My apologies. It wasn't The ambassador, but Captainmeme who is the lying sack of shit. :-)

Please accept my most humble apologies, The Ambassador.

Excuse me? This isn't Webdip, this is Vdip - you're supposed to be civil here.

Look at the smiley... I'm joking about the whole Lying sack of shit thing. I just wanted to clarify that we agreed to pause till after Easter to give Oli and folks time to fix it and decide from there if nothing had changed what we would do. Then Oli's machine went boom and nothing got changed. So not unpausing was not metagaming at all.

Anyhow, we agreed to pause because Holland went on holiday;

"(To: Global, from Holland) - I'm going for at least seven days"
"(To: Global, from Holland) - please remember to pause guys"

Not to give Oli time to sort out problems. And I have to say that your messages critisizing the game and it's maker were rather heartless considering TA had been working on it for a long time and he was in the game, so he could see them.

And, also, Rochusson had a high RR when he started - his CD in that game and a couple of others brought him down to an F afterwards.

Actually, the agreement to extend the pause (like further up in the messages) was to give time to have the bugs fixed. Seriously. Read the later messages. And, as a software developer, I refuse to let even freeware go out with bugs of that nature. Heartless? Maybe, but I will remember next time a new variant gets introduced to not jump on the bandwagon and give it some months to get fixed first. I don't let bugs leave my local computer on the order of what I saw in that variant. If I knew PHP, I would help out with fixing them. But the thing didn't even feel unit tested, much less game tested.

Re: the CD. True and also true that we didn't even have the RR at the time the game started.

Anyone from the game interested in a rematch at some point? (Not counting you, btw, it's fairly obvious you don't want to yet :D)

No problem, I wasn't gpoing to anyhow. I'll wait untilt he bugs are ironed out and even then... I just don't like the random hurricane and a few other things that turn it into dice rolling and not diplomacy.

The Pirates-variant is a really beast code wise.
It looks soo innocent to code, but the attack-adjudicator is really hard to understand.
And I have really a bunch of RL issues that only allow for some small generic coding (like the reliability-rating or the concede button)...

Fact is: I have no clue at the moment why it isn't working. And to debug this I need at least a few days off so I can work on this thing for some time continuous. But with my current RL-situation this won't happen in the next few month to come. So you have to take the Pirates-variant as is. There is nothing I can fix magically the next few days as I obvious aren't working on these issues at the moment.
I'll implement the country-switch-feature in the next few weeks/month, but this is a really simple and strait-forward thing to code. The adjudicator is much beyond my capabilities and much more complex as it seems. One part of the code fixed, many new problems created...
Sorry.

@YCHTT: "I refuse to let even freeware go out with bugs of that nature"
This is where we differ, vdiplomacy, is a free service that Oli has developed and coded in his spare time. If there are a few bugs its fine by me because being here isn't costing me a dime.

"Re: the CD. True and also true that we didn't even have the RR at the time the game started. "
Actually we have had it for a few months now.

OK, we didn't have it appearing on the game or restrictable in the game filter.

And yes, we differ because I am a bit of a perfectionist in my code. I guess I should cut other developers more slack. But I didn't let anyone see the new grey press page until I felt it was fully functional and bug free. And version two won't be released until I feel the black press features are perfected as well.