Hi England! I don't think we really have anything to talk about yet, but, best of luck! Hi Austria! Agreed there's not a ton to talk about in the short term,. I'd would like to ask, though, how relations with russia and germany are looking for you. And best of luck to you as well! Haven't heard from either of them yet, but when I do, I'll let you know. Sounds good! So you built F LON and France built F BRE, eh? Trouble in paradise? Haha yeahhh. France is the worst. He tried to tell me it was to protect against italy. Working with italy and germany to stave off france is the goal. But germany is annoyed at me taking denmark. Maybe france and germany are collaborating now. France needs to go though Hi. Congrats on toppling Turkey! We should have a chat about Russia before our Spring moves. Whatcha thinking? Well, we obviously can't help one another directly, but we're both bordering the most powerful country on the board by supply center count. Indeed, and we're both in position to aim at whittling that count down. Which I'm gonna do. It's somewhat on us to contain russia. I'd rather us both put pressure on Russia than you put pressure on Italy or I put pressure on Germany. Italy and I are pretty solid, so, Russia is next. Great. I'll be fighting against france as well, so I may only be able to hold Russia off in the north. Whatever you can do, it'll be appreciated. Are you and Italy still good after the surprise in Trieste? I'm... Not happy with him. Us being good, well, that depends on what he builds. Yeah that will be interesting to see. That move actually makes me nervous about collaboration with France. There was a guessing game about where to provide support if he wanted a supply center. Maybe the bump in Spain was arranged. Yeah, who knows. Looks like you're sitting pretty with regards to Russia. Will be curious to see where the disbands come from. Hi. There's some stuff we should talk about. Whatcha got in mind? I'm slightly concerned about this being kept confidential. Can you agree to keep what I say confidential regardless of what I say? (obviously only talking in-game stuff, not about to confess to a murder or something) Absolutely. What's up? 1) Italy is telling us both that we’re his true long-term ally. 2) Italy is the highest-rated player on playdiplomacy.com . I don’t think either of those things are necessarily relevant this year, but I wanted you to be aware. Ahaaaa, good to know. Also, if I'm going to weaken the Russian line to let you in, we'll need to come to some agreements first. Whatcha got in mind? Nothing this Spring, so don't worry about anything last second. I'll message back after we see the moves. Sounds good. I haven't done all the math yet. Does he have a guarantee to hold Rum? That was messier than I expected. I don't believe he does. I've got quite a few on it, and the ability to cut a lot of supports. You'll need to coordinate with Italy to do the bounce in Ser to prevent the retreat there, but yeah I think you're right. Scratch that, Italy's not in Tri anymore. Yeah, and I'm retreating to Ser. Thing I gotta worry about is that Boh army walking into Vienna. Oh yeah, I should be paying more attention. Actually I should probably be sleeping. Yeah that's a risk. Sleep is a good idea, I'm heading that way myself. This weekend was great but very tiring. (Btw italy claims he is not, in fact, the highest rated player on playdiplomacy.com, and that this is just a rumor made up by France. But his username does happen to be the same. Not that any of this is that important, but it’s interesting) Looks like we might have a common enemy in italy. Sorry about the stab there. Reply all to Italy's message: First, if you didn't get a message from Italy claiming to have been sent to the whole board, please let me know. I'm down for the draw that he has proposed. I'd also like to add that I'll be checking the "Adjudicate once all powers have issued orders" box. If everyone does this maybe we don't have to wait until Sunday night to have this resolved! I'm not so confident as to issue a hold for all of my units, but will be submitting for the 5-way draw. Really enjoyed playing with you all, but I'm exhausted and ready to finish and see the stats. I got it, I'm in for the draw. So, did you veto the draw? No. If you’re asking everybody this, can you let me know what you hear back? I texted the admin to see if 1) draw settings are somehow disabled and 2) if 1909 is still going to be the last year. Part of me thinks maybe italy is turning down the draw. Make people think the game is over and then still try to scoop up centers I have, in fact, asked everyone. Thus far, Russia and Germany say they didn't veto. Yeah. I honestly don’t think it’s out of the question that draws are disabled (though i don’t know the site well enough to know whether this would be obvious to us i.e. draw settings disabled). But like if you’re running a study and want to get data, maybe you make it so people can’t end the game early and get their $25 right away. I *think* it would be obvious? Also, actually, the option to disable draws is very new. Let me look and see if they tweeted about when it was introduced, as compared to when the game started. Looks like the game was created just after the option was instituted, so maybe it's in place? I think it would probably be more obvious it was enabled, however. Yeah. Well, I’ll let you know when I hear back from the admin. I feel like italy is the only one with the incentive to not draw. If everyone gets lazy on their moves, he can try to keep scooping up centers. Well, best of luck holding on through 1910. Seems like you'll make it as long as russia is a friend.