Spyman: the old forum posts were unfortunately removed because the site was having scaling issues- the forum wasn't designed to work at the scale that it had grown to, and the rest of the site was sometimes falling over because of it.

I'm also working on an upgraded forum that won't have this issue. As you can see, there's quite a bit to do- the dev team is hiring :)

I can see that. I am very impressed. I wish I knew enough real programming to be useful. All I know is VBA and some SQL. It's all in php and SQL is that right?

Yup!

So happy i can now tell traditionalists to go pound salt if they join games without this feature enabled and attempt to be snooty about it. Love this!

Hooray?

:)

A_Tin_Can: We really talked about this before? Oh, you're talking about the stand-off X's which show up sometimes where they're not supposed to. I totally forgot about that. I guess that this is somewhat related.

I pointed out something else in that thread, which did affect the text list of orders. Take a look at the thread again when you have a moment. According to Kestas' post in that thread, the errors I noticed are independent of the adjudicator.

Does this mode also prevent press during pauses?

While we are on the topic of "press" I would love to see a public press option that matches the old PBM process. Press in the form (more or less) of "press releases" can be entered during a phase and all such press is published at the end of the phase. The idea being to use press as part of a future strategy rather than trying to publicly negotiate in the current phase. It makes for interesting game play and (often) interesting "story lines" in the press.

Ohh, I like that!

Since we got onto the topic of Convoy paradoxes, how does webdip resolve them all? I only ask since I read this article and am curious now.
http://www.diplom.org/Zine/W1995A/Tactics/section3.htm#ConvoyParadox

Webdip resolves the convoy paradoxes the way that the DATC recommends (which is common). You can see the choices made at:

http://webdiplomacy.net/datc.php

How about an option, that if enabled by the person setting up the game, allowed spectators to post either in the global or a separate spectators chat box ?

But spectators cannot be anonymous

We've thought about having a peanut gallery mode where spectators can post (but the posts can't be seen by the players until after the game). It'd be challenging to make that fit with CDs and the metagaming rules, though - since spectators might be able to take over positions after reading the press.

It's an interesting idea, and something worth thinking about.

Lets just allow cheating. itd make the mods lives easier.

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Dang. I was trying to avoid rereading the DATC. :/

I <3 the DATC. I have a copy under my pillow.

A_Tin_Can: Right, as Peregrine Falcon pointed out, the quirk I noticed way back in 2009 was related to a convoy paradox. But Kestas seemed to think that the errors with regard to reporting whether orders failed were a bigger issue than just convoys. He started off his reply with "The way the system detects whether orders were successful is a bit shoddy", so it does sound like fixing this might require a lot of work. Anyway, I'm just trying to be helpful and give you stuff to work on since I know you've accomplished a lot.

@ATC: there is another press change/variant i'd like to see.

Allow players send a single messages which goes to multiple people. Like CC-ing in emails. Also allow a BCC: so you can be a little under-handed and secretly include a fourth party in you conversations...

It think this is standard in email for a reason, and it is like have a three person conversation in face-2-face games. (Or more than 3)

And i think the limitations of webdips current messaging system are technological in nature, not an advantage to gameplay.