Diplomacy AM - mith wins

[Kees Hond]

* visits mama, wags little tail and lifts leg to pee at page 2... *

[AhoInu]

Hello darling, would you like a cup of tea? Dog treats? How are you keeping? typical parental noises ......

[Kees Hond]

* licks mama, munches on a dog biscuit, tells mama that DP is treating him well and lets him pee at page 2 a lot *

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Yes, I am a son of a bitch!

[CrystyB]

LOL @ SIG!!!

[AhoInu]

Rome and Greece need to find a retreat or disband asap. It is Summer year 4.

[AhoInu]

retreats adjudicated. it is Fall in year 4. Deadline Wednesday as usual. Be warned, I'm away from Sunday till Wednesday so there'll be no immediate confirmation of emails. I will make sure I get everyones correct before i adjudicate though. cheers AhoInu

[mith]

I'm getting my tonsils out Tuesday. In the event that I'm too out of it to get my orders in by the deadline, could it be pushed back a day?

[Fried Egg]

Any excuse!

[Ferris]

Ohh, ow! My tonsils!

What? Faking?

Oh, bah @ you. I suppose I've got to get some orders in then? Huh. Bloomin' deadlines...

*mutters*

[mith]

I just sent some orders. Hopefully I am not hallucinating or anything

[AhoInu]

Waiting SparHawk's orders. I've emailed him. We're back

[AhoInu]

Fall 4 adjudicated. Greece and Rome need to send a retreat. Greece also had a disband.

[Fried Egg]

Can't seem to get through to your page at the moment...

[AhoInu]

should be ok now

[AhoInu]

It's now winter. Egypt has a remove, Persia a Build. asap please

[AhoInu]

It is Spring Year 5. Wednesday deadline

[Ferris]

Email(s) replied to. Sorry for being so close to the deadline.

[AhoInu]

It is Summer year 5. Egypt must retreat or disband A Pet. asap

[AhoInu]

It is fall Year 05. Orders by Wednesday please. All this driving round in war triremes is thoroughly unseemly; be NICE to each other

[ChienFou]

AhoInu is still waiting for CrystyB's orders. I know he sometimes has connection problems so I'll give him 24 hours

[Fried Egg]

Why wait for Christian? Let's go, go, go!

You can trust me when I say that Christian told me that he wanted all his units to hold their positions this turn...

[Sparhawk]

Really? That is what he told me too! He said something about becoming a pacifist and giving up his war-like ways. He doesn't even want his troops to support each other anymore!

[AhoInu]

It is Winter Year 5. Roman A Mac decimated (no retreat squares). Rome gets two Builds asap.

Not only are you all a bunch of rapscallion warmongers, but you're liars, thieves and cheats too.

[AhoInu]

CrystyB, you're going to lose your Builds if you don't hurry up.

[AhoInu]

Rome is clearly in disorder, it took Emperor Cristian 5 days to raise 2 armies. It wasn't like that when I kept the bridge with Horatius. (and don't tempt me - I can recite most of it from memory). anyway it is Spring 06, keep rowing you slaves

[Ferris]

Moves sent in. Apologies for the delay.

[AhoInu]

It's Summer Year 6. I've emailed players for retreats

[AhoInu]

It's Fall 1906. Back to the Rowing

[AhoInu]

still waiting 2 players' orders

[Ferris]

Gah! There's me getting a guilty conscience, and it turns out I'm not the worst!

Fine 'em two fleets each, that's what I say!

[Fried Egg]

I think those who get their orders in late should forfeit one unit (at random) per day until all their units have been eliminated and they drop out of the game.

Sounds fair to me!

[mith]

Better yet, I think each late player should forfeit one unit to each of the on-time players.

[CrystyB]

so go ahead and run your own games! Why should i forfeit one unit just b/c last night (1am) i fell asleep waiting for my father to finish his work on the comp?

[Fried Egg]

Ah! so it was you, was it!

Well I definitely believe you should be penalised!

[Ferris]

He did say two players, so that leaves...

[Ferris]

...someone who's heading for a NMR situation if they've not already got their moves in.

[AhoInu]

Well all the moves are in but I've been VERY buy, so I'll do it later today (Friday evening BST). Please do try to get moves in on time, as I leave a gap in my schedules for Wednesday and Friday evening diplomacy adjudications, and (surprise, surprise) I do actually do other things than watch the GL for 20 hours a day.

[Fried Egg]

I think you should have fixed deadlines (subject to prior notification if one can't be met) and penalise the players who fail to meet them.

I remember in the Diplomacy 1 game, I was penalised by missing a turn after failing to get my moves in and I think that was fair. Why not bring back that rule?

[mith]

CF, if you are on and want to send me the moves, I could have a map up so everyone will know what's happened (But only if you send them in the next hour or so, going to meet Luna in town then.). Or you could just post them and we can work it out ourselves.

[AhoInu]

It's been my style to wait for moves, and if they're an hour or so late it's no problem (like Ferris's working day start just about coincides with midnight here). This I don't mind, but when it runs to more than about 4 hours (and is un-notified), it screws up my schedules. I think I will in future post an NMR. As for fried Egg's problem that was actually 4 days, and I did give him 24 hours. That was unfortunate, and I didn't much enjoy doing it. In particular, the AM game is the "serious" Dip game and is an invitational, and I think I will institute the rule for that. The others i don't mind as much. No problem really, but take note: Late postings for dip 3 may get you a NMR if un-notified