and a hipster girl took the order for "Bax String Quartets nos. 1 and 2 by the Maggini Quartet. It's on the Naxos record label."

She just cried HELP.
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djbent (2572 D(S))
29 Jun 09 UTC
live or very quick game today?
looking to start a game today that is either live or with everyone agreeing to finalize as quickly as possible. phase between 12 and 24. if it's live we'll set 10 or 15 minute turns.
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airborne (154 D)
27 Jun 09 UTC
4 replacement players needed
In 2 tourney games
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trip (696 D(B))
29 Jun 09 UTC
game for weekend warriors
details inside...
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knulle (100 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Hello everyone
I'm totally new to Diplomacy; I've never played a single game before, but it looks interesting. (My main interest in board games tend to be of the abstract strategy kind: go, amazons, hex, havannah, twixt, etc.) Two questions:
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gjdip (1065 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Good Italy up for grabs
Apply within.
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Geofram (130 D(B))
28 Jun 09 UTC
Please unpause, draw, or delete this game.
I just want this game to finish.
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Tolstoy (1962 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Unpause Request
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=9851

This game has been paused for almost two months now. Everyone has voted to unpause except for one person, who hasn't logged on since May 10th.
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vexlord (231 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
draugnar
id like to play a game w u. http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11858. its only 5 pts you can afford it
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marestyle (185 D)
28 Jun 09 UTC
Support me! ;-)
One quick question: If I build an FLEET in Venice, can that fleet SUPPORT my army in Trieste, while still being in Venice?
Fleet (in VEN) -- (support) --> Army (in Trieste)
Can it be done, my lords, can it be done?! ;-)
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saulberardo (2111 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
new game 101pts 24hours...
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11859
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zjh47 (100 D)
29 Jun 09 UTC
Low pot
http://phpdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=11861
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