There are many other Diplomacy programs out there, Realpolitik for example.
You may find them easier to use.
<Medi.Guy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> I'm currently GMing a game of Diplomacy at a small social forum I
> visit. Every player is completely new to Diplomacy (making me the
> "expert," with no online and only three FtF games under my belt). As
> such, I wanted to keep players away from the computerized judges. so
> instead I had planned to use DPMapit! to generate maps for my hand-
> adjudicated decisions.
>
> The only problem is that I can't get the darned thing to work. :P
>
> Every time I attempt to generate a map, the link to the map ends up
> broken. I assume this is due to my clumsy syntax errors (indeed, a
> map does appear when I leave the box empty, though I suspect this is a
> special case.) I've attempted to read through the DPJudge
> do***entation, but I can't seem to puzzle out what, exactly, is
> necessary for instructions for DPMapit! and what isn't.
>
> If anyone could point me to an example of legitimate instructions that
> would lead to getting a map out of DPMapit, then I'd be eternally
> grateful.
>
> (Or would it be a better idea to register a real game on DPJudge, sign
> up seven fake players and feed the orders I receive through them?)
>
> -Nathaniel Rook


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