Hip hip hooray!

I feel the same way. It is awesome. Really great community here too.

Agreed, this site has pretty much dominated my time over the last few months :)! Keep up the awesome work Kestas, and thanks so much!

I am always looking for more in a site and want to see a robust and advancing product with development support. New features and things to look forward to.
Just restless always I guess.

Way to go!

i see that Chrisp is having fun giving praise to himself

you know Edi, you're the kind of guy that i would want on an R&D team for any project

Thanks all :-) check out http://phpdiplomacy.net/credits.php for a (hopefully) full list of contributors (as of 0.82)

Edi in that case you may be pleased to know I've started on 0.83

What I am looking at is that since I joined the new feature has been the introduction of the /pause /draw feature.
There appears to be many more things that are done on different sites and potentials for new features and aspects.

Yeah, but honestly, I think the site is nice and elegant and I would hate to see it over clogged with features.

At the moment, I'd like to see a more GUI based mechanism for drawing and pausing. Maybe two buttons somewhere (under the map?) that have pause/unpause and draw/no draw sort of thing going on. Just pushing it would send an announcement on global that you've called for a pause or a draw or unpause or withdrawn your support of a draw. As well, have the ability of voting to exclude yourself from a draw so that an obvious outcome doesn't have to be played through just for a formally recognized draw.

It's a small thing, but I don't feel like the whole /command thing works well here. It's not so apparent to new users that the feature is available.

I'm still waiting to do French translation. =)

I am not addicted to Diplomacy. I can quit any time I want, I just don't want to. <_<

There are several French Websites running Diplomacy
one of the more interesting approaches is to mix languages on the same website so that Player A can get his results in English and Player B can play in the same game and get his results in French. This is only done at
www.stabbeurfou.org.

> What I am looking at is that since I joined the new feature has
> been the introduction of the /pause /draw feature.
Actually 0.81 and 0.82 came out since you joined, so I think you're minimizing it a bit, but no I don't usually develop during semesters except to add things that are required (like the draw & pause commands, mod CP improvements etc). The largest releases 0.75 and 0.8 were done around this time in the last 2 years because it's the summer hols here and work isn't as mentally draining as study :-)

> There appears to be many more things that are done on
> different sites and potentials for new features and aspects.
Maybe I'm misinterpreting, but I get the impression from your recent posts that you want phpDip to become a stabbeurfou clone.
There are definitely features which could be added here (and perhaps stabbeurfou could be made more beginner friendly), but each site fills its own niche

Making either mimic the other would defeat the purpose of either site e.g. Text-based vs generated orders, e-mail style messaging vs IM/forum style, committing to a tournament vs joining individual games, waiting lists vs selecting a game, etc. These are decisions which reflected what sort of site we wanted to build, not right/wrong

If stabbeurfou suits you and has the features you want then great, but we don't all look at stabbeurfou as the prototype of an ideal Diplo site, just because we have different goals


While I'm writing about this, do these sites with many more things being done really need this much advertising, especially here? :-P It seems to be getting a bit excessive
No other web-diplo site seems to do this, I've even had a stabberfou plug in the help forum in phpDip's Sourceforge project page :-| No idea what they were browsing around there for


> At the moment, I'd like to see a more GUI based
> mechanism for drawing and pausing. Maybe two
> buttons somewhere (under the map?) that have
> pause/unpause and draw/no draw sort of thing going on.
I'm not sure, I'm always surprised to find that people don't know there's a large map because they didn't recognize the icon below the map right now, I'm not sure if a clear icon could be made at that size
The commands were a rushed fix though, and something graphical would be better

> I'm still waiting to do French translation. =)
Yeah translations and variants are the two features which are always at the end of the todo list :-(

I want to join the chorus of players who praise the people responsible for this site, not least Kestas who I sense is the Don Corleone of phpdiplomacy. A tip of the hat to you gents for developing and maintaining a site that continually occupies several hours of my day almost every day, much to the detriment of my work, my social relations etc. ;) I need to get a life but phpdiplomacy is in the way, unfortunately...

I'm also joining the chorus... very well developed site and nice community. Thanks Kestas & others involved! :)

D.

Let me restate some points so that I am not understood.
I GREATLY appreciate the efforts at the development here.
It is a wonderful achievement by Kestas and others.

When it comes to hobby services I am VERY GREEDY I want it all.
I want to see that the concept of competition drives to provide the bettering of all the products/services in the hobby. Clones is not what I am getting at.
Differences can be had in things such as
1, map displays different colors different languages
2, community scoring/ranking,
3. tournaments and games offered,
4. game entry and creation restrictisons
5. Variants supported either same board (Gunboat/Anonymous/Wilson/Escalation/Chaos/8 player whatever)
or different board configurations such as Youngstown/World/1901/Colonial
6. Communication ability between members not in the same game
7. policy on Identification
8. policy on gamemanship
9. availability of an GM to make delay and other policies including an Artificial Intelligence for missed moves
10. Different NMR and CD policies
11. Prize support for tournaments and or Demonstration/ShowCase games

Just to name a few

However Features of service, such as

1. optional email notifications,
2. full written reporting of orders such as retreats and builds
3. NMR retreat and build NMR's designations
4. retaining correspondence in game
5. retaining and accessing correspondence in forum
6. optional map icons on an individual basis (not just game wide at creation)
7. Different deadline structures that can be automated such as a M-W-F or Tuesday and Thursdays

These are things that I would like to see in all sites.
It is sort of like the automobile industry... I want everyone to have factory warranties, I want everyone to over a range of colors, I want everyone to have cars that fit a national safety criteria etc.

Like I said, call me greedy or demanding, I just want every site to be the best that they can so that the differences are focused on options with a high level of core expectation to the hobby.

Actually... these are points so that I am not MISunderstood... then again it is Diplomacy and maybe being 'not understood' has some advantage somewhere.

Ask not what phpdiplomacy can do you, but what you can do for phpdiplomacy.

@Kestas - How much disk space do you need to host the site - we may (only may) have some spare when we move servers?

Thanks to Keatas. I would by an beer for if I could.

@Kestas - I have 60 GB or so available as long as its less than 2000 GB per month transfer. If you want it email me at [email protected] and I'll set it up.