Hello Everyone Just checking in to see what's going on. I was involved with many Payola games so I do have some history left in my email. Doug Gray...
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dippouch@...
May 1, 2000 2:47 pm
Hello, everyone: I am just back from the hospital today. I notice that my home page is back the way it was, but I have not yet checked anything else. I...
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Frank Mayer
frank.mayer@...
May 1, 2000 3:57 pm
... Hi Manus, Sorry to hear you were in the hospital. I hope whatever it was its over now. As for Dpjudge you can probably confirm yourself that attempts to ...
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dippouch@...
May 1, 2000 4:14 pm
When the DPjudge starts working again, the state of things will be as of 1 February. I will go game by game and ask each game what they want to do: (a)...
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dippouch@...
May 1, 2000 4:20 pm
I now have access to the starship.python.net account and am putting the DPjudge back together and up. As I said, the state of the games will be as of Feb. 1....
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dippouch@...
May 1, 2000 5:00 pm
And all the games are in their Feb 1 state. Some games that are FORMING are now started. Some games that have started are obviously further along and may have...
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dippouch@...
May 1, 2000 5:01 pm
I still can't seem to get e-mail at manus@.... Nothing new comes into my mailbox. So we still have some hurdles. Looking into that one.... Manus...
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Frank Mayer
frank.mayer@...
May 1, 2000 5:59 pm
... Hi Manus, fyi i started an action to collect status data on who is playing in what games. the action never got very far though, as few players responded, ...
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manus@...
May 1, 2000 7:54 pm
Maybe no one would ever notice, but while the DPjudge was down and out, I updated the DPjudge code to use some new features of the underlying Python language...
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Don Hessong
DonHessong@...
May 2, 2000 5:46 pm
I have created a five-player Diplomacy variant called The Ancient Mediterranean. If you are interested, check out the following URL. ...
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manus@...
May 2, 2000 5:59 pm
Okay, here is what I need from those of you out in DPjudge (waiting) land: Copies of the missing RESULTS MAILINGS for all games you have. Check the DPjudge...
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Frank Mayer
frank.mayer@...
May 2, 2000 6:16 pm
looks enticing, Don. You may also be interested in looking at Classical Variant, which is very similar and has already been subject to play testing and...
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manus@...
May 2, 2000 7:35 pm
If anyone is interested enough in Don's variant, it is of course something the DPjudge can handle. Just write me a "Manusized" mapit map and a DPjudge .map...
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Simon
diplomacy@...
May 2, 2000 8:30 pm
... Don, This looks pretty interesting. It reminds me alot of Classical, but without the slow start that classical suffers from (Classical is a similar size...
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manus@...
May 3, 2000 8:13 pm
... manus@... ... Yes, it matters. I would *GREATLY* prefer if you could send them to me the same way I sent them to you, though packaging all the LIKE...
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manus@...
May 3, 2000 11:29 pm
So far, two of the 35 games have been completely restored and restarted! Yay! The DPjudge is currently (at least temporarily) e-mailable only at: ...
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manus@...
May 4, 2000 11:18 pm
You can now mail the dpjudge at dpjudge@..., just like the good old days. FYI, manus-dpjudge@... also works and will continue to work. ...
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Derek Pillie
dpillie@...
May 5, 2000 5:16 pm
Now that the DPJudge is up for gameplay, I was wondering if you wanted us to try starting up new games as well... I'm ditching trachtenberg and starting over...
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Don Hessong
DonHessong@...
May 7, 2000 7:15 pm
Last week I posted my new five-player Diplomacy variant, The Ancient Mediterranean. I was pleased with the response I got. Thanks for the suggestions and...
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manus@...
May 8, 2000 8:05 pm
DPjudge addicts: Thanks again for your patience during the downtime for the various games. Just thought I would give this discussion group something to...
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beduewer@...
May 8, 2000 8:16 pm
... <clip> This all sounds like a very good idea to me. A lot of work, and not necessarily as much immediate coolness factor as some of the items I've been...
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Tarzan
tarzan_monkeyman@...
May 8, 2000 8:25 pm
... Wow, I think I suggested exactly this idea like 2 years ago. I'm glad that ... I agree. That person will be blacklisted from ALL judges. I suppose we...
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manus@...
May 8, 2000 8:26 pm
Oh, one other thing about the DPPD (which Bruce's mail reminded me about). The e-mail which you use when registering at the DPPD can NOT be a freemail...
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manus@...
May 8, 2000 8:31 pm
Also following up on Bruce's post, he's right that the central database concept means that the database has to be pretty solid. However, if the DPPD goes down,...
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Tarzan
tarzan_monkeyman@...
May 8, 2000 8:31 pm
... Hmmm, I'm not sure about this. For example, I use a freemail re-router. That is, I have a "real" E-Mail account (AoL, Earthlink, etc...) but I routinely...
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Derek Pillie
dpillie@...
May 8, 2000 8:37 pm
... Well, here's the problem for folks like myself that tend to migrate between jobs... my freemail account is my best way to get mail. I have an account with...
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Simon
diplomacy@...
May 8, 2000 8:40 pm
... I don't know if your interested in getting any help with this, but if you are I'd be happy to lend a hand. ... These, I like, alot. Scoring system wise,...
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Tim Stallmann
fenris.geo@...
May 8, 2000 8:41 pm
Definitely too restrictive. While I don't want to enter into a debate about teenagers being the ruin of online diplomacy, there are a lot of teenagers who are...
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manus@...
May 8, 2000 8:45 pm
... Yes, our great minds have thought alike for a long time, haven't they. ... Well, I said it was a taste of the future. I won't say how FAR into the future...
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hamilton@...
May 8, 2000 8:49 pm
I like the idea of a sponor tree. I provides a way of making people accountable for there actions, and when somebody is cheating, you can ask the sponser...
