It’s a DNS problem. Looks like the NIC lost my payment for the domain. It’ll be fixed anytime today they tell me.
Yeah, suuuure. Look, we know your checks must be bouncing left and right these days, what with being unemployed and all, but we’re your friends, you don’t have to give us that song-and-dance. 
::D&R::
Bastard!
Hell, I’m still living off the cash they gave me to go away quietly!
I don’t know that I’d like to enter a game midway when I haven’t played before…
Which, I should add, sucks, because I do so want to play a game of Diplomacy!
Give in to the Dip Side, erislover, you know you want to.
You’re gonna be an addict soon enough, so you might as well get started now. 
C’mon. We’ll give you the first one free.
All the cool kids are doing it.
If all the cool kids are doing it then why are you here, Abe?
What goes “Ha Ha Ha Ha” :Thunk!:
Me, laughing my head off at that last joke.
What goes “Ha Ha Ha Ha” :Plop!:
Me, laughing my head off at that last joke.
Abe Babe, I liked the :thunk: joke better anyway.
erislover, I think it’s better for newbies to start with replacement spots. You already know you’re not just gonna get taken out right away, and you have a reasonably stable position to work with. If you don’t want to deal with taking two positions, I’d be willing to take her spot in 936. 983 is wrapping up and I’m gonna need my fix.
Speaking of 983, sorry guys. But RTFirefly, if you really wanted a draw, you’d stop taking my territories and forcing me to soldier on. You’ll be off my peninsula entirely sooner or later, I promise you that.
Oh, I want a draw; I’m just not constitutionally capable of playing for one. I’d be happy to negotiate a draw, but I won’t play for one. Period.
This is why I want to see the draw rules.
I’ve never seen anything that says, one way or the other, that we can or can’t come to the table, specify terms for a draw, and vote on those terms, rather than simply agree to a draw based on the current count of bases controlled. It seems to me that that would be part of any realistic game based on World War I and its resolution.
The official rules from the game’s succession of owners (Games Research, Parker Brothers, Avalon Hill, Hasbro) say nothing whatsoever about draws. I don’t know who does say what is said about draws, or where it is available for perusal.
I’d like my ignorance on this score cleared up. Nate?
That, my friends, falls under what I refer to as a damn good question. The draw rules have always been what they’ve been. I’m not sure it’s not something I soaked up with my Dragon magazines and suchlike.
Lemme run go ask…
Ok, I need a link that works for the games and current maps, and I need to have a bit of prep time… I’m out of town on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday! Ugh. Bad timing on my part, but in light of Lightning’s post, I think that it might not be the worst idea after all.
If everyone can give me that, then count me in.
Dragon Magazine.
Three is a magic number.
Nate, you do come up with some real blasts from the past.
If’n we’re negotiating terms for an armistace, I want the title of Generalissimo of All That I See, a car and driver, and a bathtub full of jelly beans.
But are you still holding your breath? 
I restate my willingness to draw once I can have my home countries back. While getting a fleet into the Gulf of Lyon was a mostly unforeseen boon, I’m still fairly confident that I won’t be taking any new territories.
Bingo!
From the 2000 edition rulebook…page 1.
"As soon as one of Great Power controls 18 supply centers, it is considered to have gained control of Europe. The player representing that Great Power is the winner.
However, players can end the game by agreement before a winner is determined. In this case, all players who still have pieces on the board share equally in a draw."
Emphasis mine.
You can find the rules in the online resources section at www.diplom.org.
How’s that?
FTR then, White Lightning, you would have to control the Italian home SC at the end of a Fall turn to ‘own’ them in the draw.
Hey, White Lit’nin, you wanna take the last spot in aberration? It’s down to 3 powers, you’d be getting 19 SCs ( 28 to win in aberration)