Note: The email that just went out said orders are due the 21st, but I changed it to tomorrow
Time to figure out how to submit orders! The web interface is only marginally more slick than the email one for that. But it does auto-visualize, at least.
Yeah, it could be better, but we’ll probably be used to it after a couple years
Hmm, I swear I posted a message about there being a map but it has vanished from my gitter
hmm
ok, so apparently England took too long to join and some random dude got assigned to our game lmao
I think I will have to remake the game, I just noticed apparently putting a password on the game doesn’t make it private
you have to put a password then mark it private and add a second password
or something?
lol
everyone needs to join the new game by sending a new email to dpjudge@floc.net
subject: diplomacademy
body:
JOIN <yourcountry>@diplomacademy launchacademy LAUNCHACADEMY
SIGNOFF
JOIN <yourcountry>@diplomacademy launchacademy LAUNCHACADEMY
SIGNOFF
Sorry for the mistake everyone!
friggin brits
Which of those is, like, our password that we use for our country that we should set to something else?
good question
JOIN <your_country>@diplomacademy <your_insecure_password> LAUNCHACADEMY
Wait what? What about an insecure password?
The password you use to sign up for the game (which is separate from your account level password, because of course it is, why the eff not) is submitted via plaintext.
Ery'thing up in this piece is plaintext, basically.
plain text password storage is the future
Honestly, the future is so much scarier than that. (E.g. http://www.planetbiometrics.com/article-details/i/2545/ )
Fudge.
!!
BTW that specific thing I am so confused by. Like, why do I want a password management solution that can be defeated by a high-resolution color printer?
because face recognition is so cool and new and you can brag to your friends about it
Right, but like. If someone wants to get into my sweet iPad I got for Christmas, they either need a 4-digit code or to cut off my thumb.
If someone wants to get into this facial recognition thingie, they either need to cut off my face or, y'know, print themselves a copy of any number of freely-available photos of it.
I am a big believer that not all problems are technological in nature.
I'm signing up now h/o
I'm in!
Woo
got around the mainframe?
now you can see all the plain text passwords
Looks like we are back to waiting on Britain lol
yes dan carter's password is IAMASPY
wtf. I'm confused about the password thing. I can't signin as france because I didn't provide an insecure password when I joined the game?
if you just copied what I posted, it is probably just launchacademy
why am I white and private?
Oh I see.
jk
Wait, I'm hella confused. How do I get to the interface with the map
why is this terrible
and why are we using it
because it's terrible
The map interface only flips on when all the players have signed up.
And then it's actually not all that terrible.
daveeeeeeee
@davidsports
Okay. This makes me feel slightly better. I thought I was left out :(
It was on for a little while yesterday when our seventh player got assigned to some random dude; then Dan canceled the original game and we were back to no maps.
Sorry :(
This is what the map the site generates looks like
LOL it's not your fault everything about this is super-obscure because it was designed by people who have been playing this game by snail-mail since the 70s.
haha
Bless their hearts, they try
They do alright. Before the game got canceled I played around some with submitting some orders by text.
And let me tell you, their robot is pretty smart.
It'll figure out what you mean, and if it can't, it'll tell you what you fucked up.
I direct your attention again to the ?s at this link: http://www.floc.net/dpjudge/?page=Format
@davidsports where are you?
I need you to help me fight @lorrocha
who i've heard is teaming up with @enthusiastick
LOL she's literally the only person I haven't pinged to discuss strategy yet. Sorry, @lorrocha are you feeling left out?
But at the same time, I'm getting @lorrocha to help me fight @hungryed
That will leave you wide open for my attack on you @zhumo !
damn it
not unless I use my flying crane tiger move
I am :<
I am feeling so left out
OH IS IT ON?
oh it's on gurrrl
People in the main feed are like... hey where are all those trolls that spam gitter?
Hey guys, FYI, note that the due time for your orders is 11:40pm not 11:59 as I previously said
Is there documentation about how the orders are supposed to be formatted?
I can't find it
You troll. For the umpteenth time: http://www.floc.net/dpjudge/?page=Format
Also are orders due tonight? The email said the 21st, which is a week from now.
oh
I thought it was due tonight
It said the wrong date last time, too, but Dan fixed it. @dancarter?
he's away from his comp right now I think
A CITY -> CITY ?
Or F CITY -> CITY ?
A for army, F for fleet.
Nah, brah, the deadline is next week
Boo.
:: Judge: USDP Game: diplomacademy Variant: standard
:: Deadline: S1901M Wed 21 Jan 2015 23:40 GMT
:: URL: http://www.floc.net/dpjudge?game=diplomacademy
The master (@dancarter) can change that, @lorrocha. And I vote for a deadline no later than this weekend!
Yeah, I'm down for the deadline being this sat. I am so ready for this
And by that I mean I'm probably not
I think our plan was to have a deadline on Wednesday and Sunday
Or Sunday, rather
maybe for the first one we could push it back to thursday?
as I'm dumb
but I think we should stick with Wednesday and Sunday
Do we really need that much more time to decide? I feel pretty set.
I don't.
you don't as in you need more time?
I do not require more time, and could meet the deadline if it was 7 hours from now. I know what I'm doing and have in fact already submitted my orders.
I have as well
Is anyone not ok with submitting orders by tonight?
dont' worry if not
I was planning on changing the deadline to tonight, would anyone have a problem with this?
hope no one had a problem because the deadline is now tonight at 11:59
And for our non-east coast friends
that is 11:59 eastern
LET'S GET THIS PARTY STARTED. :cake: :icecream: :tada:
MONACO IS GOING DOOOWWWWNNNNN
I am heading straight for the Americas, screw getting killed in Europe
Gonna have a party with the Americans
A+ plan
WOO ORDERS SUBMITTED GAME IS ON
And, uh. People should change their game passwords to something other than launchacademy.
shut up eben!
shhhhhh
lol
SIGNON <your_country>@diplomacademy launchacademy LAUNCHACADEMY
SET PASSWORD <your_new_insecure_password>
SIGNOFF
spies
Just send that as an email to
dpjudge@floc.net.
subject?
And that will prevent @zhumo from logging in as you and checking out what your orders for the upcoming turn are.
I believe the subject line of the email is irrelevant.
I'm going to try to log in as each of you guys with "<your_new_insecure_password>"
Seriously their email robot is surprisingly smart, provided you speak it's idiotic syntax.
Ja
DQL
Diplomacy Query Language
is it non relational?
I prefer that.
it's a combination of both
so good
that's the optimal
I just snort laughed, thanks
in my year(s) as a developer, I've found that to be best.
btw @hungryed it is Eastern Time, sorry :(