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obiwanobiwan (248

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15 Feb 10 UTC

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The Unluckiest Man/Woman Ever

In Politics and World Affairs, who just conked out? In Sports, who's the biggest goat ever? In Music, who hit the sourest note? Acting, all the rest... for those categories- who's fortune's fool forever?

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abgemacht (1076

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15 Feb 10 UTC

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LIVE!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21697

5 min phases
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WTA

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13 Feb 10 UTC

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Ranking of web-based Diplomacy websites V

NEW: Use of http://compete.com/!
For some prior statistics, see threadID=477664, threadID=489951, threadID=513357 and threadID=535114

JECE (1253 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

I currently consider statistics from www.alexa.com/siteinfo for BOUNCED (www.dipbounced.com), phpDiplomacy (www.phpdiplomacy.net), www.stabbeurfou.org, PLAYdiplomacy (www.playdiplomacy.com), WorldLeaders the Game (www.worldleadersthegame.com) and webDiplomacy (webdiplomacy.net). From now on I will also include dip.xbsd.kr and goonDiplomacy (goondip.com).

I now am also including statistics for PLAYdiplomacy (www.playdiplomacy.com), WorldLeaders the Game (www.worldleadersthegame.com) and webDiplomacy (webdiplomacy.net) from http://siteanalytics.compete.com/.

I do not rank Facebook Diplomacy or PBEM websites primarily because I don't believe it is possible to do so for most of them. Because of this, I am only considering web-based implementations of Diplomacy on websites dedicated to that purpose.

JECE (1253 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

Alexa on its Alexa Traffic Rank:
"
[BOLD]Alexa Traffic Rank[ENDBOLD]
A measure of a website’s popularity.

The rank is calculated using a
combination of average daily visitors
and pageviews over the past 3 months.
The site with the highest combination
of visitors and pageviews is ranked #1.

[BOLD]Updated Daily[ENDBOLD]
"

compete on its Compete Rank:
"
The Compete Rank is based on Unique Visitors and does not consider page views or number of visits made to the site. Rank is often used as a compliment to Unique Visitors to provide a relative metric that shows the significance of a site.

For example, in March 2007, eBay attracted 75M people, which ranked as the third largest site on the Internet within the U.S.
"

JECE (1253 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

Alexa Traffic Rank:
webDiplomacy: 116,815
PLAYdiplomacy: 198,329
worldLeaders the Game: 602,967
goonDiplomacy: 1,737,407
www.stabbeurfou.org: 2,696,904
BOUNCED: 4,033,914
phpDiplomacy: 4,630,037
dip.xbsd.kr: 6,914,538

Compete Rank:
PLAYdiplomacy: 355,233
webDiplomacy: 798,437
worldLeaders the Game: 1,610,699

JECE (1253 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

Interesting graph comparing the top three:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/webdiplomacy.net+playdiplomacy.com+worldleadersthegame.com/
And a fishy graph comparing the top two:
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/webdiplomacy.net+playdiplomacy.com+phpdiplomacy.net/
(Those graphs are of Unique Visitors.)

hellalt (24 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

it seems that after a few times that webdiplomacy.net reached and surpassed playdiplomacy.com, playdiplomacy.com is steadily ahead. I don't get it. Why? What does this site has to offer more?

jimgov (219 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

If you google diplomacy game, the first hit is a wikipedia entry. The second is playdiplomacy. This site is not on the first page. Maybe this has something to do with it?

jimgov (219 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

Also, diplomacy online had playdiplomacy first, and this site second.

figlesquidge (2131 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

jim: that's the main issue yes. That place was started by a SEO expert (Search Engine Optimisation), which basically means he knows all the tricks to get yourself up the rankings.
What would be really great would be if people would advertise this place on their blogs, tweets etc.

jimgov (219 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

I agree. We need to get the word out. I found this site first and fell in love. I tried playdiplomacy and found it a little...unwieldy. Not as user friendly as here. And then, right after I joined, the site operator posted that he wasn't going to keep the site up and they started talking about raising money and making it a pay site. I just walked away.

figlesquidge (2131 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

He's been doing that right since they started jim :P

jimgov (219 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

So why are people actually playing there? This site is much more user friendly, IMO. And it isn't even close.

figlesquidge (2131 )
13 Feb 10 UTC

Firstly, I'm not sure how many people *ARE* actually playing there - can't see anything of hte site without signing up. Also it is quite possible that some of his data is faked, or are self-hits.
Having said that, I think one big issue is finding this place. Once you're here you're unlikely to leave (for another diplomacy site), and here we even talk about the alternatives. However, I strongly doubt their forum has conversations about the relative merits of this place!

pastoralan (100 )
15 Feb 10 UTC

As a new player...yeah, I found playdiplomacy from the Wikipedia article and joined a game. Their server has been only barely functional, so the moves are all running 3-4 days behind schedule. I started looking for alternatives and found this. Like it lots better, and I won't be joining another game at playdiplomacy.

flashman (2274 )
15 Feb 10 UTC

Don't we have SEO's on this site? I can think of one but I won't volunteer him [sic] without his permission...

JECE (1253 )
15 Feb 10 UTC

Alexa still has webDiplomacy doing better, by quite a bit. Perhaps it is more accurate, as it combines "average daily visitors and pageviews over the past 3 months", compared to 'compete', which only considers "Unique Visitors and does not consider page views or number of visits". If Google takes you to PLAYdiplomacy first, then that could explain the huge discrepency. I think wedDiplomacy is more active, but what do I know?

I actually found this site first here: http://www.freewaregenius.com/2008/05/15/an-overview-of-free-turn-based-strategy-and-war-games/. I didn't know other sites existed until I saw the Wikipedia article.

Chrispminis (916 )
15 Feb 10 UTC

JECE, that's interesting. I remember way back when I was investigating multi-accounting, only to find that they were actually accounts owned by employees of the site who were working on that article. Takes me back. I was wondering if that added bit of publicity would bring people.

JECE (1253 )
15 Feb 10 UTC

Chrispminis: Well it brought me, and I don't regret my joining. This site is awesome! :-)

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13 Feb 10 UTC

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Cool idea (from playdiplomacy)

All of this talk about play diplomacy led me back to their site. I was poking around the forums, and found something that we could use here.

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10 Feb 10 UTC

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A Horrible horrible example of PPSC mentality in a WTA game

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=17552&msgCountryID=0

no wonder MM got to first place... is this your secret MM? honestly - I am so disgusted by this... just fuming.

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13 Feb 10 UTC

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Touch Diplomacy

Want to try out a variant of Classic Diplomacy?

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15 Feb 10 UTC

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another live gunboat for maniacs

gameID=21683
40

wta anon 5min/turn
20 mins to join

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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live fucking gunboat fuckers

gameID=21659
wta anon 40

5min/turn

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Has anyone ever actually finished a World Game?

The title says it all.... has anyone honestly ever finished a world game? If so hook me up with a hyperlink, im curious

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15 Feb 10 UTC

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One more for a 10 hour game

Join
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21680

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Idea for mod communication

I know that, for the World Cup, we are having all kinds of trouble getting people to respond to their emails and PMs, causing all kinds of waiting. And I know that the mods have to try to get with people here and there about different things.

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15 Feb 10 UTC

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Live gunboat!!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21680

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Live wta Gunboat

Valentine's Gunboat of Love
gameID=21655
40

wta anon 5min/turn
30 mins to join / Join NOW!

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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JOIN THE RIGHT STUFF< ONLY ! MORE

JOIN THE RIGHT STUFF< ONLY NEED 1 MORE PLAYER!

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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WHERE ARE YOU?

Generally speaking, where are each of the members? Just thought it might be interesting to see how far-flung we all are (or are not) from each other.

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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New gunboat game

gameID=21642 35

, wta, anon. Starts in 30.

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greenpanreus (0

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Need speed

Anyone fancy playing a live game? It starts in 6 mins.

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Live game this morning-

anyone interested in one?

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Sunday Morning Live,10mins

I love skipping church to play Diplomacy.

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Gunboat live in 5 minutes..

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21628

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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gunboat live 5 min interval

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21631

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Carpysmind (1423

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Blatant Multi Gaming\Players

Here they are . . .

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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game!!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21625

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Live Gunboat

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21622
Need two more real quick.

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jeromeblack (129

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Live Game in 30 mins

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21620

Join Up!!

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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Public Press game

http://www.webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21589
Created a public press, anon game.

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13 Feb 10 UTC

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Gunboatter

Public chat for smack talk

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LJ TYLER DURDEN (334

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13 Feb 10 UTC

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goonDip Games to Join

A Crowded game still needs four people and a Chaos game needs around thirty. Links inside.

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BusDespres (182

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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ONLY 3 MORE PEOPLE FOR LIVE GAME!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21610

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BusDespres (182

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14 Feb 10 UTC

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LIVE GAME! LATE NIGHT

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=21610

it will be fun

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