The Embassy

If a game's worth playing, it's worth playing to win.  And if a game's worth playing to win, it's going to involve cheats. I really don't get it in Diplomacy.  There are no prizes, other than honorary ones.  Yes, there are titles, maybe a cheap trophy or two, but nothing more.  So why cheat? Well, often, simply because it's possible.  There isn't really much of a challenge to cheating in online Diplomacy ... except the "getting away with it" aspect.  But, with sites using more sophisticated methods of detecting cheating, the chances of getting away with it are small. Multi-accounting This is when a player uses more than one online account in a game.  This might be at the start of the game, or it may be to get back into a game a player's been removed from.  It's usually not allowed. It's clear that having one player controlling multiple powers in a game isn't fair.  Those powers are never going to be competing against ea...

I thought it might be fun to have a look at some types of player you're likely to come across when playing  Diplomacy .  Well, OK, it's not all fun in this series... but I'll do my best. Finally, the people who really shouldn't be playing the way their playing no matter what.  Sorry, but none of the people here ought to be playing Diplomacy . The Davian Davian behaviour in animals is, basically, necrophilia.  Davian behaviour in Dip players isn't quite as strange, but it isn't great, either; it's still flogging a dead horse. There are times in Dip games where the game is over.  Usually there are two sides: sometimes it will be a Grand Alliance stopping a single player from winning; other times there may be two opposing alliances preventing each other from making progress.  The key to this situation is that, without someone doing something stupid, the game has ended.  These are deadlocked games. A Davian is a player will who refuse...