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14 Apr 11 UTC

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Canadian federal election, 2011

What party are you voting for and why?

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21 Apr 11 UTC

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Gunboat: Please, join for game "We just want to get a pleasure.."

New Gunboat: Please, join for 20 mins to game named "We just want to get a pleasure.."
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=56808

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21 Apr 11 UTC

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You Aint Never Seen a Live Game This Big

I will be making a live world diplomacy game for Saturday morning.
I will post the url tomorrow when i make it.
Please join it will be 10 bet regular messaging and Points Per Supply Center

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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Diplomacy as Which Game?

How do you play Diplomacy? Is it like poker to you? Or chess? Or something else?

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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bug..

in classic, St petes north coast allows St Petes north coast to spt to Barents from St petes. it doesnt let you enter the move, but it brings up an exclamation point

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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Feb'11 GR Challenge Game 3 EOG

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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100 point game anyone?

I found that I have run out of games on this site. I have only one game going on, and I am already eliminated in that... so, Is anyone interested in a 100 point ancient med? 24-36 hour phases, depending on what those playing want, PPSC or WTA, whichever those who play want... so, whoever wants in, let me know.

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21 Apr 11 UTC

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NEED AN ENGLAND!!!

http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=56578&msgCountryID=7

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13 Apr 11 UTC

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c'mon man

Here is your bitching thread. Every post has to end with c'mon man.

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Thucydides (864

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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SantaClausowitz please check your PMs

Hi Santa if you wouldn't mind checking your PMs as soon as you can and getting back to me, that'd be great. Peace.

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Hotel Info for FTF-Boston

Here's what I've found on hotels so far. No one preferred to be in the burbs. So be prepared to spend some real money or share a room.

Crazyter (1335 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

cheapest option may be Hostel Intl http://www.hihostels.com/dba/hostel060002.en.htm

B&B’s seem to be approximately the same price as hotel rooms:
http://www.parksidebb.com/policies.html
http://irvinghouse.com/accommodations/single-shared-bath/
http://www.463beacon.com/index.html

Here’s what MIT recommends:
http://web.mit.edu/visit/hotels.html

Scouting around on the internet then, I came up with these options as some of the least expensive (in no particular order):
1.Kendall hotel-very convenient location about $200 per nite
2.. I’ve never booked on Hotwire but its coming up with a 4* hotel in Cambridge for $92 per night for June 10 and 11, which sounds worth doing. Same price of $92 is coming up for special unnamed hotel on Expedia.
3.. Lemeridien.com $146 per nite, decent location 1 subway stop from Kendall or about a 10 minute walk
4.. Hyatt- beautiful hotel on river, 1 minute walk, offering special deal for $169 per nite
5.. Milner Hotel $116 per nite, very basic http://www.booking.com/hotel/us/milner-b-boston-massachusettes.html?&checkin=2011-06-10&checkout=2011-06-12&selected_currency=USD&lang=en&aid=315281

General advice-Try to get something near a subway ("T") station or within a 10 minute walk to MIT

yebellz (729 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

The Hyatt is *not* a 1 minute walk from the tournament venue. It's actually a little over a mile away, since it is located on the westernmost end of the MIT campus. The venue is near the eastern end of the MIT campus, which is a long narrow stretch along the river.

yebellz (729 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

Crazyter did a good job of digging up some info. If you are looking for lodging, her links would be a great way to start.

By the way, I'm a local, so feel free to ask me any general questions about the city, such as about transport, etc. I don't know much about the quality of the hotels, but I have a good sense of where they are and how convenient they would be with respect to the venue.

I'm so excited that this tournament is happening in my city! Thanks to all of the organizers!

joey1 (198 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

I am coming from Canada, so I will be coming down the I-93. I found a couple of hotels about 40 min North of Boston (according to Google maps) that are in the $60/night range. Being from the Big country of Canada a 40 min drive does not seam to be that long to save $60/night.

Thucydides (864 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

yebellz - which of the hotels on that list is the closest to the venue?

yebellz (729 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

The Kendall Hotel and the Cambridge Marriott are the two closest hotels. Both are basically right on the Kendall Square T stop and are about a quarter mile from the venue (Sky Room, 100 Memorial Drive, Cambridge).

The Kendall Hotel is small hotel. The Cambridge Marriott is quite large and has a parking garage for its guests.

abgemacht (1076 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

Joey,

Please keep a couple things in mind:

1) The tourney starts early and ends late. If you've never played F2F games before, you may be surprised how physically and mentally demanding they are. You may wish you were asleep instead of commuting to the tourney.

2) 40 min will easily turn into 1 1/2 hours, especially in the morning, as we start at the end of rush hour.

3) Parking and driving in Boston is just an enormous pain. Save for hotels, I don't even know how close the nearest reliable parking lot is. I do know it will be a fortune though.

To everyone, I'd highly recommend getting a hotel within walking/T distance of the event.

yebellz (729 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

@abge, joey1, there is also a public parking garage in the Kendall Sq area. I don't know what the rates are, but I expect between $10-$20 for a full day of parking.

Another option is driving to the Alewife T station, parking there for the day at $6 or $7 per day and taking the T down to Kendall. Alewife is north of Boston. How convenient it is to get to depends on where you end up staying.

yebellz (729 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

Le Meriden is just south east of Central Sq. That area has some restaurants and bars. If you stay there, the easiest commute would be to simply walk, and that would be about 10-15 minutes (a little under a mile). It would not be worth it to walk backwards to the Central Sq T stop and then take it only one stop to Kendall.

The Hyatt is an even further walk than Le Meridian (a little over a mile) and it's located in a somewhat bland part of the town. It's mostly just MIT dorms and some companies in that area. So it's not too convenient for restaurants and pubs.

joey1 (198 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

Does Boston have Rush hour even on weekends? In Ottawa and Toronto, weekend mornings are the one time when the traffic is fairly light.

To be honest, 9:30 AM is not really early for me, I'm usually already been at work for 90 min by then.

abgemacht (1076 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

HAHA, oh yeah, weekends...

Crazyter (1335 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

@yebellz-sorry about the typo-I meant to write 10 minute walk, I think though that could have been optimistic, maybe it is a 15 minute walk

Crazyter (1335 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

***ATTENTION COMMUTERS***
@joey-I think you could commute down 93 pretty quickly on weekend mornings. I will be commuting in myself but from Rt 2.

There is a slight possibility of getting free parking Saturday but dont count on it. Sunday you can park at the meters and they are free. DO NOT use meters on Saturday because they expire every hour or 2 and you wont have time to feed them in the middle of a fast paced tourney.

The biggest problem is getting lost!! Be sure to have a good GPS or an excellent map at least.

Crazyter (1335 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

FYI Location of Venue
(and I will post this again right before the torunament, but for those of you trying to plan now, here it is)

The official address is 100 Memorial Drive. However, the entrance is at the corner of Amherst St and Carleton St. This is the entrance for cars and pedestrians both. From the Kendall T stop, be sure to exit onto Main Street and turn right at Carleton Street (Rebeccas' Cafe?), walk 1 block to Amherst Street and its the large building across the street and directly in front of you.

joey1 (198 )
20 Apr 11 UTC

I'm Catholic and I like to go to mass on Sundays. Does any Boston local know of either a very early Sunday mass or a Sunday evening mass in the area? If not I can check masstimes.org, but I prefer local recommendations.

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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Biggest dunce moves

What's everyone's biggest dunce moves that, in retrospect, cost you more than you bargained for?

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18 Apr 11 UTC

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3rdxthecharm canceled: POST HERE IF IN THE GAME

I sent out invites to more than six people, so I don't know who all joined. Please post in here to let me know you were in the game so I can send everyone a new invite and we can get going again.

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17 Apr 11 UTC

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Gunboat Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry

Who is interested in a new WTA gunboat?
36h phase with COMMITMENT TO FINALIZE ORDERS
Anonymous
High pot (+200

buy-in - negotiable)

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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Metagaming clarification

Rule 2 of the WebDiplomacy rules states "You can't make alliances for reasons outside a game".

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Quick Question

When you tell a unit to support hold another unit, but the unit being held attacks and bounces an enemy, does the support hold fail?

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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Is it possible at all to contain Turkey from expanding past France?

Like...is there a set up of units that can 100% put in the same commands each turn to block Turkey from getting past the France area?

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20 Apr 11 UTC

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MetaGame results (&EOGs)

see inside

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Leaving games

How does a player leave a game?

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Post links to really hilarious shit in here

Because who doesn't like to laugh.

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13 Apr 11 UTC

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Money don't grow on trees

I trust Ryancare but, that's not saying much being from a long line of Republican Nebraskans. Your thoughts on Ryancare?

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18 Apr 11 UTC

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obiwanobiwan, what is so great about Plato?

I have taken two philosophy courses which included reading "The Republic" as well as discussions about Plato and I can't remember anything significant about him. I can remember some of his ideas about what would make a good society and his analogy of the cave but I don't see why that makes him a great writer/philosopher. I am not saying he isn't, I was just wondering if you could explain why he is.

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Not a cheating allegation...

....It really isn't

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Interesting endgame position

Hey, kids. I was playing a Diplomacy AI in a gunboat and came across a comical endgame position. Look carefully at Eastern Mediterranean...

http://img41.imageshack.us/img41/290/isthatapantherintheems.png

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19 Apr 11 UTC

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Bloody Mary!

Come have fun you fools
http://webdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=56120
password: hatorade

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12 Apr 11 UTC

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New Game: Death and Taxes

I'll set it up on Friday. Not sure of any of the settings, or how I'll determine who will get in, think my brain is still in awe of Machu Picchu...

PM me for details, I'll release them when I figure them out... I may even get two or three games going, depending on the response...

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18 Apr 11 UTC

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EOG Gunboat Means Never Having to Say You're Sorry-5

I just wanted to start the EOG thread by saying what a fantastic game! That was so thrilling, I really enjoyed it. IKE you played a great game as Germany and I'm surprised you offered to draw and end the game - I think you could have pushed on and taken a win. Great game guys, I look forward to reading the EOGs.

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12 Apr 11 UTC

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16 hr gunboat

I have played 3 of these 16 hr gunboats. A lot of fun because it's quick.
Who is interested?

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13 Apr 11 UTC

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Feb '11 GR Challenge #4 EOG

EOG Statements from players inside. This was a good one.

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18 Apr 11 UTC

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World Diplomacy Glitch

Some of my orders won't save. I'm a 31 center China in the World variant, and when I try to convoy an army via a couple of fleets, the website asks me to "stop running the script" and gives me a "Parameter 'toTerrID' set to invalid value '82'" message--it won't let me save the orders or choose "ready" as an option.

Anybody know a way around this glitch?

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