How many different diplomacy ratings are there? I'm assuming the highest I've seen is Diplomat

I just took over England in civil disorder. It says that I haven't turned in orders but I don't have any orders to complete.

The most recent official diplomacy rules state:

"Disrupting a convoy. Dislodgment of a fleet in a convoy causes the convoy to fail. If a Fleet ordered to convoy is dislodged during the turn, the Army to be convoyed remains in it's original province. An attack on a convoying Fleet, which does not dislodge it, does not affect the convoy."

The phpdiplomacy adjudicator is completely getting this rule wrong. One unsupported fleet on holland disrupted my Yorkshire-Norway convoy for North Sea, and I'm without a first turn build! Alas!

Autumn 1901, Diplomacy: Your fleet at North Sea was attacked by a fleet at Holland, and had to defend itself so couldn't convoy.
Autumn 1901, Diplomacy: The fleet at North Sea isn't accepting the convoy request from the army at Yorkshire, so the convoy order failed.
Autumn 1901, Diplomacy: Your fleet at London attempted to move into English Channel but there was a stalemate.
Autumn 1901, Diplomacy: Your fleet at North Sea was attacked by the fleet at Holland, but sucessfully defended.

How are we getting on with a piece of code to allow draws to be agreed? OR can we already do that somehow?

mutiy has just opend for those who belive in no pact or alliances:)

There seems to be cheats in the game:
This is new italy and we declare war on you
10:59 AM Fool, I've already got everyone around you on your ass!
11:02 AM How bout this, I'll help you out if you fight Austria with Turkey? Sounds like a grand idea to me.
11:45 AM Well, if you were in communication with Turkey, he would have advised we have already made that arrangement
01:10 PM Silly man, I am turkey.
01:11 PM so you are playing 2 countries hmmm must report this

PLS feel free to join!

Do they exist???

and if not, WHY NOT???

no pass come if you wish

As I very often seem to be placed as England, I think that a quick fix should be written in for supporting convoys.
All it would do would be make it that when you can support the unit that is being landed with other units. Thats all, but without it England is signficantly disadvantaged!

An open game has been created. Feel free to join

There are several threads in the forum discussing various implementation-related issues. It's rather difficult to follow the discussion in all of them. I propose we create an open mailing list for these discussions.

Can you, and how do you set a prederence for a power to be played?

So I've noticed that I am not alerted if someone sends me a message in a game which is still active but I have been eliminated. I guess it's not all that important that I read these messages as my country is defeated.

I know this makes no difference to the game, but when you enlarge a map, why is there a patch of white at the top left of St. Petersburg. Shouldn't this be the sea blue colour?

I am starting a new game with all of the great players of the old (fall, 2006).....however, I am unable to find your email. the games is "the great battle" and the password is our fellow diplomacy player [***********] Sal......

Just a proposal for a later version; some method of communicating with other users outside of a game.
It would make arranging a passworded game between you and people you only know via phpDiplomacy much easier, especially if you're not in any games with them.
There are many other uses too, not least the fact that newbies would be able to contact experienced players outside their own games regarding basic questions.

Why is the same player playing every nation? isnt this a useless game?
which brings me to a question... how do we STOP cheats and multiple accounts????

in one of my games, the "to" box is far too narrow and doesn't show any locations. This is for the retreat phase, where my unit was given the choice (disband or retreat) and there is a vacant, uncontested space for it to go to

Say there's a fleet on Ionian, an army on Apu, and an army on Bulgaria. The army on bulgaria wants to support the army on apu to greece via ionian convoy. Under bulgaria's move supports he can support ionian, serbia, or albany to greece. If Ionian is selected, will that support the army Ionian might convoy?

If it's impossible to support a convoy, that's bad. Even if it is possible to support either of these options in one move, it would be nice to differentiate specifically.

Can I just apologise to those in the games I've been playing - I've been ill for the last week and gone into civil disorder in most of my games.

I tried attacking with my two naval units on one single naval unit. It didn't work out, I did the support I think for both units, should I not have done that? I'm a tad confused.

"Spring 1902, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Tunis's move support wasn't accepted by the unit which support was being given to.
04:12 PM Spring 1902, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Naples's move support wasn't accepted by the unit which support was being given to."

im a noob so maybe there is something obvious im missing?

when it says support from and to?

what country should i have it for attackin and the one for moving and supporting? as ive been rather confused which is which

All the current starting games were password protected, so I started a new one called "Open Game". I hope people join soon!

my army at Venice attempted to move into Trieste but there was a stalemate. Meanwhile the fleet at trieste moved to albania. his unit moved and mine stalemated when i should have moved in on him.....whats up with that?

- "Your fleet at Tunis disrupted the fleet at Tunis's convoy order."
(convoi must have been in ionian sea)

- spelling "Ukraina" in Map but "Ukraine" when giving move orders

I know its what is said when you create a game, but personally I think the forum is now being filled with far too many useless threads about standard new games, making it hard to find the important issues. In my opinion, the only time one should post about a new game is if it has a theme, like the Allies-Axis below, or if its part of a competition etc.
Do others agree, or am I alone?

now open for acrimonious rulers

When trying to move to West. Medit. I got such message:
Autumn 1905, Diplomacy: Your fleet at Tyrrhenian Sea attempted to move
into Western Mediterranean but there was a stalemate.
There was no other fleet or even army who could make stalemate. So it seems like a bug to me. There was also stalemate in Spain (and that could be so).
Game:
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