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The Muting Thread
This is the thread that everyone mutes.
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Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
01 Apr 17 UTC
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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ON VDIPLOMACY'S FUTURE
Please see within for details on the vDiplomacy Referendum.
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GOD (1850 D Mod (B))
28 Jan 16 UTC
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Can't stop the Trump
Does anyone here has a clue as to why Donald Trump is boycotting the latest republican debate? Seems to have only downsides and risks without a real gain to me. Enlighten me please.
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Anon (?? D)
09 Apr 17 UTC
KING OF GUNBOAT
gameID=30786 2 day phases 100pt bet WTA Anon gunboat
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Matticus13 (1300 D)
15 Apr 17 UTC
Seeking replacement for Shift Right variant game
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=30376#gamePanel

Looking for a replacement for Italy (me). The current position is pretty stable. I'm looking to eliminate all of my press games due to time constraints.
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The Ambassador (1948 D (B))
08 Mar 17 UTC
Live video feed podcast?
Hi folks - Kaner and I are getting together this time next week for another boozy Dip chat.
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Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
11 Apr 17 UTC
The Original Diplomacy Variant
As many of you know, the Calhamer estate is being liquidated and the very first self-published Diplomacy board sold for just over $5000 last week. Well, something else interesting from the same sale - a bunch of prototype maps, these likely being from several years before the game was published.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/262922746919
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David E. Cohen (1000 D)
29 Mar 17 UTC
Calhamer Estate Sale
See below.
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kaner406 (2181 D Mod (B))
03 Apr 17 UTC
Sitter needed!!
For 7 days, ongoing bourse game. 1 SC power, 3 day phases, no bourse orders needed, only a hotbod to look after the unit on the board. PM me or reply on this thread. Thanks!
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MerlijnvL (941 D)
31 Mar 17 UTC
Hallo
Hallo
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didigoose (1532 D)
13 Mar 17 UTC
Hof Points Question
I have 2 questions related to the Hof point calculation

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zurn (1178 D)
28 Mar 17 UTC
Minor map issues
Is anybody able to make minor cosmetic map changes to the variants, for readability? There's two small things I've noticed:

* Imperial Diplomacy II: there's a connection between Morocco and W. Med, but the map really doesn't show it.
* First Crusade: The Sardinia supply centre in the large map is placed in an odd, almost invisible spot.
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Oztra (869 D)
18 Mar 17 UTC
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WebDip members on here
Hi Guys,
just wondering how many people that are from webdip come over here and do stuffs
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Matticus13 (1300 D)
22 Mar 17 UTC
36 hour GB, Classic map
Classic/Gunboat/36 hour/Anon/Bet: 25. One or two games. List your preference and add your name to sign up. RR +90 preferred. I will create the game(s) and PM password when full. FITE ME ;)
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Anon (?? D)
18 Mar 17 UTC
Looking for a replacement player
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=30436
Fall of year 1, still solid position to play France here.
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Decima Legio (1987 D)
19 Oct 16 UTC
V-dip players Map
http://goo.gl/maps/EPgiV
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nopunin10did (1041 D)
14 Mar 17 UTC
Where is the draw button?
I'm in a "friends" game of Imperial (http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=28912), and I can't for the life of me find any button to either propose a draw or vote on one.
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DogsRule11 (866 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
Anyone up to hone their skills in Imperial II?
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=30374
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Anon (?? D)
14 Mar 17 UTC
Live Game
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=30495
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Decima Legio (1987 D)
22 Dec 16 UTC
Shift Right variant
Anybody interested to try out the shift right / shift left variant?
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LovelyPinkEgg (1330 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Diplomacy Supreme
Oh, because the game crushed and all of us were defeated, only Turkey not, I suppose he won. Am I right?
LovelyPinkEgg (1330 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
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I wanted to ask what happend with the game. Also ask Turkey, if he really want or what happend. And about my points, nothing changed. And I had to survive, not lose. Mods? Turkey? :)
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
10 Mar 17 UTC
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Reposting what I posted in global:

"Captainmeme (Moderator): Hi everyone,

I cannot figure out how to get this to uncrash. I tried everything I did last time, plus a bunch more, and none of it helped.

I have looked through all the orders, though, and I can confirm that Turkey would have won this phase, losing no centers and gaining the following supply centers:

Murmansk
Munich
Morocco
Lubango
Zimbabwe
Okinawa
Taiwan
Hong Kong
Guam
Nauru

This would put him on 128 SCs, giving him the solo victory.

Since this is a WTA game, that result is the same as if everyone else voted to concede to Turkey. Therefore, I am going to put up a concede vote for every other player, giving Turkey the victory here."


Unfortunately, it seems that whatever the bug was, it also stopped the game from ending properly when the concede votes were in - so it sent out messages saying everyone was defeated, but nobody actually was. I'm still working on fixing it.
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
10 Mar 17 UTC
Uhhh... It seems to be constantly trying to resolve the situation and marking everyone as defeated, then failing and trying again. This will mean your homepage will be spammed up with messages saying "<country> was defeated" over and over again.

Nothing I can do about it until the game properly crashes so I can access it again... That might take a little while.
00matthew2000 (2409 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Thank you Captain
LovelyPinkEgg (1330 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
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I can't look at the global chat, because the game is crushed, so thank you for your respond Captain! Gg, well played matthew!
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
10 Mar 17 UTC
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Oli fixed the issue :) Congratulations Turkey!
00matthew2000 (2409 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Thank you very much Captain, and Oli. By the way, is 128 a Diplomacy record? I am curious
DogsRule11 (866 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Even if it's not, you now have the most vPoints of anyone in the game...
DogsRule11 (866 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
On this website, even...
00matthew2000 (2409 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
I don't understand why I got so many? It was 529 right?
00matthew2000 (2409 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Nevermind
bigrob (1834 D)
10 Mar 17 UTC
Thanks to this solo in WWIV, you are now the top player on this site. Congratulations on your richly deserved victory.
Mapu (2086 D (B))
11 Mar 17 UTC
Damn. 1283 D awarded for a single game. No offense to 00matthew, as entering that many moves every phase is quite a slog and obviously it was a great victory, but that seems like a bug in the formula!
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
11 Mar 17 UTC
I don't think it's a bug - it's just a side effect of the way the formula works. vRanking takes into account your rating and the rating of the other players in the game, calculates your likelihood to win, and rewards you based on how unexpected the win was. If you play 5 7-player games in a row and win all of them, your rating will be going up each time you win, meaning that you'll gain much less for the next win because your higher ranking means you're considered more likely to win. If you beat 35 players at once, however, all of them are compared to your initial rating, which means that you'll gain a huge amount.

It's not ideal, but it's really difficult to have an elo-like rating system balanced out across variants with different numbers of players, different scoring systems, and also account for draws.
bigrob (1834 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
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So, I took over United Kingdom as a replacement player,but when I lost my rating went down. Wasn't there some rule about this not happening, to make it easier to find replacement players for hopeless positions?
RUFFHAUS 8 (2490 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
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bigrob and Mapu make excellent observations here in the aftermath of this game. Good for Matthew collecting a solo, and demonstrating the devastation that a solo victory should bring. Yet, one game should not make or break a player when compared to dozens of games or years of play. The Elo ratings system has needed an overhaul for a long time, and this game only serves to amplify that. Furthermore bigrob is penalized for his nobility here in trying to help the community by taking on a hopeless position. We need a system that identifies mercy poistions and absolves players from points penalties (and/or rewards possibly). Tracking replacement position contributions separately seems a better solution.

Some of the Dip communities that I have played in previously have awarded badges/medals/martyr points for various outcomes of games, which track seperately from strict performance. Examples are this might be loyalty (# of games played), reliability (NMR-free), mercy/other replacements, and so on. The idea here is to create incentives and rewards for players to engage in play that benefits the community.

There's probably a long list of items that need fixing whenever the site gets the administrative assistance it needs, but it would be nice if someone would keep a list of things like this for that time. If the moderator team is too overwhelmed to take this on, I would volunteer to maintain such a list.
bigrob (1834 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
To clarify, I didn't take over the United Kingdom in a hopeless position, and I was optimistic until very late I would be part of a draw in this game. But I am curious what the situation is regarding ranking points and takeovers.
RUFFHAUS, I'm sure it wouldn't hurt if you maintained such a list even if mods track it as well. Redundancy + more squeaky wheels = better chance of attention and resolution. I've come to loathe the rating system and how it has impacted the choices of good players and what games they will join, among other flaws and unintended consequences. Matthew, quit now while you're ahead, you may reign as the vDip champion for all time.
tantrumizer (1557 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
I was in a game that crashed when everyone (except me) conceded. When someone fixed the game up, after a month or so I think, the game concluded and I won, but I lost 46 vPoints, even though I was up against good opposition and probably should have gone up 80 or so...

So, it is possible there is some weirdness with scoring when games are uncrashed.
But if months had passed, randomizer, then the differential between you and your opponents at well have changed do to other games ending. It's the rating at game end that determines the change.
tantrumizer (1557 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
I'm not randomizer. :-)

Anyway, I decided to look for more info. If you look at my Hall of Fame history, I scored -46 for the win. http://www.vdiplomacy.com/hof.php?userID=6557 (game Build Anywhere Classic Boating), but if you look at the score allegedly calculated for the game, I should have gone up 102. http://www.vdiplomacy.com/hof.php?gameID=24405

I don't really think the differential differences would have come into play to that degree. Most of my solos with 7+ players earned 80+ at least and even the "little" ones keep me in the positive.

Maybe I'll get this fixed, now that I've found a discrepancy. :-)
tantrumizer (1557 D)
12 Mar 17 UTC
But it does look like the numbers for the original game in question match up. Was just putting it out there.
Sorry, stupid phone auto corrected.
And yeah, a solo should never go negative. That does sound like a bug.
Captainmeme (1400 D Mod (B))
13 Mar 17 UTC
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That's... really weird. I'll see what I can do.


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13 Mar 17 UTC
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13 Mar 17 UTC
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Anon (?? D)
13 Mar 17 UTC
New Fun Game For Fun People
http://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=30468 Password is a, non-fun people are not allowed
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Anon (?? D)
11 Mar 17 UTC
Looking for replacement player for brand new game
http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=30378
No moves made yet.
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Mapu (2086 D (B))
09 Feb 17 UTC
Diplomacy Historians
When Diplomacy first came out, was the classic board exactly as it is now (pretty much perfect) or did it evolve to where it is today?
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taylor4 (936 D)
08 Mar 17 UTC
Compromised Log ons
You get any sudden, new box msgs "connection not secure" MODS: hola !
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Kenpai (939 D X)
03 Mar 17 UTC
Cheaters
I have encountered a hacked account named HQDeevejot who is able to break games by exploiting a glitch, BEWARE
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Anon (?? D)
20 Feb 17 UTC
New WWIV game- come and play!
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=30278
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Mitomon (1990 D)
22 Feb 17 UTC
Introduction
Hello everyone! I'm new to this site so I'd like to get to know you guys. You guys can call me Mitomon, mitomon, Mito or mito. I like chocolate ice cream and taking over the world. What about you guys?
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