safetymonkey

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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   Hey, thanks for the kind words! I'm really glad you and your friends are enjoying the site. It's been really gratifying to see so many people enjoying our work and also to watch new players discovering the game for the first time.
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   That's an interesting bug, thanks for the heads up. I'll take a look at it during our next hack night.
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   Yeah, a FAQ has gradually been in the works and this is definitely the sort of thing we should put in there.
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   It is our understanding that there's kind of an unspoken agreement between the game copyright owners (Hasbro, who purchased Avalon Hill) and website developers that they are unlikely to interfere so long as you're not using any of
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   One of the other devs suggested you might also be referring to paradox adjudication. We use the Szykman rule.
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   For what it's worth: The namespace for Diplomacy sites is pretty homogenous. (PlayDiplomacy, WebDiplomacy, etc.) We were originally PlayDiplomacyOnline, but that didn't solve the homogenous problem and was easy to get confused wit
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   Convoy kidnapping is allowed, if that's what you're asking about. Also a fully specified convoy path is not required either.
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   Sure thing. If you would like to see what a game looks like without having to login, you can go directly to this (randomly selected) game in 1905. You can wind back the game turns using the controls at the top. http://www.backsta
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   by safetymonkey 12y ago

   Hi, I'm a dev on Backstabbr and can help answer that question. Backstabbr was written in Python and is hosted on Google App Engine. The web interface uses Django and relies pretty heavily on Bootstrap 3. (At some point we'd like t
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    Hi, I'm a dev on Backstabbr. At present the only way to access anything is to login, and the only logins we use are Google accounts. We have talked about making a demo Sandbox available to guests, but I'm not sure when we'll
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    Ah, yes. Well, I can tell you that one of the things we've talked about a fair amount recently is changing the color of displacement/retreat move orders, so that they are more visually distinguished from a regular failed move.
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    Well, our website is only partially responsive (if that's what you mean) but you can definitely use the site from any of the major phone platforms. To the best of my knowledge, none of the other online Diplomacy sites are fully playabl
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    The Sandbox is definitely where I'd recommend you start. It'll give you an immediate feel for how everything other than press works. (And the press is pretty straightforward.)
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    I'm not entirely sure what you mean by that. Could you elaborate?
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    I'm afraid so. We presently use Google exclusively for user management. For whatever it's worth, the only thing we take from your profile is your email address.
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    by safetymonkey 12y ago

    I hope you won't mind if I promote my site, http://backstabbr.com . We felt like none of the other Diplomacy sites on the Internet had a modern interface (and they weren't compatible with mobile phones) so we set out to