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  • Squeezing Premium Membership on Playdiplomacy

    Playdiplomay has two tiers of membership. You can play for free there, which is great. Alternatively, you can pay for Premium membership or Premium credits. Premium membership and credits give you more options than standard membership, as I guess you’d expect. I’ll come to what they are below. But first… Why Premium membership? For some…

  • webDip’s Lack of Mistakes

    Isn’t it ironic, don’t you think? One of the issues I have with webDip is that you’re not allowed to make a mistake with your orders. That, in itself, is a mistake. webDip’s ordering system is click and select, as is Playdip’s. I think Playdip have an alternative ordering system but I’ve never wanted to…

  • Playdiplomacy’s Scoring System

    My previous post looked at webDiplomacy’s scoring system and I promised, as part of the post, that I’d be looking at both webDiplomacy and Playdiplomacy, specifically the bits that I feel are not as good as they could/should be. So now I’m moving onto Playdip’s system of scoring games. Ratings not scoring Playdiplomacy uses a…

  • webDiplomacy’s Scoring Systems

    webDiplomacy is one of the top Diplomacy sites in terms of numbers. It has a lively forum – much improved over recent years, since it adopted the phpBB forum structure. It has a lot going for it, including a membership that doesn’t seem to put up with the abuse that was pretty much unchecked on…

  • Cheating – Really!?!

    If there’s one thing that I – and everyone else who enjoy online Diplomacy – find difficult to understand it’s cheating. The thing with online Diplomacy is that there are no prizes of any sort. There’s nothing to be gained from cheating except – assuming you’re smart enough to cheat and win a game –…