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  • redrumR

    Changing How PBF Posts Are Displayed

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    @RoiEX said in Changing How PBF Posts Are Displayed: Never tried this feature, mainly because I find it useful in general. I agree that this will probably disable the code blocks for the posts, however you should keep in mind that changing this feature will probably break the whole post turn summary formatting, especially with leading whitespaces that get trimmed down using markdown. Turning off this feature actually doesn't do anything except remove the colors. The code block is still there with the scroll bars. Although I personally like it when such generic statements are in distinct code blocks, so the whole post isn't cluttered with them (seeing this a lot with stacktraces in github), I can see that the horizontal scrollbars can be really annoying without a touchpad on a laptop or a modern mouse that supports this feature natively. Developers like us like this sort of thing, logs, code, it keeps everything where it should be. Most people using TripleA are not developers. So we should take their feedback and do something different. The only alternative I can come up with right now is to maybe modify the ForumPosters to insert markdown formatting symbols before relevant positions I think this is the way to go. The great thing about Markdown is that the raw text is just as readable as the formatted text. The one thing that I ask is not to use level 1 headers because they get translated into H1 tags and multiple H1 tags on a page is generally bad for SEO. This is the example I posted on a&a .org: Round: 1 --------- ### Purchase Units - Chinese - Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open - Chinese buy 3 artilleries; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; ### Combat Move - Chinese ### Non Combat Move - Chinese - 4 infantry moved from Yunnan to Szechwan - 2 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan - 1 infantry moved from Shensi to Szechwan - 2 infantry moved from Suiyuyan to Shensi - 1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Burma ### Place Units - Chinese - 3 artilleries placed in Szechwan ### Turn Complete - Chinese - Chinese collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs - Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 16 PUs renders in to this, which is super nice Round: 1 Purchase Units - Chinese Trigger Chinese Artillery Supplies: Chinese has their production frontier changed to: productionChinese_Burma_Road_Open Chinese buy 3 artilleries; Remaining resources: 0 PUs; Combat Move - Chinese Non Combat Move - Chinese 4 infantry moved from Yunnan to Szechwan 2 infantry moved from Hunan to Yunnan 1 infantry moved from Shensi to Szechwan 2 infantry moved from Suiyuyan to Shensi 1 fighter moved from Szechwan to Burma Place Units - Chinese 3 artilleries placed in Szechwan Turn Complete - Chinese Chinese collect 10 PUs; end with 10 PUs Objective Chinese 1 Burma Road: Chinese met a national objective for an additional 6 PUs; end with 16 PUs
  • scousemartS

    PBEM error help

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    @scousemart Thanks for confirming the resolution. It's unfortunate that Hotmail doesn't indicate 2FA is enabled in the failure message, as Gmail does. It would have saved some time for your game.
  • SchulzS

    Bonus income to AI

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    I am just currently testing AI in modified version of dom 1914 NML. Only Austria and Russia had needed new factories but none of then did build new factory. AI also does not research tech. Maybe AI would buy new factory with industry tech.
  • RoiEXR

    Play by Forum without savegame?

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    @RoiEX The regular workflow of course is to add a savegame to the posting. But there are situations where you only want to post the summary, as @redrum mentioned an example for. So a solution that defaults to adding savegames offering a way to disable it would be fine, IMHO.
  • RoiEXR

    Is "Also Post after Combat Move" a commonly used PbF/PbEM Feature?

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    PantherP
    @redrum @RoiEX @Cernel Just one more aspect in this context: By the rules scrambling is the very last action happening during Combat Move Phase. So whenever combat moves will be posted in the future, there must always be room for the scrambling move before any dice are rolled. Also rocket attacks need to be kept out of the Combat Move Phase and moved to the Conduct Combat Phase instead. (see https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/3846)
  • RoiEXR

    Simultaneous PbF & PbEM

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    @redrum Yeah, changing will still be possible, I'm just intending to do some sort of Tabbing mechanism, so you don't have to deal with the "disabled" thingy
  • RoiEXR

    PBF/PBEM Settings

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    @scousemart Yes. You can open a save game in any mode (lobby, local, pbf, pbem)
  • J

    Can you play against another person over time?

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    @scousemart Thanks for your help and info. I appreciate it.
  • R

    Trouble Installing on Linux (Java issue)

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    ssoloffS
    @RoiEX I'd have assumed that the sh file would install a working java version as well if there's none on the system I believe the bundled JRE support in the installer only works for Windows x86/x86_64 and macOS.
  • S

    Resolution / Window Size

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    RoiEXR
    @schorote What would probably work as well is using nvidias technology I described earlier, might mess up your desktop a little bit, but as a workaround it's probably going to be working as well because in this case your Linux distribution thinks that only a single screen is connected.
  • SchulzS

    Rescuing the load game.

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    I have looked them before they just save my single games not lobby games on bots.
  • M

    MB banned without any reason

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    @master_blaster said in MB banned without any reason: Whats going on with you guys?(Mods) I wrote at the forum...that somebody logged in under my nick !!!There have been 2 Master_Blaster....i dont know how that commandante with all his alias has done that!!!...but as the result of your wrong programming...you ban the original master_blaster for 2 weeks? mb wants an immitiate excuse and an unban..right now....yours mb before u ban somebody...plz check his IP I've pasted the content of your post in the correct thread. Please follow the matter from there only: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/15/been-banned-complaint-or-problem-post-here/62?page=4 Locked.
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    MB banned without any reason !!!

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    @master_blaster Please, repost in here: https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/15/been-banned-complaint-or-problem-post-here Locked.
  • D

    Complex questions from a new user

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    @daudvyd said in Complex questions from a new user: @Hepps , thank you for this reply. I have a few followup questions: When will Global Dominance be available? When the stew is ready an simmering... the Global Dominance will be served in heaping bowls of delightfully complex goodness.
  • V

    T.W.W. Help

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    @redrum said in T.W.W. Help: @cmmiles Yeah, its best to set neutrals to Does Nothing, Fodder was just renamed to that to make it more clear. No: "Fodder" was renamed to "Easy". The in game manual should be updated to refer to "Easy", instead of "Fodder", albeit that may not be a good solution, as "Easy" is currently deprecated. @cmmiles You are supposed to assign those players to "Easy (AI)".
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    TWW Local (solo) Game Question

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    HeppsH
    @cmmiles As mentioned above... playing TWW vs the AI will allow you to get a feel for the game. However, since the AI does not understand how to use Combat Engineers and Materials to construct anything, the experience will not be very competitive nor will it be reflective of the challenges you are likely to encounter against a human player.
  • C

    v1 Transports Rules Questions

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    @cernel Personally I'm unaware of any A&A originals that allowed point 1. But It's been a long time since I played the board games too.
  • S

    Etiquette Question Concerning Maps

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    HeppsH
    Personally I think hijacking an active project without permission is deplorable (whether credit is given or not, although not giving any credit would be even worse) . It is the kind of behavior that can make a map maker not want to be part of this community.
  • D

    Pre releases not working

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    @dr-stein Also be sure to have the latest version of Java 8 installed on your system. Java 8 needs Vista SP2, so you could check this as well.
  • J

    1942 Global and bots

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    @panther thought so but wasn't sure if it totally met all oob rules Cool!

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  • VictoryFirstV
    VictoryFirst

    @Ozymandiaswept said:

    An unexpected error occurred! IllegalStateException: Couldn't find an account with the username ozymandiaswept in the selected forum. Please double-check: 1) The selected forum 2) The spelling of your username 3) If your account is correctly registered at the selected forum

    Lol I added that error message to the game. It is supposed to be more clear for users how to fix the problem. Did you check option 2?

    Either way, it does not matter as PBF on the TripleA server does not work at the moment. You either have to choose PBEM and manually post the turn summary as pointed out by @beelee above, or you'd have to move to the Axis and Allies forum where you can use PBF.

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    beelee

    @Ozymandiaswept

    Hi Ozzy

    Stick with us 🙂

    Some of the stuff doesn't work right now. This is how @victoryfirst taught me to do it and I have done the same ever sense. 2-3 years now and it works for me. I'm on ubuntu fwiw but everyone else on windows. Idk if you on mac will bring in ubernaut but it should work regardless.

    this should show you what to do pretty much. disregard the clutter 🙂

    https://forums.triplea-game.org/topic/4376/playbyforum-first-utrecht

    but you start pbem

    Screenshot from 2026-08-25 00-41-04.png

    make sure both emails registered to the Dice server hit register takes you here https://dice.triplea-game.org/

    Ignore all the other bullshit and fire up a game 🙂

    So select game do the email shit make sure both emails registered and o h yea hit "test server" only need to do it once at game start, then you good to go.

    Most people do a test turn in local mode then hit PBEM or Forum, they're basically interchangeable and do their final turn in pbem.

    Screenshot from 2026-08-25 00-47-19.png

    It'll say "Dice Server On "bottom right. When your turn is done you hit "Turn Summary" then ctrla ctrlc

    Screenshot from 2026-08-25 00-49-01.png

    Then save game ctrls

    post the turn sumarry and saved game to your opponent at your game thread, we create a Game Thread here https://forums.triplea-game.org/category/45/play-by-forum

    or you can send emails to each other

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    ask if you get stuck. I struggled hard trying to figure it out first time fwiw lol

    Then @victoryfirst clued me in 🙂

    Edit 2
    As far as the above error, make sure you had a capital "O" in your name. Idk but the error has it in lower case. Maybe it doesn't matter. Idk. Triplea will @ some names with upper case and then sometimes it comes up all in lower case 🙂

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  • O
    Ozymandiaswept

    Just tried to go with the forum option and created a new post under play by forum (4402).

    but when I try to Test post i received the following:

    An unexpected error occurred! IllegalStateException: Couldn't find an account with the username ozymandiaswept in the selected forum. Please double-check: 1) The selected forum 2) The spelling of your username 3) If your account is correctly registered at the selected forum

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    Ozymandiaswept

    thank you both - i guess i have been trying to setup play by email. Is that harder to do versus by forum? I guess i'm still a bit unclear with PBEM. I don't assign a nation but we agree to it informally. So if I say I'm Russia I play my turn, hit done then Germany is up. So my friend plays but I can still move stuff around - is that working as designed or somehow I set it up incorrectly? Maybe I should try the forum route. Appreciate the openness. We started playing Axis and Allies in 1986 so that kinda dates me a bit.

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