If only I understood what you are talking about. What screen shots? What if CSteinhardt talks about gunboat games? I believe he play gunboats mostly,or I'm wrong?

Well no, in a gunboat game, of course it would be illegal.

"And what is the address of the adjuticator that everyone uses?"

I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you're asking.

So Mr.Dr. talks about aliens here and you are feeling like answering him? I haven't seen any question here,only philosophy crap as usual from him.

The adjudicator program that everyone talks about. It may be a download, or it may be running on a site. You plug in where the units are and moves and see what happens.

@Split

What?

@jim

Oh, I recommend JDip. http://jdip.sourceforge.net/

Thanks. Is this what you are talking about, CS?

He makes fools out of the whole site's comunity with his crap for 18-th or 19-th time now. And you are buying it..

@Split

You take things much too seriously. You need to calm down.

@jim

I have no idea what CS is talking about. : )

I was just assuming that he was talking about an adjudicator. Obviously, Split thinks he is talking about something else.

I think Split has had a break with reality recently and the men in white coats just haven't caught him yet.

@abge realy? Why he takes part in conversations with the mods about mod's bussines? Is that serious enogh?

@Split

I do not think the mods have a problem with people asking for clarifications on the rules.

@Split - What the fuck are you talking about? Have you actually read this thread?

I can see why Split only plays gunboat games. It's clearly a good decision on his part.

Yeah,especialy with their friends and snitchies.

I do always find it funny when people on this site complain about mod corruption. You do understand that if the mods were actually corrupt, you would be instantly banned for making such statements, right?

Yes,I understand,you can't wait for the day to come.

Dude. Step away from the drugs.

I think people highly overestimate the number of friends I have on this site too. I'm here to play a game, not because I'm a lonely sob trying to bribe people into being friends by giving them favorable treatment.

Yeah. I fucking hate jmo.

JK

Anybody wishing to demand justice please use the appropriate thread to do so. This keeps the forum clean and threads on track.

Well, that got off track quickly. :) Fortunately, I think I've gotten answer to my question, so feel free to carry on with the insults.

I am considering putting effort into building a data-driven tool unlike the things described in this thread. I would want to use this tool to help me to decide what orders to submit in some situations during both gunboat and press games. It would not exploit flaws in the site framework in any way, violate messaging rules, violate confidences, or anything of that nature. Yes, that's intentionally vague, as I suspect describing it further may simply lead to an arms race. So, this is as much as I'm comfortable saying about it at this point.

I was hoping that there might be some guidelines already in place which would help me to figure out whether building it would be a waste of time without triggering said arms race. It would seem that there aren't, so if I do move forward with the idea, it will probably make sense to have a proactive conversation with the mods before using it.

Oh, right, I did say feel free to carry on the with insults. Can I go next?

@Split: I guess when I saw your screen name, combined with some of your posts about English not being a native language, I assumed "Split" referred to your hometown. Does it instead refer to a dissociative disorder?

That is quite interesting. A computer program that can "brute force" the best possible moves in any situation. Like Big Blue in chess, but for Diplomacy.

Tarot cards are illegal, right?

There has been a bit of work on bots that can operate 'in' an adjucator, but i am not aware of recent efforts, even tho if in Math we may find much on Game and Decision Theoey.