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27 Dec 06 UTC

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unit placement

I don't know if it was mentioned before but I gave an order to place a unit in a home center and after finalize it gives the messege do not create a unit this turn. Is it a bug or something?

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27 Dec 06 UTC

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Joining Games

I've joined about... 5 different New Games, and I've always been the same nation. Is this happening to everyone, or is it just a bad coinsidence? =/

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26 Dec 06 UTC

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Posting forum in a game

Sorry for this simplistic question, I have just joined up today and have joined several games. My question is this: If I sent a post during a game using the forum to a specific person, can everyone see it or just the person I sent it to? Thank you and apologies if this has been asked/answered.

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17 Dec 06 UTC

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Active Players

Please post here IF YOU ARE ACTIVE. it is becoming really anoying when a game starts and one player decides not to play, delaying the game by 48 hrs. This thread is intended for all active players to know who else is active.
Thankyou for replying.

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25 Dec 06 UTC

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Bug

It looks like for the past 3-4 hours there has been a bug in the pregame code, which resolved itself as I went to fix it somehow.

In 0.75 the gamemaster is separate from the main script, and bugs in games are isolated and allow other games to be processed, so hopefully bugs which bring the whole thing down will be a thing of the past

Sorry for the inconvenience

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24 Dec 06 UTC

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What is this?

Error updating order: The new order is invalid: The specified territory isn't occupied by you.

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24 Dec 06 UTC

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Msg alert

What would be great when you're viewing your list of current games is a star next to those that have begun a new phase or have new posts.
Also the ingame forums should have a new post icon if a topic has been added to.

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23 Dec 06 UTC

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Christmas truce?

Could we maybe have the site paused from Christmas Eve to Boxing Day? I certainly don't want to log on to keep my games going - I want to spend the time with my family. What does anyone think?

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23 Dec 06 UTC

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Automatic refresh

Every time I enter a game, the page starts to refresh automatically every 3 seconds, which gets a little annoying. Is it only me? (and if it isn't, can it be fixed?)

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21 Dec 06 UTC

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Not following traditional ruleset?

In a game I'm in France grabbed Spain and Portugal in 01 with 1 army. In the board game rules, a previously unowned SC has to be occupied in the fall to count as captured.

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22 Dec 06 UTC

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New Game

Hey, i've started a new game, it's my first time playing online, so please come and join!

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smileyjoseph (100

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21 Dec 06 UTC

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civil disorder?

When a country is shown as being in civil disorder, I know this means the player's left the game, but how do they do that? There are a few games I'd like to leave.

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19 Dec 06 UTC

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Ideas Thread - Only post your ideas for improvements

Be able to send an invitation email from the site. So you can type non members email addresses in which gives them a link to the game you've created, auto gives them a password based on the email address and asks them to create a user name.
Downside would be could phpDiplomacy cope with the huge growth?

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20 Dec 06 UTC

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Bug list ?

Hello,

Is there a bug list somewhere ? (I don't find it on sourceforge) What is the procedure to submit a bug ?

In this game: http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/board.php?gid=154 Austria lost the TRI supply center after a stalemate.

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20 Dec 06 UTC

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New Game

Hey, I just started a new game. =) Please join! =D

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20 Dec 06 UTC

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Power selection

Is there some kind of logic behind who you are selected to be? So far I have been England twice, France twice and Germany twice. :)

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14 Dec 06 UTC

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Lost Passwords

Is there currrently a way of resending lost passwords? The player "Fart" had his password email put into spam and deleted, and now has no way of logging on at all. If there isn't a way to do this, I feel that it would be a valuable addition to the site.

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figlesquidge (2131

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16 Dec 06 UTC

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More comments...

1) The whole site claims to be HTML4.1, but the game listing fail the W3C validation test
2) Please can you add a resign button. It would allow people who want to leave games to do so without their empire being wrecked for whoever tries to take over. Not a hard upgrade, just copy across some of the code from the script that sets an empire as in civil unrest.
3) I know its a break from the game, but i think that retreats should stay as they are. This is because, you can currently surround a unit, and attack it with three units, and yet it can then run away to one of your other nations. In a real battle, they would be followed. Basically, what im saying is that giving the ability to retreat to any free uncontested square allows players to make another move when those who 'won' their battles dont...

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06 Dec 06 UTC

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Delelte posts

Is it possible to delete posted messages in a game? If you've sent it to wrong receiver? :D

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16 Dec 06 UTC

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Join Game

I made a new game just now, ot tp;d me to post a thread telling people to join

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15 Dec 06 UTC

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Unit creation phase bug

Hi! Dunno wether this has been posted or not, but a country should be automatically "done" on this phase if it has no supply centers, or has them all occupied.
In one of my games, a country owns 2 spaces on the map, none of which is a supply center and the player is not 'readied' yet. I've seen this happen before

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10 Dec 06 UTC

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A few ideas

sorry if I seem a bit foreward, or the ideas have already been presented.
1. Would it be plausible to organise the forum into sections? these would primarily include ideas and bugs.

2. along the same lines, will some form of forum moderator be installed, and the idea of editing posts?

3. How about being able to create 'player groups', where group of players who know each other could interact, and assign games to that particular group, so that players in a game will know each other. I know that the password option is already a good way for doing this, and for the moment it works as there are few members. However, as the number of active players grows, there will be too many 'joinable games' on display, and that can become confusing.
"Comments please..." (sorry to use your phrase figle, but it seemed appropriate.)

Chrispminis (916 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

These are all good ideas... but they are not necessary. There are more important edits to be made. Not to mention, if you haven't noticed, kestasjk does all the coding? While it's open source, I tend to stay out of his way. He isn't paid to do this, to my knowledge, so you can't expect/demand anything from him. This is perhaps the single active online diplomacy community outside of the official Hasbro.

kestasjk (64 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

Those are all good ideas, but as Chrispminis said there are more pressing things at hand at the moment.

In 0.75 the game forum will be replaced altogether will something which will hopefully make communication between players more natural. The forum on this page will be relatively unchanged, and I'll probably make the forum on this page plug in to phpBB rather than code my own very complex forum.

I haven't said what I have in mind so this would be a good time to get a 2nd opinion before I code it (though changes to the DB have already been made in preparation for it).

This is the basic idea of the new game messaging, though I'm not sure about using tabs:
http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/images/message.jpg

The only other big UI change for 0.75 is a notification bar so you can see at a glance what's going on in your games from all the pages, the mail icon means you have mail in that game, the exclamation mark means you have to finalize orders, and the game's name will link to the game
http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/images/notification.jpg

I think these will be a big help with no drawbacks, but there it is just in case

Those two, a couple of adjudicator and internal changes, and some other tweaks, are all I have planned for 0.75 atm, your ideas will have to wait for a bit.
Thanks for the suggestions,

Davetroll (100 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

That looks cool, but would i mean limiting the no. of games a player could join?

kestasjk (64 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

Nope, they'd roll over onto the next line if there were too many.

figlesquidge (2131 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

That does look like a nice upgrade. One very simple thing to add that i would REALLY like you to do would be to add a user preference that allows the changing of the order for ingame pages. Viewing the source, i noticed you build up each section into variables, then print the whole page in order. Please would you add a simple preference allowing that order to be different, since i would rather see who has or hasnt finalized than see the forum!

Davetroll (100 )
10 Dec 06 UTC

That's a good point (one of the first times i've EVER understood him fully!). From what he is saying, it sounds simple, and from the game that he has taken inspiration for this idea from, it would improve the aesthetics and simplicity. Good idea figle.

kestasjk (64 )
11 Dec 06 UTC

figlesquidge: So instead of forum, map, orders, game statistics, you would prefer statistics, forum, map, orders?
I could put the info on who has and hasn't finalized into the forum, perhaps by putting a tick in the tabs of the people who have finalized already. I'd rather make the forum front and center in 0.75 though, I really want to make it obvious to people that the game is about diplomacy
Thanks for the idea about making who has and hasn't finalized more clear, regards,

DoctorZiggy (100 )
11 Dec 06 UTC

Dave I want smex with you :0

figlesquidge (2131 )
12 Dec 06 UTC

What i ment would have been Orders;Map;Finalised;Forum.
However, based on the picture you gave of the proposed new layout (cant find the link now), i think it would be good to have different to view text from each other player.
Coding wise, this could be done with a simple I-Frame and javascript on the tab links.
Since this is hard to explain and i dont think i've done good just doing this, I'll try to put a rough picture up soon...
DoctorZiggy - whats the point?

DoctorZiggy (100 )
12 Dec 06 UTC

What ISN'T the point? Robert, you're such an ass. If I wanna be a girl, I'll be a girl.

Davetroll (100 )
12 Dec 06 UTC

!!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL!!! ROBERT !!! LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL !!!
He hasn't been called that in YEARS. Is that Pete by any chance?

Davetroll (100 )
12 Dec 06 UTC

Nope, wait, it's Hannah! nice one :p

DoctorZiggy (100 )
14 Dec 06 UTC

:D No problemo

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11 Dec 06 UTC

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Socialism

Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose your chains!
That's right, fight for freeed-ommmmm(like in Braveheart) by joining the game 'Socialism'. Are you ready, comrade?

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11 Dec 06 UTC

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Fleet Movement bug

Whenever I move into Bulgaria from Constantinople, the fleet always moves into the north coast. Ditto for creating a fleet there. I think that Spain has the same problem, as does St Petersburg to a lesser extent (the problem there is only with creating fleets, not with movement as there are no ambiguous moves there)

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11 Dec 06 UTC

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Too many games running?

I want to start a new game (I'm bored right now), but it appears so there are too many games running?

There are too many games currently running, please try again another day.

What? Is there a limit to the games being able to run?

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figlesquidge (2131

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10 Dec 06 UTC

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Comment...

Im not sure what should be done about it, but at the moment there is a problem. In the game #128 - http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/board.php?gid=128 - many players have not been playing. Infact, only Turkey, Russia, Italy and France have been moving, whilst the other three nations have not. This has lead to the fairness in the board layout being disrupted.
Possiblities include adding an option to:
1) Pause game
2) Resign from game
3) Kick players out after 2 days of no moves (goes with 1st!)
Comments please...

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10 Dec 06 UTC

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Allied victory

Is there any way to create an allied victory? It would make the game more interesting.

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08 Dec 06 UTC

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Just wondering.....

When did Phpdiplomacy start? How many registered users are there? How many still play?

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09 Dec 06 UTC

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Apologies

I would like to say my apologies to lmatt and wingman for having a go at them both. As they both know, i've been in a piss recently as my iPod was stolen, and i'm very liable to attack them. Wingman gets it 2moz: we're going PAINTBALLING!!! wooh.

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09 Dec 06 UTC

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help

what do u think i should do (i am france)
http://phpdiplomacy.kuliukas.com/map.php?gid=129

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