Diplos are boring. They take way too long and they defeat the purpose of playing Risk in the first place. To me, this game is about plowing your enemies, not playing United Nations.

That's why I don't join them, and if you don't like them, you shouldn't either.

To me, this game is about blowing your enemies

But he is right, though, don't join if you do not like.

I think everyone here got trolled by JS0223

Diplo games are a huge part of warlight and cannot be taken away

B-but you're level 11.....

Why would Fizzer ban diplomacy games? There are many people who enjoy diplomacy games, here's a solution to your problem of not liking diplomacy games, don't join diplomacy games, it's that simple .

if fizzer banned diplos then we would change their name and keep playing them

Basically, I see like 2 people out of 20 that don't agree with me. Most people in this discussion agree with me, but they're saying that others don't.

There's enough to fill multiple diplomacy games, obviously, otherwise they wouldn't be a thing.

Someone said that, and that's probably true, but the problem is while they're waiting people that don't follow the rules join and the people that like the games get mad and possibly even quit. Yesterday, in one bad game I heard someone say that they were quitting because they haven't been in a good diplomacy game in 3 days. Did you see that? That's not one good real-time game in 3 DAYS!!!

Anyway...lots of diplo games are good

Someone said that, too. If that was the case, why did that guy say they weren't in one good real-time diplomacy game in 3 DAYS?!

Diplos are boring. They take way too long and they defeat the purpose of playing RISK in the first place. To me, this game is about plowing your enemies, not playing United Nations.

That's why I don't join them, and if you don't like them, you shouldn't either.

That is the last thing I'd like to quote. It is the post I agreed with the most.

PLEASE STOP THE DIPLOMACYS!

diplo games are good

now its 3/21

Um... why don't you just make another account to clear up you blacklist problem, and then just NOT join any diplomacy games?

If you joined diplomacy games clearly intending to disregard the rules of the game, then YOU are the problem. Not the game.

Nobody forced you to join one.

Im Batman

Not to gloat, but the Diplomacy game craze was really spurred on by myself and a few others about 2 years ago. It ran away from me my close friends who controlled this. I merely used to adapt {rp} Templates to easy use within Real time. However, There used to be strong hosts, who made sure rules were followed, and it has become a gang bang. For that I apologize, but there is no way to ban them now.

Wanting to ban Diplomacy games because JS0223 doesn't feel like following the damn rules would literally be like wanting to ban girls locker rooms because JS0223 keeps getting kicked out of them for sneaking in.

The problem isn't the game, dude.

Diplos are for bozos

Your eloquence is unmatched, Pooncrew.

Still the problem. People keep saying that they don't like diplomacys but someone else does.

{rp}Julius Ceaser says he is the one who started the diplomacys. The diplomacys might have been good 2 years ago, but now they are just problems. It's just claim this, PE that. People have to start agreeing with me, that we should get diplomacy games banned before FFA games are gone!

I've only played a couple, and just recently. I don't have any problem booting someone, especially if you give them a nudge first. Everyone knows the boot times before the game begins. There is no need to ever ask the host. When I host, I expect people will keep the game moving, and generally they do.

Some small things that help...
- be friendly in public chat. No need to make the game unpleasant by being a jerk or impatient or calling PE for every little thing.
- state the expectations early. PE'ing someone for booting people is retarded, unless the host put that in the opening comments. If they did, then the expectations are set. Just go with it, or don't play that game.
- diplomacy games take longer. If you're comfortable with that then you need not let impatience create frustration. Most of us play a few games at a time because we know people wait until boot times, go on vacation, etc.
- diplomacy is what makes some games great. One of the great games of the past was called Diplomacy and the whole point was to try to out-politic everyone else. The icon for this game has a guy with a knife in his back, or sometimes, two guys shaking hands while holding knives behind their backs. It's being friends without being friends. It makes for a great challenge.
- read the rules / comments before joining games.
- and finally, who cares if you're black-listed. It just means that you won't have to play with people that you probably don't get along with anyway. There are plenty of fish in this sea.

...hope that was fair and true.
-Scotty

Here's a wiki with info and links to Diplomacy and variants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy_%28game%29

...also, I think Batman made a good point.

Scotty, you are a much more reasonable mind than JS0223. :-)