Doper Diplomacy - Fall and Winter 2002

Baby website:

http://vashon_shannon.tripod.com/bright/

For all your baby picture needs.

Wait, can someone explain how this thread can to page 15? I thought 10 was the maximum? Was there an upgrade?

No, we’re flying below the radar.

Yeah, it’s not an technological limit.

How can that ‘704’ in the ‘replies’ column on the front page of MPSIMS possibly fly under the mods’ radar screen?

I started seeing more threads with 500+ posts after the last vBulletin upgrade. (The same ‘upgrade’ that did away with automatic quote-within-quote.) I’m suspecting that the upgrade somehow made long threads more tolerable to the server, but that’s just a guess on my part.

Shh!!!

What’s that?

Pg. 16? Who’s with me?

Very cute baby! Cool t-shirt, too. Although you’ll probably have to post a link somewhere more prominently if you want more than the 5-10 die-hards who are still reading this far in to see it. We seem to have even lost Go Alien somewhere along the line.

Hello. Hello? Is this thing on? Sorry, just testing to make sure it’s still working.

Sorry guys, I had to request a delay today because my original set of orders was crap.

Unfortunately it turns out that my final set of orders was crap too so I’ve wasted all of your time for nothing. I apologize.

Weirddave also sent a note that he has all the orders now and will adjudicate later. He’s a bit under the weather.

Dave, I hope you’ll wait until the Nyquil wears off before you adjudicate.

So, is Dip 1046 still going?

Yep. And it’s down to grinding.

Here ya go, RTF, the Dip 1046 homepage.

You used to love swapping Scandanavian countries with Russia. Sweden for Norway, Norway for Sweden. It’s so lovely this time of year who can decide.

By the by, since it’s been bumped again anyway, this thread was among the most popular from 2002 (by posts, of course, not views).

Do I know a trend or what?

Yeah, and I said to not bump it.

Wait, that sounds a bit meaner than I was intending. Honestly, I was proud to have had a role, if a minor and bitchy one, in one of the largest threads of the whole year.

So, I’ve been reading my instruction book at home, and I’m eager to give this a try, but I have a few questions…
1- How do you guys keep track? Do you set up boards in your homes and play that way?

2- How does communication work? Do you e-mail each other? IM somehow? Whats the deal?

3- If I have a grasp of the rules, how likely am I going to be able to play?