So today I just discovered that "A Modern Europe" is actually just the Hearts of Iron 4 state map slightly edited. It's nearly identical, which explains why that map is so well made that it also works as a WW2 variant. It obviously would, if it was made using a map created for a WW2 game.

Has anyone else realized this as well, or is this just common knowledge?

Oli won.
On Imperial Civilization's off-topic thread (link inside), there was a brief stint of Second to Last Person to Post Wins. Now that the thread is closed, Oli won.

In an effort to compromise the pro-ads versus anti-ads for games: Post here for your non-live games to cut down on the number of ads but still advertise games. Post game link, WTA or PPSC, and the bet. Note: this doesn't count for special rules games.

If you click the little smiley face in another users profile, does that block them completely? Are they unable to join games that you’ve joined, or unable to join games you’ve created? How does that work? There were a couple of players in my last game who, for all appearances seem to be meta-gaming. It’s been reported but I don’t know what, if any, action will be taken, and I’d like to avoid playing with them in the future.

Sorry, I’m sure this is in the forum somewhere but couldn’t find a way to search for it. Why don’t we have SoS scoring here? Someone in my game talked about it like it used to be an option here.

Why does Rome on Classic have a few red pixels on the corner of its supply center? No other center on the map has this.

Also, am I analyzing the map way too much?
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https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=66769

https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=66161#gamePanel

I’m playing as India, my last move I made a supported attack on Borneo, Borneo had no support and tried to vacate with their move, but also failed. I’m guessing my fail is tied to that somehow? I can’t understand why the move to Borneo failed though.

I designed and commentated a one-shot variant where the players had to figure out the rules as they went along: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MYyc3sicAo

Posting this here because although I figure this can't really be run again (since people now know the rules), vDippers might be interested in the concept.

Due to the lack of a sandbox, I want to make alt accounts to test specifically the Imperium variant, but other variants as well. I noticed webDip has a relationship tracker to show alts, but I can't find a similar thing on here. Is it not on here?
Meanwhile, I'll just name the alt accounts Shadow-alt then a number so it's clear

Lo and Behold! A game ending in a solo victory, where the victor gets 0 points!

This thread is made for the express purpose of cutting down of multiple threads that deal with new variants, ideas, concepts etc...

Dont destroy me if this is wrong thread. first time posting. Looking for players for PIRATE 5

Hello- I'm teaching a younger gaming club to play Diplomacy. We would love to play some variants, like those offered on this site. To streamline the game, I use the Backstabbr sandbox to adjudicate our turns, and I wonder if there is a way to use this site to do the same on a variant map. Is that an option?

Call me crazy, but I have an idea. Ive seen team games done on this map before and they are pretty fun. So I thought up a unique twist to it, all the teams are color coded! (Mostly)

So i went and spent an hour putting together a rough idea to what it could be. 6 teams, relatively evenly spread out, and coded to colors with a few exceptions. Afterall where do you put Morocco the only orange country?

Where is the how to for the map info and view code button? The zip files are empty, the edit mode automatically switches itself off, and I can see map files with => in front of them that aren't showing up on the variant list. Are these maps unfinished? Did I miss something that answers all these questions when I went to the FAQ?

I just looked at the site rules, and I saw in some of the sections a declaration that this website is called webDiplomacy.
Does anyone know why is it? And if it's the same founder, why these two sites are separated? it just makes them both be with less players, although I'm playing in both of them, in the past I knew only about webDiplomacy.

Can anyone provide information about the process of submitting a new variant? I've looked around and quite possibly just missed it, but curious to know if there's an editing tool to tweak existing variants or if I need to start from scratch.

JBFroome said he sent me a request to take over his place in “Kings never die” as Cuba, but I cannot seem to find it anywhere. Where would I find it?

The FAQ states PPSC is disabled. There are still ppsc games. After the game ends it appears to split them like DSC?

In one of my games, I suspect that two players may be friends or even the same person. Their site registration dates are identical, and they have played the same three games together. How can I report this?
Game: https://www.vdiplomacy.com/board.php?gameID=65588
Players: England and Italy

I pretty frequently see the "New Games" tab cluttered with games that require invite codes to join. Whenever I start a game with people I know, the goal is to get everyone in ASAP, usually it starts like 10 minutes after I create the game at most. Who are all of these people who are being given invite codes to a game, but are still taking days or even weeks to join them? Is there some outside location where links to these games and their invite codes are being stored?

In the "new games" section, there are countless crashed games, going so far, that most games are crashed games. For some reason this always bothers me. Can someone therefore please delete them?

I joined a PPSC game that was nearly over, and ended with 3 supply centers. Since I bet none, why did my rating go down? Shouldn't it go up, since I won 3 points but paid 0 to enter?

Is anyone else having issues with rating? I just finished a game on Empires and Coalitions and dropped 150 points despite being part of a 4-way draw. Would love to hear if this is just a me problem, or if other people are experiencing this.

I'm curious if anyone would want to run some games through this thread of people with higher ratings? There's no real way to screen for it on anonymous games, and I feel like it would make for generally better games.

If this is against some sort of equal play law on this site, no worries at all, just wanted to see if there was any interest, and if so, what maps people wanted?

Hi, Years ago I created a Map called “Middle East on War”. But this map is not working fully well because wasn’t created correctly.

Can someone help me to create 100% correctly this map?

Latest Episode of Deadline News is out from the Diplomacy Broadcast Network. In this edition we have a promo interview about the upcoming World Dipcon in Greece with TD Spyros Dovas, an interview with UK hobby legend Stephen Agar about a great many things, the annual determination of what is Hot or Not in the hobby with Christopher John Ward, Zoe Cameron, and Randy Lawrence Hurt, and headlines from around the world of Diplomacy.
https://youtu.be/kYbnHM3zGig?si=NLgDQrsKv2opBhl2

I thought it would be interesting to compare each map, so I wrote some code, based on the best country's performance minus the worst country's performance, then the biggest difference is ranked lower, while a smaller difference is ranked higher. I spent too much time on it, and now I have a list, check it out!

Happy Lunar New Year! 新年快乐！