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Argentinean Empire (1606

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16 May 16 UTC

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When am I not a political puppet anymore?

My rating is 1106 and I have 148

. What to I have to get to to not be a political puppet?

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DogsRule11 (866

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13 May 16 UTC

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I can't find the thread for advertising new, non-live games.

I have one: Betsize 5, PPSC.
http://vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=26817
Please join!

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Argentinean Empire (1606

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05 May 16 UTC
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Best variant for a series?

I will be starting a new series of games on one variant, similar to the WWII Gunboat Series. But I can't choose one variant. . . and I don't know what you all think about Gunboat/Public Press/All messages. Anybody want to comment?

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05 May 16 UTC

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Haven

Hey people! There is an almost full Haven game, we just need ten more players, so if you ever wanted to play that variant, now's your chance!!

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02 May 16 UTC

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NWO:The Qi Awakens replacement needed

The game has only barely begun, but I need a replacement for Morocco. All details of the game are located here:

http://www.redscape.com/viewforum.php?f=141

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25 Apr 16 UTC
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not fair

http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=26506 I start play here with Spain.If you see no messenger in game , but now see that same players make same order/give themselves support/.Like Italy give Germany support for attack France and some another....I don't like similar game.
If have messenger in game OK everything will be perfect , but some player to make alliance before game.....no thank you .
I left this game

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30 Apr 16 UTC

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FtF in Connecticut

I am organizing face to face games in Connecticut and would love to invite anyone in the area to come play with us!

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Fang Zhang (919

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27 Apr 16 UTC

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7*7 gunboat tournament

See below

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23 Apr 16 UTC
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Move arrows

Hi all. When I click the little "arrow sign" to get a map without move arows the units turn into texts instead of pictures. Is is possible to get no arrows but still unit pictures?

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07 Apr 16 UTC

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gameID=26359 New Game

KING OF GUNBOAT

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TheatreVarus (874

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25 Apr 16 UTC
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Replacement Needed - Youngstown Redux

Hi all, we need a replacement India for a Youngstown-Redux game
gameID=26476
No moves have gone through yet, phase ends in 10 hours from the time of this post.

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DogsRule11 (866

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24 Apr 16 UTC

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Hamilton!

Who has seen or is going to see the musical Hamilton? I'm seeing it this summer!

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23 Apr 16 UTC

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Reliability Question

In general, I love the idea of the reliability score, and how it helps to keep games from being ruined by sore losers/less-committed players.

However, I think the formula may need a tweak as it is unintentionally punishing long-time players (like myself).

raapers2 (1787 )
23 Apr 16 UTC

According to the reliability stats, I have played at least 210 games dating back to 2011 (and many more before that). I have a +99% NoNMR and NoCD score.

Life does get in the way, though, and after over 5 years on this site, I have accrued 34 NMRs (out of 7749) and 2 CDs (out of 210). My two CDs, by the way, happened in January and April of 2011!

According to the current formula, I then have a R98 score and can only play 1 game at a time?

To me, that ignores the 7715 turns I played without missing my orders. In fact, unless I waste months with my 1 free game taking over for CD'd players, I'll never recover my score even if I continue to enter my orders normally.

Therefore, I propose two possible solutions:
1) Age-off games that ended 1+ (or 2+, or 3+, etc) years ago. If a player has gone 1 (or 2, etc) years without an NMR or CD, why keep penalizing him/her?
2) Use a percentage of NMRs/CDs rather than the "number" of them. Otherwise they will inevitably accrue for everyone as life happens.

(I assume and apologize that this has probably been discussed before, but I didn't feel like digging thru the entire forum to find an answer.)

Retillion (2304 )
23 Apr 16 UTC

It is not true that a player with a RR of 98 can only play 1 game at a time.

For example, the player himdoi324 (userID=2153) has a RR of 65 and he is currently playing 4 games.

raapers2 (1787 )
23 Apr 16 UTC

I assume it should stop him from joining new games, however.

Either way, I think my possible solutions could answer my issue while still preventing non-attentive players like him from ruining more games.

Captainmeme (1400 )
23 Apr 16 UTC

The number of games you can create/join is based on your integrity rating, not on your RR. You used to be able to see this stat at the bottom of your Reliability Stats on your profile, but that doesn't seem to be there any more. You can still see it at http://vdiplomacy.com/reliability.php .

Your integrity rating doesn't work like Reliability Rating - every time you NMR or CD it goes down (less so for an NMR) and it can only be raised by taking over CDs. This was implemented at a time when there were a lot of Open games and we needed to encourage people to take over CDs.

Right now, though, there are very few positions that can be taken over. I'll talk to Oli about changing the way this works.

raapers2 (1787 )
24 Apr 16 UTC

Yeah, I saw that I have a -4 rating. But that is tied to the NMR/CDs, which is my point. I added above that the only way for me to get that rating up is to spend the next few months trying to take over games with the 1 game I am allowed to play.

Leif_Syverson (1400 )
24 Apr 16 UTC

We have a proposal in to Oli already to fix this sort of issue, where it takes some time but eventually consecutive phases without NMR's or CD's does improve your rating, but taking over CD's still corrects the issue faster. Cap, check the mod forum for this topic. I'll PM you the proposal.
Note the CD takeover we do have in place does not count against the games you are allowed to join. In other words if you have games running and are not allowed to create a new game, you can still take over a CD. If you take over enough to return your rating above -1 then you have no restrictions. Takeovers these days are few and far between though so a change to the reliability improvement system is long overdue.

raapers2 (1787 )
24 Apr 16 UTC

Thank you for starting to address this issue.

I admit I incorrectly conflated the reliability rate and the "reliability restriction", or whatever it is called.

I also admit that in my personal case I could have taken over more games. I generally avoid them because they are usually a waste of time. And, as you said, lately there haven't been many of them anyway.

How does the consecutive phases without NMR/CDs improve the latter? To me, the formula only takes into consideration your total # of NMR/CDs, which, after 5+ years, inevitably grow.

I have no idea, but would think it would be fairly easy to add an age-off limit to the formula. Just tell the system to only look at games since the start of 2014, or something, and then go in and change that every year or so.

TheatreVarus (874 )
25 Apr 16 UTC
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WebDip recently implemented a policy where taking over a game cost no coins, could we bring that over here? It would encourage people to take over hopeless situations and give some competition. Also if it had no effect on V-scores that would be amazing. My V-score is at 1093 because of the number of CD's (19) I've taken over and subsequently been defeated in.

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24 Apr 16 UTC

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Display problems?

The last two days, I am only able to see the first line of text in some press when using my iPhone, anyone else experiencing this?

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Argentinean Empire (1606

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22 Apr 16 UTC

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WWII New Gunboat Seris signups!

I will be starting a new WW2 Gunboat series/tournament. Post in this thread if you want to join!

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05 Apr 16 UTC

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The Gopher Phenomenon

Samoyed puppies are the cutest puppies.

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18 Apr 16 UTC

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What are the v-points?

What are the v-points?

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LogicCure (1242

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17 Apr 16 UTC

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Replacement Needed -Fall of the American Empire

http://vdiplomacy.net/board.php?gameID=25937

Need a replacement California. Very good position, 17 centers, not too compromised by the NMRs.

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DogsRule11 (866

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17 Apr 16 UTC
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Mod-paused games

Hey Mods, could you please tell us, when pausing a game, why you are pausing that game, and for how long. For example, I am in a game called NMS war. It has been paused be you, mods, for more than a week with no explanation and no end in sight. When you send the message to a game that you are pausing it, could you include why, and for how long? Thank you for reading this.

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mapleleaf (1155

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17 Apr 16 UTC

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Now urgent message in Mod mailbox

Its become time sensitive, unfortunately

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15 Apr 16 UTC

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SC Diagramme

Dear Sirs!
If somebody noticed in WebDiplomacy scripts package we got script called Graph. I tried to finish it but I can't cope with all this and it does not work correctly. I do not understand what are the percentages painted in gray color? Someone is working on this? I've added on my site. You can take a look here:
http://server.diplomail.ru/board.php?gameID=398&viewArchive=Graph

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11 Apr 16 UTC

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Can't find my own game in search

I created a game (United States of Africa) but no matter the search settings I use, I can't find it by searching games or looking through new games. The only way to get to it is through the home page. Is that normal?

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08 Apr 16 UTC

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New 3 Person Variant, Thoughts?

Here is the current mock up of a 3-player variant I created, Triduum. Y'all are smarter than me about this stuff so discuss it or something, if you don't mind.

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31 Mar 16 UTC
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Well I've just quit Facebook

good riddance.

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peterlund (1080

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03 Apr 16 UTC
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NMR: off?

What does "NMR: off" mean? What effect does setting NMR=0 have on a game?

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peterlund (1080

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03 Apr 16 UTC

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Max. turns?

How is the number of turns counted? How many turn are there on a year: 2, 3, 5 or does it vary between 2 and 5 depending on if there are retreats and builds? I hope it does not vary since I want to specify "end after build 1908".

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29 Mar 16 UTC

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Where's the EU check-in vis a vis Slowness of vDip website of late

Previously, vDip website requested check-in at sign on - required by European Union, Oli said. Altho all objected we complied. Wouldn't you agree that this website is overloaded or too slow to process recently & that if the Mods agree, we jettison Forum? Hands up who'll use the [phew!] other Diplomacy gaming forums. (& don't those non-vDip specific inquiries belong on 'zine sites & the 'zine's successors' sites: Diplomacy World &c., &c.?

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30 Mar 16 UTC

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NWO: The Qi Awakens

The 2016 New World Order play-by-email game now officially has a name, The Qi Awakens. This game will be hosted on Redscape here: http://www.redscape.com/viewforum.php?f=141

You do not need to have a username to play, but you will need to provide your email address. Please let me know if you are interested in playing. There are still some spots available.

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Argentinean Empire (1606

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18 Mar 16 UTC

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New variant idea

What if we had a 1v1 variant where it was North America vs. South America? Sort of like the Cold War where it is NATO vs USSR, but North America vs South America. Thoughts?

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Argentinean Empire (1606

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27 Mar 16 UTC

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Please answer if you know

I was looking at my HOF, and I have these things next to each opponent I had in a game. They are "Re Rr Dif mV gV Ch"

Can someone please tell me what these mean?

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