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We're playing our first game, and a player left. Can anything be done to speed up turns since he ain't logging in? When will he dissapear as a player, when all his provinces are conquered at the end of Autumn? How many votes for Draw/Cancel are requiered? Anything else I should know on the situation? Thanks in advance, guys!
The login page on vdiplomacy says to enter your webdeplomacy usrnm and pswd, but then it says my account does not exist. Yet, I see names that I recognize on that forum.
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=5642 Come on and join the chaos variant! Standard map, with 34 players, one per SC! Total randomness! 1-1-2-3-5-8-13!!!
There is a Tournament about to start on vdiplomacy.net called the whittle down tournament which needs players! The basic format is that the tourney starts on the site's largest map and players get eliminated from each round and the survivors pass to smaller and smaller maps. For more details, and to sign up, go to http://vdiplomacy.net/forum.php?viewthread=19614#19614
Serious Diplomacy Question- How nice should you be to your allies?
I am a relatively new player to Diplomacy, and often engage in (obviously) diplomacy with other players. However, I seem to find myself being to nice to my supposed allies. When dealing with allies, how nice is too nice? Thanks.
Hey, I'm having trouble getting the last few games together. I apologize to those whose games are being constantly postponed. I need two volunteers minimum to keep the tournament going. It's only 1 or 2 games folks, can anyone step up?
I've been playing here for about 2 years, but started playing at playdiplomacy about a month ago, and I have to say, they have a better interface, and a community who can actually hold an intelligent discussion. See inside for more reasoning. I hope to see some of you better players over there soon!
When you have allies like this in a game, what do you think is better diplomacy? winning the game, or upholding your good word as a player? example is this very game. could have won, wish you could see the chat. excellent diplomacy and communication here. gameID=79078
Personally I distinguish between strategical and tactical alliances. A strategical alliance that works toward a common goal can be rewarded with a draw. A tactical alliance that includes cooperation on a lot of moves with no goal but to expand can be terminated in the blink of an eye.
My priorities are win, draw, survive, defeat, shrinking draws whenever possible as much as possible. Giving away some of my share of the victory for sticking through their imminent defeat to the end doesn't really register much with me.
The answer to the OP is 'it depends'. If you play for the glory of winning and points or GR then go all out for the win, the others will understand that. If you play for enjoyment then drawing a game where you have the lock on win is fine. I have done this myself many times and enjoy it more when I give up the certain win. There is no right or wrong way to play this game contry to what some people will tell you.
Sandgoose: Certainly, if cooperation was outstanding all game, I think there is little point in stabbing at the end. There are always future games, you know, and if you have a reputation of screwing things up at the last second it backfire down the line. Look at a game like this: gameID=12882. Beleive it or not, Turkey and I were allied from Spring 1901, and meticulously staged all hostile actions against each other throughout the game. It worked amazingly, and proves that even a Turkey-Austria-Hungary alliance can be pulled off. Why would I, after over two decades of total trust and loyalty, stab?
I'm tired of going through it. I'm tired of people acting like it. I'm tired of people who are full of it. Not that anyone on this site can tell it apart from something comedic.
Since I am now a Masters sub I cannot take my one month planned vacation. Sorry everyone who looked forward to it. But I HAVE decided to limit my trolling comments to one a week or less.
http://video.msnbc.msn.com/martin-bashir/46152472/#46152472 1. I thought you hated all Obama's spending...how much would a MOON COLONY cost? 2. Seriously...seriously, this is what you're resorting to now? 3. I like Star Trek, would love to hsee this happen, someday, but...no, I'm sorry--does ANYONE take this guy seriously? (Or a Moon Colony by 2020, for that matter, assuming the technology did exist, could it be built?)
What does everybody think of Dutch policies? Saw some talk show about it and even though it was in dutch (which I am) I still could understand "Yes minister" better...
Not sure if this goes here, or I'm supposed to email this to the mods, but this game needs to be unpaused: http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=73347
Anyone dare take me up on the challenge? I'm hoping to at least see The Czech, Lando, Eden, jmeyers, Barn3tt, Frank, Troodonte, Babak, Eden, Lando, rdrivera, Dunecat, uclabb, Eden, fulhamish, Troodonte, and Lando.
I think it would be a good idea to allow unrated games. After all, not all Chess games are ELO-rated for example. A simple way to do it would be to make a new variant, say "Classic-unrated". Then, adjust the GR program so that it excludes all games of that variant.
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