Additionally, one should not be able to build units outside the 3 starting supply centres (4 in Russia's case). Should be high priority!

As of now, you can actually capture supply centres in Spring time. This is a major error from the original rules. For instance, France can capture both Spain and Portugal the first year, using only a single army. Bug?

Im sorry if i sound really dumb, but as you may have realised Im new to PHP diplomacy. I know the game, having played the board version before, but i was wondering:
How often are moves processed here !?!
I've looked right through the help pages, but i cant find it. Sorry to those of you to whom this is blindingly obvious, but i thought i'd better find out before i started..!

After orders are submitted and movements are made, we should be allowed to see what moves other countries attempted. In a real game we would be privy to ths knowledge, so it should be available to us here, too.

Okay, holidays are here and I've got around to phpDiplomacy on the todo list. Here's the todo list in order of priority:

- Get rid of the annoying refresh on game pages
- Improved communication, too many people are playing without discussing strategies, which I think is due to the poor messaging system. I'm going to try and improve this so more emphasis is placed on communication
- Game listings, these aren't ideal, games which didn't start because there weren't enough players clutter things up, and games which you were defeated in are still listed in "Your active games"
- Unit creation locations, you can currently create a unit anywhere that you have a supply center, you should only be able to create them in your starting supply centers.
- Retreats, you can currently only retreat to places that you "occupy" (in the sense that you were the last player to occupy that territory), but in the game the restrictions are that the province must not have had a standoff, and the province must not be where the attacker game from. You cannot retreat to these places at the moment, but you also cannot retreat to places you should be able to retreat to.
- Standoffs, at the moment standoffs make the standoff territory unoccupied, and if the territory is a supply center it will belong to no-one. Who occupies the territory shouldn't change after a standoff
- Self dislodgement, you can currently dislodge your own units, but you shouldn't be able to

These are the biggest problems with phpDiplomacy atm as I see it, hopefully I'll be able to sort them out for 0.75

If anyone has any other requests which are fairly small or that you think are important, let me know here.

Regards,

Since I'm being backstabbed in 3 games now, i'm gonna take a pause from this game. I think it's the lowest you can do, and very depressing. If you want to win a game, do it fair, not in a treacherous way.
Luckily there was 1 player whom I could always trust (he'll know whom i'm talking about), thanks for that.

Salmaneser

Will all of these upgrades be made at the same time or rolled out piecemeal? Either way, would you please post each change when it happens? Thanks.

All who want to are welcome to join the game ragnarok

The game's name is new0guy.
Join please?

Anyone is welcome to join poko2.

I've gotten this error several times over the last few days when I try to open this website:

Internal Server Error 500

The website you are trying to reach is temporarily inaccessible.
Please try again in a few seconds.

If the error persists it is most probably caused by a website configuration, which is in conflict with the permissions allowed on the server.

If the error is displayed occasionally it is most probably caused by reaching the allowed usage limits for some server resources.

Please everyone, do not take over any countries in these 2 games. The players have agreed to pause the games until after Turkey Day! Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.

In the game Comrades, it says I have to make an army retreat. However, the army in Trieste wasn't even attacked! In fact, there are no units that could even attack Trieste.

Here's the message from GameMaster:
Your army at Trieste was overwhelmed by an attack from the army
from Budapest, and forced to retreat.

There was no army in Budapest, either.

The bug in the post below, and the bug which was posted about today, I am pretty sure was to do with the locking code.

This is the code which I'm using at the moment:
list($success) = $DATABASE->sql_row("SELECT GET_LOCK('".zeroseventwo_."_gamemaster', 5)");
if ($success == 1) {
$DATABASE->sql_put("BEGIN");
require('gamemaster.php'); // Process any games which require processing.
$DATABASE->sql_put("COMMIT");
$DATABASE->sql_put("SELECT RELEASE_LOCK('".zeroseventwo_."_gamemaster')");
}

I think it should guarentee that only one thread can process a game at a given time, but it wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong about locking so I'd appreciate any input if anyone has experience with this.

The database is in the state it was in around 27 hours ago when the first bug cropped up, MGAM3 has been removed and any moves made after 27 hours ago have been undone.

Sorry about this, hopefully this will sort it out, thanks for your patience,
Kestas

I took over Italy in this game, which was in civil disorder. It was only the first diplo round. Now, I have to disband all my armies, while i didn't loose any land. Is this a bug or what?

Everybody is invited to TheCannon.

Just curious: What user ratings exist beyond Pro and Casual Player?

Everyone is welcome to join poko1.

The game Europe2point0 seems to be in some sort of limbo. It should be advancing to the next turn, instead it says the current turn ends in "Process Pending"

Fleets are not allowed to retreat in to lands or seas that their country was not in previous occupation of. However, there is no way to mark occupation on a sea.. A valid retreat for a Fleet attacked in the Ionian Sea would be to retreat to the Adriatic Sea. However, if NO ONE has previous occupied the Adriatic, retreat there is impossible. This should not be.

I understand why units are not allowed to retreat to the area where they were attacked from, but ANY OTHER OPEN SPACE should be a valid retreat route, whether the unit has been in that space or not and whether that space is marked occupied by another country or not.

Technically, if you are forced to retreat from an area, you could retreat into an open adverse supply center and take it for your own.

The current glitch restricts movement and position far more than it is supposed to.

Is it me, or are Internal Server Errors popping up more frequently?

Comrades, everyone one of you are invited to play the new game, Comrades!

I realize this may be a stupid question... But how do you carry out orders? I can't find any sort of interface to order my units. Basically, how do I tell me units what to do? Or how do I actually PLAY this game?

At Game id=75 [1901 Autumn Move]

Your army at Spain
attempted to move into Marseilles but there
was a stalemate.

And then, Marseilles become an empty region occupied by nobody...
This is definitely a bug?

There was an error message being recieved for a while there. Unfortunately once I started debugging it, only making changes which help me pinpoint the bug, the bug stopped happening.

The bug has something to do with the order management code or unit placement code, as lots of the recent ones have been, and I'll definately be giving all that code a thorough look through before the next version. Thanks,

In the game TanksandShips there are now only 4 remaining players. Everyone has turned orders in however the game has not advanced to the next stage. Is this a bug or do the rules change once 3 players have been eliminated?

Everyone is invited to join the new game, Domination.

Everyone is invited to join the new game, Banter.

1) Any unit that does not actually attempt to move should be able to be supported. Currently a unit must actually "hold" to recieve support and cannot be supported if they "support hold" or "support move". ex. If I control Belgium and Holland I should be able to make them support eachother, required an attack with support on either one to dislodge.

2)Further down in the forum I noticed that you stated official rules state convoying cannot be supported. This is incorrect. What it says is that "support cannot be convoyed". An army being convoyed CAN recieve support so long as the unit doing the support is adjacent to the final destination of the convoy.
Illegal support example -> F English Channel convoys London to Brest
A London to Brest

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